VOLUME ISSUE SEPTEMBER , P117
ture…" "...Every type of terrain…"
That's so, is it? Well, go ahead
and prove it.
Introduced in something of
a one-off demonstration race
at last year's Sturgis TT, this
season the class expanded to
a four-race championship that
played out in under two weeks.
The compact series threw the
bikes at a more diverse set of
venues than '24's Supermoto-
style course set in the streets
of Sturgis, consisting of the
Jackpine Gypsies Motorcycle
Club's diminutive Short Track
(twice), the same venue's hybrid
TT circuit, and rounding out at
the iconic Peoria TT.
Over these four events, the
collective braggadocious bro
-
chure claims of the manufactur-
the Friday before the race while
en route to Sturgis. Even the
official Triumph Racing effort re-
trieved their Triumph Tiger 900
GT Pros from a Sturgis dealer-
ship and didn't start making the
few modifications allowed until
they arrived at the Rally.
The teams and riders hap
-
pily leaned into this fact, and
perhaps counterintuitively, the
very ordinary state of the bikes
proved to be the secret ingredi-
ent in a burgeoning status as a
modern-day myth maker.
Dual adventure motorcycles
are commonly advertised as do-
anything machines with market-
ing jargon that is mirrored from
manufacturer to manufacturer:
"...Go anywhere and every
-
where…" "...Up for any adven-
that reality. The Walter Bros.
Harley-Davidson Pan America
1250 came direct from their
Peoria showroom and was even
run up from the track to the lo-
cal gas station to refuel at one
point. OTB Racing scored their
BMW F 900 GSs from a dealer
(Above) Dan Bromley came armed
with a Suzuki V-Strom 1050 that
his dad, Joe Bromley, acquired on
Facebook Marketplace for $7000.
Dan went on to win the first-ever AFT
AdventureTracker Championship.
(Right) Jesse Janisch competed
in the AFT AdventureTracker
Championship on a Harley-Davidson
Pan America 1250. "What we're
doing on these things is pretty
ridiculous. Weird part was that they
raced really, really well."
