5th Annual Official World Championship opened by Sturgis Mayor

City of Sturgis Mayor Maurie LaRue declared this year’s World Championship open at 11:30 am MST with some seventy plus bikes in competition from 13 different countries.

Featuring Affiliate event winners from the past 12 months that have come to the United States to compete against many of America’s finest builders, the Rally itself has got off to a healthy start and foot traffic for vendors at Champions Park is already running ahead of that seen at the facility last year.

With market leaders such as S&S Cycle, Custom Chrome, Big Dog Motorcycles, Swift Motorcycles, ProCharger, MC Advantages, Lyndall Racing Brakes, Wilwood Engineering, Black Hills Custom Cycles, Kiwi Indian Motorcycle Co., Orange County Chopper Motorcycles and more drawing visitors to the Park, this is still only the second year for the Champions Park facility. The concept of a serious custom bike, parts and accessories vendor destination for Rally visitors, who take their custom bike and component choices seriously, is now “locked-solid” as a Rally vendor opportunity whose time had come.

Inside the Championship Hall builders continue to meet and greet their industry colleagues in an atmosphere of competitive friendship and respect that has become such a hallmark of the World Championship.

Today was ‘VIP Day’ with early Rally visitors able to mingle with vendor community representatives.

The Championship features its noted Production Manufacturer special class, with competition for the World Championship fierce in the entirely open concept ‘Freestyle Class’.

Judging will again be primarily by the competitors themselves, with guest VIP judges from the custom motorcycle press and vendor communities.

Sunday evening saw the first of the competitor meetings at which this year’s builders will get the chance to meet the event’s Official Partners and Champions Park vendors.

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