HARLEY-DAVIDSON PAN AMERICA

WOULD YOU EVER HAVE thought Harley-Davidson would produce an adventure touring motorcycle? No, neither would I! However, Harley has been going through a big change at the moment and while continuing with their core product – cruisers, they’ve been dipping their feet into other segments – electric, sports (which you’ll read about soon) and the all-new Pan America adventure tourer.

For the launch we headed off to Kiama for a blast through some twisty bitumen, then a bit of maintained dirt roads, a play at a farm on a grass track and some more bitumen back to Kiama. In short, Harley-Davidson has done an amazing job at producing a mighty fine adventure bike – hard to believe, but you better believe it, Harley is aiming at the top of the tree and while that tree is pretty tall they’re already a long way up it.

Harley split the launch into three groups over a number of days – first up were the ‘softer’ group of journos (sorry, Boris), second were the ‘so-called’ hipsters and whatever you LAUNCH want to call those types and finally the third group which I was in was the ‘hardcore’ group – dirt bike mags and those that can actually ride a bike to its potential. Putting us last, maybe they thought we were going to send all