The Harley-Davidson® Sportster™ S becomes the first motorcycle in the country to successfully achieve a record of covering 3141 kms in a 24-hours endurance test. It is a 121-horsepower Revolution® Max 1250T V-Twin engine.
A team of five riders – including National Racers Anushriya Gulati and Vijay Singh along with Vlogger Shubhabrata Marmar joined Malo Le Masson and Vijay Thomas from Hero MotoCorp – to achieve this feat at the world-class test tracks at Hero’s Global Centre for Innovation and Technology (CIT) located in Jaipur, Rajasthan. Supervised by two leading members of Hero’s team at CIT, David Lopez Cordoba – Head of Chassis Functional Development & National Racing Program, and Alex Busquets– Head of Vehicle Validation, the Harley-Davidson® Sportster™ S was put through the test for 24 hours. The team averaged 130.9 km/hr over24 hours to achieve this feat.
The Head of Harley-Davidson Business Unit at Hero MotoCorp Ravi Avalur said, “We recently took the Harley-Davidson® Pan America™ to the highest unpaved motorable road in the world. It is a strong testament to the quality of this H-D motorcycle to have successfully endured the test and gone further than any other motorcycle in the country in 24 hours.”