michael_dinwiddy
Club Member
In late 2021 @Roach, my son Simon and I popped over the France to enjoy a weekend at the Opale Harley days Rally.
It was a well organised Hoggie doo, and a particularly abundant with all a biker needs for a fun packed few days.
The Harley stand was bristling with the new range of bikes, big twins Sportsters with their new Revolution Max engine, and right in the middle of the display was the new Pan America adventure bike.
Im my view Harley-Davidson have always made adventure bikes, this one was very different .. I had read about it, the new powerful engine, the adaptive suspension and the distinct geometry of the integral engine and frame that enables the bike to be a fast long range good handling tourer bike and that could take on serious enduro off road conditions.
I climbed onto it, it was too tall to sling my leg over, and at that point I just wanted one, even though I hadn’t even stabbed the starter button.. my mind was made up.
I became more and more obsessed by them… and my Club mates put up with my constant rambling about them…
Fast forward to the Wobbler Rally 2023, and @stevetrow called me following Monday morning “I bought one” he said
a few days later he threw me the keys and he jumped on my Roadking.. We blasted down the meet at Shaftsbury.. f’in hell what a bike… I thought the speedo was in kilometres.. ooops it wasn’t.
The not long after that @Mark Hammond got his, same story he was very impressed.
So I had a bit of something put away from a previous life… and as @Chris Mills wirds rang in my ears saying to me, “you cant take it with you, cash it in and get the bike”…
So I did, and mailed every Harley dealer in the UK…
Bingo, the 2023 UK press bike was just about to become available.. the deal was done.. and it arrived today..
First pic is in France
the day I fell for it.
It was a well organised Hoggie doo, and a particularly abundant with all a biker needs for a fun packed few days.
The Harley stand was bristling with the new range of bikes, big twins Sportsters with their new Revolution Max engine, and right in the middle of the display was the new Pan America adventure bike.
Im my view Harley-Davidson have always made adventure bikes, this one was very different .. I had read about it, the new powerful engine, the adaptive suspension and the distinct geometry of the integral engine and frame that enables the bike to be a fast long range good handling tourer bike and that could take on serious enduro off road conditions.
I climbed onto it, it was too tall to sling my leg over, and at that point I just wanted one, even though I hadn’t even stabbed the starter button.. my mind was made up.
I became more and more obsessed by them… and my Club mates put up with my constant rambling about them…
Fast forward to the Wobbler Rally 2023, and @stevetrow called me following Monday morning “I bought one” he said
a few days later he threw me the keys and he jumped on my Roadking.. We blasted down the meet at Shaftsbury.. f’in hell what a bike… I thought the speedo was in kilometres.. ooops it wasn’t.
The not long after that @Mark Hammond got his, same story he was very impressed.
So I had a bit of something put away from a previous life… and as @Chris Mills wirds rang in my ears saying to me, “you cant take it with you, cash it in and get the bike”…
So I did, and mailed every Harley dealer in the UK…
Bingo, the 2023 UK press bike was just about to become available.. the deal was done.. and it arrived today..
First pic is in France
the day I fell for it.
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for organising it.. Reps and Assistant Reps from both regions.
