Victory back at Pikes Peak with Project 156
The American company will pull out its prototype for another attempt at the famed hill climbVictory Motorcycles has announced a return to the 156-turn Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in Colorado on June 26 with its Project 156 prototype and Empulse RR electric bike.
Project 156 will be ridden by 2014 Pikes Peak champion Jeremy Toye in the 'Powersport Exhibition' class, and the Empulse RR (raced in last year’s TT Zero at the Isle of Man) will be piloted by Cycle World’s Road Test Editor Don Canet in the four-bike electric class. Canet previously rode Project 156 in 2015.
“We are eager to bring the Victory Racing team back to Pikes Peak this year to help celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Race to the Clouds,” said Alex Hultgren, Director of Marketing for Victory Motorcycles. “One way Victory lives and breathes modern American muscle is by continuously pushing ourselves through our performance and racing initiatives and since Pikes Peak is arguably the most challenging race in America, it’s exactly where we need to be.”
Last year, Canet qualified fastest in the exhibition class, and fourth overall, but on race day low-sided in the second section of the mountain course and stopped running less than two miles from the summit — at about 13,000 feet.
Meanwhile, Aussie journalist Rennie Scaysbrook, who now works for Cycle News in America, will also compete at Pikes Peak in the 'Heavyweight' class on a KTM Super Duke 1290 R.
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