Joan Pedrero is at it again. Or still. The Spanish enduro rider has seemingly by no means met a rally raid he did not wish to compete in. Together in partnership with Harley-Davidson, he and his Pan America 1250 have been kicking up sand and rocks at occasions up and down the 2022 and 2023 calendars alike.

Today is December 26, 2023. In simply 4 days, Pedrero and Harley-Davidson will tackle the 2023 Africa Eco Race within the Maxi-Trail class with the Pan America 1250. This is the primary time that Harley has competed within the Africa Eco Race, an occasion that began again in 2009 after the 2008 Dakar Rally was cancelled.

The 2023 Africa Eco Race will begin in Monaco, then make its approach by means of Morocco, Mauritania, and Senegal. The occasion kicks off on December 30, 2023, and concludes with a podium ceremony at Lac Rose in Dakar on January 14, 2024. When it is throughout, the rivals may have run 12 levels and had a single relaxation day alongside the best way. 

Throughout 2022 and 2023, he is been extraordinarily aggressive on the bike, frequently scoring top-10 finishes and even successful the Baja Aragón España’s Maxi Trail class outright. Pedrero, whose Dakar bona fides stretch into the double digits, has clearly solely been getting higher as he is spent extra time with the Pan America. Both rider and bike have grown within the functionality of what they will obtain collectively, and the 2023 Africa Eco Race needs to be no exception.

“Adventure and efficiency are the guts of our model, and we are able to consider no higher method to showcase the flexibility of the Pan America than getting into within the Africa Eco Race. We are excited to be taking up this subsequent problem with Joan Pedrero after the good success now we have had all through 2023,” Harley-Davidson regional VP for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa Kolja Rebstock mentioned in a press release.

For a small style of what you possibly can anticipate, here is a brief video that Harley put along with Joan Pedrero after efficiently finishing the 2022 1000 Dunas Raid in Spain on a inventory Pan America 1250. The solely factor they modified, mentioned Pedrero, was switching the tires out to a set of Michelin Anakee Wilds and taking part in with the tire stress. The skilled rally raid skilled additionally referred to this specific occasion as “about half a Dakar,” to provide you a way of what it was like.