expect : crusty but thoroughly well sorted Shovelheads and Panheads . The balance of the group understood the challenge ahead of them and wisely chose to ride a fleet of Pan America ADV bikes on loan from the Motor Company . The mechanical juxtaposition might have proven comical if the old bikes laid down like most folks predicted , given the treacherous circumstances . The truth is , only one chopper returned in The Pig ' s cargo box , and not even a broken generator shaft could stop Bill and his trusty Panhead from
' ride motorcycles , have fun '
traversing mud and tundra well inside the Arctic Circle . The rest of Team Numbnuts , and especially the lone female rider Kalen Thorien , who rode all the way from Florida via Sturgis on her personal Pan Am before joining the group in Washington , enjoyed the trip of a lifetime aboard Harley ' s supremely capable ADV machine . Bravo , Milwaukee ! Aboard that incongruous mix of vintage V-twin and modern Harley iron , Biltwell friends and co-workers finally got to witness the mystery and
majesty of the Northern Lights on their last evening inside the Arctic Circle . ' The Pig ' valiantly covered the vast majority of Biltwell ' s 3,500-mile adventure under its own steam , but Yeti had to rely on a Canadian wrecker jockey to drag his defeated monster truck across the US border . Despite everything - the blown motors , bear scat , wolf tracks , skeptical locals , broken generators , dead batteries , short tempers and long days - no one in Biltwell ' s motley band of bike riders spent an evening in jail or hospital . If that seems >>
56 AFTERMARKET MOTO DESIGN - NOVEMBER 2022 www . AMDchampionship . com