If you’re a fan of vintage-meets-modern custom motorcycles, you’ll definitely appreciate the latest reveal from Indian Motorcycle’s FORGED Series, featuring Brittney Olsen’s take on a 2025 Indian Scout. 

Brittney Olsen, of 20th Century Racing, was asked by this year’s FORGED host, Roland Sands, of Roland Sands Design, to be one of three to customize a brand-new Indian Scout. Brittney eagerly obliged and was inspired by the legendary two-wheeled trailblazer, Cecilia Adams, to build a bike for country singer, Nikki Lane. 

Brittney is a vintage motorcycle aficionado. She builds and races old iron of all shapes and sizes, but she’s definitely no stranger to old Indian motorcycles. When Roland selected Brittney to build a new Indian Scout, we were excited to see where she’d take it. Her tribute to Cecilia Adams that ended up in the loving arms of its new owner, Nikki Lane, hit the proverbial nail on the head. 

“Nikki’s Scout is so on-point to what Cecilia Adams’ bike was because her bike was fully custom,” Brittney said. “Nikki’s bike is fully custom, from the front to the back, there wasn’t anything we didn’t touch. It is 100 percent representative of the entire movement, not only Cecilia Adams, but all of the women Sport Scout riders in the ‘50s.” 

Well, Brittney and Roland flew out to Nashville to meet up with Nikki and deliver her new motorcycle, which would of course include a shakedown ride. 

Upon seeing the new “old” Indian Scout, Nikki was blown away by what Brittney and Roland presented her with. “This is insane!” Nikki said. “I did not know how you were going to make this look old.”

Brittney paid attention to every bit of the motorcycle, making it all flow together seamlessly, naturally. “Every bit of the motorcycle, the frontend to the handlebars, to the seat, fender, everything has been played with and touched,” Brittney said. 

Brittney did quite a lot with this build, crafting a custom one-off girder frontend by hand for Nikki’s Scout, which features two springs and a shock unlike the traditional single-spring Sport Scouts. In fact, Brittney blended Chief parts into the frontend to get the front suspension just right. Brittney also incorporated some Flanders style bars, and a custom tank which incorporates more Chief parts by way of the iconic teardrop Chief tank sides that she morphed into the Scout center tunnel to keep the GPS and other modern Scout wiring harnesses and gauge components intact. 

“I know it took a lot of work and I’m really excited because I’m going to put a lot of miles on it,” Nikki says.

After the maiden voyage, both Brittney and Nikki were grinning ear to ear. “Seeing Nikki on the bike, and how good she looks on the bike and seeing how it fits her personal style as well, it’s a huge honor for me,” Brittney says. 

After seeing the reveal of Nikki’s new Scout and the meeting of Brittney and Nikki together, you can tell it was kismet that their worlds collided. Brittney’s build of Nikki’s new Scout couldn’t have been built by a better candidate.

“I survived 10 years of playing music before we were profitable by selling vintage and sharing those stories of finding things in a bin outside a flea market on our way across the country, and it just became a little bit of an addiction for me,” Nikki says.

Nikki’s love for two wheels runs in the family. Her dad was a motocross rider and her mom was a pit tootsie known as Hurricane Hannah who used to change Nikki’s dad’s tearaways on dirt bike trails. 

Nikki, who found motorcycles on her own after moving back to Tennessee says she’s not good at meditating and that motorcycles help provide that. “It takes me to another place mentally,” Nikki says. “It allows me to free up my mind, look around in a different way, and getting away from this busy life you can tell that we have going on here.” 

The 2025 Indian Scout was designed with customization in mind, and the all-new cruiser is a bike born from icons and ridden by legends. Each build in this sophomore effort of the Forged Series is rooted in a historical figure, machine, or era of inspiration taken from Scout’s 100-plus-year history – highlighting icons of the past, through the eyes of today’s legends.

We’re excited to see the final reveal of Ronna’s Scout coming soon so stay tuned! 

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Special Components:
Custom Laced 18” FTR rim to stock Scout rear hub 

• Custom Laced 19” FTR rim to stock Scout front hub 
• Custom hand built girder front end with factory textured powder coat to match stock frame
• Incorporated real 1946 to 1948 Indian Chief springs, shock and risers on girder font end
• Modified stock Scout gas tank using stock Springfield Chieftain tank panels to get the original Indiansport scout teardrop shape. We kept the top and bottom tunnel ram of the stock Scout gas tanks to keep the stock fuel pump, air intake box and the stock Scout GPS panel that originally came stock. 
• Factory Chrome Dash GPS unit cover (not sure what this is called but it came stock with black dash originally)
• Custom underseat frame cover
• Custom made seat mounts
• Custom vintage bates seat and rear fender pad
• Extended rear subfender
• Custom black paint job 
• Custom Lettering, Striping and Gold and Silver leaf done by Jeremy Pederson
• Hand built Struts for the rear end
• Custom license plate mount
• Factory Mid controls
• Custom longer brake line
• Custom stainless exhaust
• Custom front turn signals
• Custom stainless steel bars
• Custom gauge/counsel relocation 
• Custom hand built rear subfender panels
• Polished exhaust, gage mount and handlebars