The 2018 American Flat Track season is off and running, and Harley-Davidson is making a push and climbing closer to the podium. Jarod Vanderkooi finished in fourth place at the Atlanta Short Track Dixie Speedway after battling in second for the majority of the race. Can Vanderkooi, Harley-Davidson and the XG750R score a podium at this weekend’s Texas Half Mile" We shall see…
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April 23, 2018 – It?s been the question among fans and the dirt track community for a year now: When ? or will ? Harley-Davidson?s semi-new XG750R powerslide into the top tier of AFT Twins competition and run with the Indians"

It?s a fair query despite the inherent technical and design imbalance between the production-based XG and the from-scratch prototype Indian. Harley dirt track fans either aren?t aware of the production vs. prototype issue or aren?t interested; they simply want the orange and black to compete ? and now ? as it works to regain the championship mantle held for so many decades. The 2017 season was full of challenges for H-D?s factory team, and even this year?s Daytona TT was a downer for a Vance & Hines crew that worked so hard over the off-season to improve their motorcycle.
But two weeks ago at the Atlanta Short Track on the red-brick clay of Dixie Speedway came a breakthrough: H-D factory rider Jarod ?Captain Chaos? Vanderkooi, the 20-year-old junior member of a three-rider team sporting two veterans with plenty of Grand Na...