A Harley doing the Dakar Rally?

Good luck to them I say! If the chassis design and build are good enough plus the rider experience, there’s no reason why the V Rod motor won’t take the punishment. It’s robust, compact and puts out enough power for the task. I remember when US and European armchair experts and critics ridiculed the Russian’s for entering a team using Kamas trucks .How stupid and arrogant they looked when the "antiquated and low tech " Russian trucks left the supposedly cream of the world buried and broken in the desert sands.