Roland Sands Designs

RSD Workshop Manager Aaron Boss, Twenty One Pilots drummer Josh Dun and ex-AMA 250 GP champion and RSD founder Roland Sands with a new Indian Scout that's been crossed with the FTR1200 for Indian's Forged custom series

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Roland Sands crosses an Indian Scout with an FTR for rockstar Josh Dun

We're in Long Beach, California, at the expansive workshop/museum of Roland Sands Design, for the reveal of a fascinating fusion of two motorcycles – an Indian Scout crossed with an FTR1200 flat tracker, built for Josh Dun, of Twenty One Pilots.

A longer set of forks, taken from Indian's own FTR1200, have been re-sprung and re-valved for the bike

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Interview: Roland Sands builds "Challenger RR" race cruiser for Indian

The bizarre "King of the Baggers" race plans to pit giant cruisers from Harley and Indian against each other at Laguna Seca. Tuner Roland Sands is race-prepping a Challenger for this crazy event, and we caught up for a very fun chat about it.

Roland Sands has spent three and a half months turning the BMW R18 into a dragster

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Roland Sands builds a straight-line dragster out of the BMW R18

AMA 250GP national champion racer Roland Sands has been taking perfectly good motorcycles and engoodening them further for 20-odd years. Now, he's turned his attentions to BMW's giant boxer cruiser, giving the R18 a hardtail dragster treatment.

RSD BMW R NineT Classic: looks the goods as a retro roadster, but still wheelies like the 110-horsepower beast it is.

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Roland Sands takes BMW's retro bike waaaaaay back to the 1930s with the R NineT Classic

Taking inspiration from 1930s-era classic Beemers, Roland Sands has had another crack at overhauling BMW's massively successful retro roadster. The RSD R NineT Classic is a distinctive looker that goes as hard as any of Sands' customs.

XDiavel by Roland Sands: a subtle California twist on an Italian-American design by Ducati

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Roland Sands gives the Ducati XDiavel a California-style makeover for Sturgis 2016

For this year's Sturgis rally, Ducati teamed up with West coast custom builder Roland Sands to put a Californian twist on the Italian-American XDiavel cruiser. The result: this sexy, swoopy and nicely detailed design that gives the XDiavel a classic twist without straying too far from the original.