VIDEO: Project 156—TRACK TEST!

The next step for Project 156—shaking down the prototype Victory Pikes Peak hillclimber at Buttonwillow Raceway Park in Southern California—has been completed. And Road Test Editor Don Canet, who will be racing this trick machine at Pikes Peak on June 28, says he’s pumped. In this video, we see Canet riding this prototype Victory for the first time, coming to grips with the bike before it received the race graphics and paint you see in the photos. The Pikes Peak Hill Climb is a one-shot deal, a 156-turn ascent that places extreme demands on machinery. Will this custom Roland Sands-built Victory, which has its fuel tank below the engine, be up to the task? We hope to find out this weekend, when an official test takes place at altitude on the paved 12.42-mile course. (This is our third Project 156 video. In our first, we share our plan, and in the second, we see the chassis coming together at Roland Sands Design, plus the prototype V-twin being tested on the dyno.)

Next up: Testing on the mountain!

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