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Yahoo
27-03-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Harley Dudes Have Finally Come For The Pan America
The Harley-Davidson Pan America is, in terms of market positioning, a weird bike. It's a Harley in all the functional ways — expensive, comfortable, built for touring, powered by a v-twin — but stylistically it's a whole other beast. Adventure is new for Harley, and when the bike launched it left folks to wonder whether the bar-and-shield loyal would ever warm to it. Well, now we have our answer: They're painting these ADVs up like choppers all the same. This Pan America showed up on Facebook Marketplace with some truly terrible photos, but they're enough to show the vibe this bike is going for. Purple wheels and crash bars match the flame print laid over the white fairing and tank, street tires adorn the alloys. It has color-matched enduro-style unpadded foot pegs, and a truly massive muffler. This is all absurd for the Pan America's intended function, but it goes to prove one thing: The Harley kids are all right. Read more: You Can Buy A 400-HP V-Series Cadillac For Less Than A Honda Accord Pinstriping and flames are classic Harley couture, but the white/purple/blue color scheme almost feels more Busa Boy to me. Sure, this exact paint scheme would fit fine on a Sportster, but picture it on a Hayabusa — doesn't it fit a little bit better there? Maybe this bike's painter lived a prior life as a Busa owner, and the Pan America moved them into Harley ownership. Truly expanding the brand. This Pan America is far and away my favorite one I've ever seen, simply because some owner — either the seller or someone prior — took the time to make it their bike. I'll always respect that, no matter what I think of the end result. You've lowered the resale value to make something yours, and that's always worth celebrating. When you really get down to it, what's more Harley-Davidson than customizing your bike to better fit your personal vibe? Want more like this? Join the Jalopnik newsletter to get the latest auto news sent straight to your inbox... Read the original article on Jalopnik.
Yahoo
10-03-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
This Retro Dakar-Inspired Tenere 700 Is The Coolest Adventure Bike Out There
Adventure bikes are, with a couple exceptions, generally pretty dweeby. They're objectively good at many things, but their function-over-form aesthetic often makes them subjectively extremely pocket protector-y. That's only most ADVs, though, not all of them. This modified Yamaha Tenere 700, with its bodykit inspired by an era back when Dakar was cool, is an exception. It may well be the neatest looking adventure bike on the roads today. The Tenere is a Bike Shed project out of the UK, built with a kit from Holy Moly Motorcycles. It's actually a personal bike of Bike Shed founder Gareth Charlton, and the bike was built up in the club's Shoreditch location. Yet, despite being an actual dual-purpose on- and off-road bike from the factory, this Tenere might be the first Bike Shed project I've seen to not wear Continental TKC80s. They love to throw those tires on their builds over there. Read more: These New Cars Just Aren't Worth The Money Charlton's build may be my favorite with this Holy Moly body kit, thanks to its graphics package and high-mount exhaust. The white, yellow, and blue colorway really shows off the new parts, and fits with my new theory that motorcycle windshields are actually way less necessary than everyone thinks. The exhaust, too, looks more off-road ready than Yamaha's factory fitment — especially after all the horror stories of bent stock pipes on the forums. Truly transformative body kits are rarer than they should be, but this one throws the Tenere back in time by decades in the best way. Retro dual-sport looks with modern middleweight ADV capability is a match made in heaven, and this Bike Shed build shows off just how good the kit can be. I'm still not sold on ADVs for city use, but damn if this one doesn't make such a use case tempting. Want more like this? Join the Jalopnik newsletter to get the latest auto news sent straight to your inbox... Read the original article on Jalopnik.
