I've heard a lot of negativity about the bagger racing over the past few years: "Race tracks are for race bikes", etc. I was skeptical of the series too, until I witnessed King of the Baggers (KOB) in all its ferocity at Laguna Seca a few years ago. The problem today is the same as it was back then: How do you make the uninitiated understand how great bagger racing is?
For the longest time, all I had was the fact that these 620 lbs units were lapping a second off MotoAmerica Supersport bikes, which weigh roughly half. But recently, the bagger racing world has grown, and now we have the FIM Bagger World Cup, which many would consider to be the premier class of hefty-motorcycle racing. The Bagger World Cup has given us another angle to view how competitive racing is in this class, as ex-MotoGP race winner, Andrea Iannone, just finished fourth in the first-ever cup, aboard a Niti Racing Harley-Davidson Road Glide.
