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P124 FEATURE I AMERICAN FLAT TRACK ADVENTURETRACKERS revealed that Mischler had suffered a broken foot, leaving OTBR in need of a sub to ride their BMW F 900 GS at the Jack- pine Gypsies Super TT. "I was fairly nervous," Harris admitted. "I didn't want to go out there and just wad myself up and get embarrassed in my first race. I asked the team what their expectations were before I said yes, and they said, 'We just want you to go have fun.' That was good enough for me. "My goals were all reason - able, and I feel like I achieved them in Sturgis." ers grid, Harris stood out as the exception. However, his rela- tive anonymity didn't prevent him from making a serious contribution to its primordial mystique. Harris attended Johnny Lewis' Slide School in '21 and caught the racing bug big time. As a developing amateur racer, Harris eyed the new class and consid - ered it a potential entry point for his professional racing ambi- tions, perhaps as early as 2026. However, that timeline was accelerated when an x-ray it's obviously due to the size of the bike and what you're try- ing to force it to do around the track. But at the same time, the weird part was that they raced really, really well. It sounds contradictory and it's hard to explain. But basically, in order to kind of get the extra tenth of a second out of the bike, you had to ride it crazy hard." Immediately after claim- ing the first of his two Sturgis checkered flags, Bromley added another chapter to the early legacy of the class by merging the celebrations of victory lane with those of Main Street. "I mean, it's a street bike," he said. "I didn't really have a way to get around other than in my aunt's motorhome. So, after the race, we figured we'd just put the license plate back on the bike and go for a ride. "I had a lot of people yelling and screaming downtown, you know, congratulating me after the race. It was just cool and helped to promote the sport. If you go to the race and you watch me on the track, that's one thing. But when you're down on Main Street, and there's drunk people, there's par- ties, there's fights, and you see the race bikes down there on top of all that, it just adds that extra flair." William Harris took the baton from Bromley and ran with it— halfway across the nation. Among the aforementioned collection of accomplished pros who lined the AdventureTrack- Will full-size adventure bike flat track racing be the next big thing, just like bagger racing in MotoAmerica road racing? Only time will tell.