A few months we told you that there was speculation that Harley-Davidson could be preparing to unveil a new, smaller version of its recently released adventure bike – and new information reveals that it could be closer than we first thought.
It’s not a surprise that H-D’s decided to create a smaller adventure machine. While the Pan America 1250 goes up against the likes of BMW’s R1250GS and KTM’s 1290 Super Adventure (and many more), it’s missing a bit of a trick by not having a bike that’s able to compete with the increasingly popular selection of ‘middleweight’ adventure bikes currently being rolled out thick and fast by all of the biggest names in the game.
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The biggest clue we’ve had that it’s coming is a series of documents filed at the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Some serious sleuthing has revealed that under the installation instructions for its 66 Collection Round Mirrors there’s a model called ‘RA975’. Ok, so it doesn’t exactly say Pan America – or even PA – but it turns out that RA is actually the internal model code Harley-Davidson uses for the Pan America.
And with RA975 listed across several further documents across several countries in Europe, everything comes together to suggest that there’s a Pan America 975 coming very soon. Here’s hoping it’ll be ready to ride for 2023, because we can hardly wait.
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