It took a while, a lot of it due to a certain laziness, but in the end I put an excellent Harley-Davidson Pan America 1250 Special on the Dyno. A couple more lines on this H-D model really need to be written, you can tell from the title.
In my humble opinion, the Pan America is a project that is successful in its fundamentals and only needs a little more attention from H-D to become a bike that can compete without shyness in the crowded world of maxi enduros.
I speak of shyness because this is what H-D’s attitude towards the Pan America refers to, or at least the H-D of our European colony. Something like: I present the bike to you but quietly almost with embarrassment, almost as if it were an illegitimate child.
How many BMW-ists, Ducati-ists, Triumph-ists, Honda-ists, KTK-ists, etc-ists have had the chance to try the Pan America?
How many even know it exists?
I will avoid going into the merits, these are personal opinions and without a cross-examination I prefer not to pontificate.
However, I can show that this bike in not bad at all.
The graph refers to a 2022 Pan America with 15,000 km equipped with a “link pipe” instead of the resonator and a Euro 5 hp Corse slip-on.
Red curves refers to the motorcycle with original map, blue curves to the motorcycle after the tuning on a DynoJet dynamometer.
Those who sell the terminals say: “It does not require remapping the control unit”, but if you do an engine tuning and do it well the motorcycle is much nicer to drive.
More than the increase in terms of power, it is worth to note the constant increase in torque already from 2,000 rpm.
