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FEATURE I AMERICAN FLAT TRACK ADVENTURETRACKERS
450. Like really, really far off.
Like three seconds a lap, far off.
Within two turns, I realized that
was not the way to ride these
things. Right away, I was behind
Danny [Eslick], and he was just
literally wide open, throwing a
30-foot roost off the back of that
thing at the short track. It was
like, 'Holy cow, I'm giving this
thing way too much respect.'
"We're taking these 500-plus-
pound motorcycles and just,
I mean, there's no nice way of
putting it, beating the heck out
of them. We're racing them so
incredibly hard. You just need
to ride the heck out of it. What
we're doing on these things is
pretty ridiculous."
and I was like, 'So am I. So let's
make it a dollar"), along with a
16-pound trailer hitch, cut in half
and then zip-tied and duct taped
under his seat, to make weight
(at least until it flew off while
negotiating a jump, at which
point it was drilled and bolted to
the bike).
The 2022 Mission Production
Twins Champion/Parts Unlim
-
ited brand manager, Janisch,
admitted that he was initially
skeptical
that the bikes were up
to the task on the track, even
if he very much enjoyed a race
week spent logging some 1200
miles roaming the hills near
Sturgis aboard a Harley-David-
son Pan America 1250 nearly
Austin Luczak
earned his first
Progressive AFT
podium aboard
the Memphis
Shades/Black Hills
Powersports Honda
Africa Twin at the
Jackpine Gypsies II
Short Track.
identical to his WFORacingOn-
line.com race bike.
Janisch
said, "The entire con-
cept of adventure riding is more
about how you get
somewhere
than the destination. It's about
really enjoying the scenery and
having a comfortable ride while
being off the beaten path."
However, a stint of preseason
testing resulted in excruciatingly
slow lap times. "When I was
testing, I was 100 percent super
respectful of the motorcycle.
And I was really far off of my
