Many individuals know Josh Dun because the dynamic drummer from the Grammy Award-winning duo Twenty One Pilots, a band that redefined fashionable music with electrical sound and electrifying performances. Nonetheless, few are conscious of one other facet of this multi-talented musician – His deep-seated love for bikes.
Collaborating in Indian Bike’s FORGED customized construct program, Dun was the recipient of an all-new, customized 2025 Indian Scout that was constructed and designed from famend bike builder Roland Sands and Roland Sands Design (RSD).
Indian Bike understands that true artistry extends past the stage, which is why they tapped Roland Sands and RSD to create this one-of-a-kind bike for Josh Dun. Sands is a well known motorbike designer, having constructed bikes for celebrities like Mickey Rourke and Weeman, amongst many others. He’s additionally a former professional racer, so he’s eager on constructing machines that go, cease and deal with, as a lot as they appear badass.
Revealed within the video above, we see Roland Sands and his fabricator Aaron Boss current this rowdy bike to its new proprietor Dun. For the primary construct of this yr’s FORGED customized collection, Boss and Sands introduced their imaginative and prescient to life for a high-performance machine impressed by the legacy of first-ever Daytona 200 winner Ed “Iron Man” Kretz. A streetable west-coast efficiency cruiser with racing cues and parts all through.
The primary of three creations by famend builders creating distinctive customs across the all-new Indian Scout platform, the RSD Indian Scout is a testomony to that which Roland Sands Design does finest, taking cruisers and turning them into high-performance bikes.
“What makes an RSD bike is taking a machine and elevating it. We’ve all the time taken cruisers and made them into sport bikes. This bike has that RSD silhouette, however the cool factor was how simple it was to make the brand new Scout match the RSD mould,” stated Roland Sands.
Every FORGED construct is rooted in a historic determine, machine, or period of inspiration taken from Scout’s storied 100+ yr historical past, RSD chosen Ed “Iron Man” Kretz because the inspiration for his or her construct. Along with his perspective of by no means giving up, and as a builder of many high-performance Indian Bike race bikes, the RSD workforce felt a pure affinity with Kretz.
“It was like, nicely, OK, what would Ed construct as we speak? A rowdy race bike,” Sands commented.
Bringing the ‘Iron Man’ racing spirit to the 2025 Sport Scout, RSD took benefit of their huge expertise of creating Scout and FTR flat monitor racers to construct a efficiency avenue bike Kretz can be happy with.
For enhanced trip and dealing with, the Sport Scout’s entrance finish was tailored and upgraded to FTR entrance forks and triple clamps with high-performance braking achieved with the change to twin discs and radial-mount Brembo brake calipers. Equally, the rear finish was modified to simply accept an FTR swingarm mated to Indian piggyback shocks and a Brembo rear caliper. Connecting the efficiency suspension and braking to the road, the RSD Scout now runs on 17-inch wheels by RSD Dymag with stickier Dunlop Sportmax Q5s rubber permitting the total potential of the upgrades to be exploited.
Aaron Boss stated, “From there, it’s somewhat little bit of this and somewhat little bit of that resembling modifying the entrance fairing to hook onto the brand new forks and modifying the inventory foot controls for a extra avenue bike driving place. With the engine dialled in from the manufacturing facility already, I fabricated a full customized titanium exhaust, and the premise of the tail was the unique design of RSD’s flat monitor tail for earlier era Scouts. However we’ve amped it up with new sides and an undertail tire hugger.”
Completed with customized seat from Saddlemen and a daring black and yellow coloration scheme, there was one final contact in dedication to Ed Kretz. Staring defiantly again from underneath the tail is the picture of Sylvester the cat that the workforce discovered within the archives on Kretz’s enterprise card throughout the first episode of the collection.
Comparatively new to the world of bikes, Dun had beforehand ridden an FTR and had chosen an Indian Scout Bobber for his first bike.
“Strolling into that bike store for the primary time, I used to be just about a clean canvas. by way of like, what’s my type? What do I like? So I walked round, checked out every little thing and narrowed it down to 2 bobber-style bikes. Finally, I used to be similar to, it’s gotta be the Indian Scout.”
On first seeing the RSD Scout, Dun was instantly impressed. “Wow. This factor’s good. The colours are good. This complete factor is sensible. 100% it’s a motorbike I’d personally personal. How do you design a motorbike that makes you’re feeling like a badass? I believe that’s the components proper there.”
Roland Sands and RSD completely knocked it out of the park with this unhealthy boy, and I can’t wait to see what they do for the subsequent one!
