BILL WERNER

ith giant riding talents Gary Scott, Jay Springsteen, and Scott Parker (remember people calling him “the Parker kid?”), Harley-Davidson factory mechanic Bill Werner orchestrated 13 AMA Grand National dirt track championships. Then as an encore, he created a new winning machine by implementing his knowledge in the form of the Kawasaki Ninja-650-based machines that rose up to successfully challenge the Harley-Davidson XR-750s long before Indian re-entered the series in 2016. The easy accessibility of Ninja 650 parts and know-how has made those machines the most numerous in the American Flat Track paddock—Werner’s originalcreation has become “power to the people.” Just as Rob