Despite what people who've never ridden one may think, they're not at all like a car with two wheels.
Riding an Indian, any motorcycle really, involves your body and mind in ways that no car ever has, can, or will. A car takes you places with minimal impact on the senses. A bike involves all your senses, all the time.
You drive a car the way people in the 19th century drove a buggy. Skilled buggy drivers could use a set of reins, vocal commands, and occasionally a whip to make the horse turn, speed up, slow down, and stop just about as effectively as a good driver can use a steering wheel, gas pedal, and brake for the same purposes. But the operative word with both buggy and car is "drive."
On a motorcycle -- as on a saddle horse -- the operative word is "ride." Whereas driving can frequently be done in a passive, detached manner, a motorcycle dema ...