Harley-Davidson Pan America Enters the ADV Scene - How’s That Going to Pan Out?

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🗓️ 1 April 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Harley-Davidson has announced the Pan America, an “adventure touring” motorcycle which is projected to be released in May, 2021. There’s been mixed reactions amongst the adventure motorcycle community, as Harley-Davidson has traditionally been known for big and loud bikes. We went to Harley-Davidson and to industry expert Tim Calhoun to get some of our biggest questions answered including what’s behind the thought process of the Harley-Davidson breaking in to the adventure motorcycle market with the new Pan America? What can we expect from this new adventure touring bike? Will the adventure motorcycling community embrace the Pan America and are we even willing to give it a chance? More motorcycle travel episodes available on Adventure Rider Radio at adventureriderradio.com. Want to help out? Subscribe, rate and review us on iTunes or on your favourite podcast app, tell your family, friends, riding buddies or club about ARR. Adventure Rider Radio is a listener supported show and we'd love to get your help. Please check us out on Patreon. Have a comment? Go to the episode show notes on our website and have your say at the bottom of the page. Thanks for listening!

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0:00.0	Well, no doubt you've heard at least something about Harley-Davidson's entry into the adventure
0:07.4	motorcycle community with their new motorcycle, the Pan America.
0:12.0	Now, we don't normally cover new models on this show normally but this isn't just a new model.
0:18.0	This is a brand new company to our market and Harley-Davidson has not ever been associated with the venture
0:24.4	motorcycling and certainly hasn't been associated with any sort of dirt
0:26.9	riding for many many many years. So just what does this mean to us in the
0:32.4	ADV community?
0:34.0	Why is Harley coming on board now?
0:36.0	What are their plans?
0:37.0	And how might this whole thing affect us even if we're not
0:40.0	riders of Pan America motorcycles or Harley-Davidson adventure bikes.
0:44.0	Well, we wanted to talk to people who know.
0:46.0	So we called up Harley-Davidson themselves.
0:49.0	We got the chief engineer of the Pan-American project
0:52.0	and their PR manager.
0:55.0	Both have been with Harley for a long time now,
0:57.5	and both have their heart on the pulse of the Pan America Project.
1:01.6	To get an outside view of what this means to our industry, we have
1:05.6	industry insider and Power Sports Professional Tim Calhoun. Tim's been on the
1:10.6	show before. He's on the board of directors for the Motorcycle Industry Council
1:14.8	and is the chairperson for the Aftermarket Committee at the MIC. He's also the vice president of sales for Quinn Helmets.
1:21.8	All that coming up today, my name is Jim Martin. This is
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