Six minutes.

That’s how long it took for the outlaw in me to emerge after throwing a leg over Harley-Davidson’s 2025 Pan America 1250 ST. I’ve spent years chasing that feeling—riding everything from stripped-down customs to high-strung sportbikes—but few bikes ignite it this fast. Six minutes from the first ignition crackle in front of my place in Laurel Canyon to charging through its twisted labyrinth of narrow roads and ascending curves, engine snarling beneath me. By the time I hit the 101, bounding past cars, the San Gabriel Mountains pulling me east, I was the outlaw in the saddle.

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