“All motorcycles are adventure bikes,” the intro of Biltwell’s Operation Numbnuts blog reads, and it takes no more than a second to get the innuendo. Photos of mud-covered Pans and Shovels, juxtaposed perfectly with Harley’s new Pan Pam ADV bikes, immediately spells out the message.
It takes more than a few loose screws to do what these guys did, covering 4,000 miles across Alaska, Yukon and British Columbia, with nothing more than camping gear and a military surplus chase vehicle. But if it wasn’t a bit nutty, would it really be an adventure?
The whole endeavor was several years in the making, and almost didn’t happen at all, due to COVID lockdowns and technical difficulties with Biltwell’s demilitarized LMTV chase rig.…