[1] Twin Club MC’s 35th annual Custom Bike Show, one of the World Championship’s oldest Affiliate events, defied poor weather forecasts (and the recession) to pull healthy crowds and, as usual, a good standard of custom bike originality and variety.

After finishing seventh in this year’s European Championship, and narrowly missing out on World Championship prize money with a 3rd place at Norrtälje last year, the winner was Anders Göth, of Skärblacka in Sweden, whose 113 inch Ultima engined 6-speed springer rigid has won him a 5.000,00 euro expenses contribution towards competing at this year’s 6th annual Official World Championship at Sturgis from August 2nd to 5th.

Second place was taken by Andreas Jarledal, Peder Johansson’s partner in their internationally respected HogTech business in Sweden, with a classic and detail-rich chopper named “It’s a Chopper Babe” in homage to Bruce Willis’s famous remark in Pulp Fiction.

Third place was taken by Micke Jonssen of Sweden for an S&S Panhead style engined and Goldammer front-end hybrid that combined old-school styling with very contemporary thinking, an approach that is very much in keeping with the styling diversity and freestyle thinking that is at the heart of the World and European Championship program.

Andreas and Micke won expenses contributions to compete at the next (2010) Official European Championship of Custom Bike Building (at the Custom Chrome Europe Dealer Show) in Germany in March next year.

As ever we’d like to express our thanks to Twin Club MC (celebrating their 40th anniversary this year) for their generosity in putting up the prize monies and in collaboration with the City of Norrtälje, Sweden, staging an outstanding event. We’d also like to recognize Custom Chrome Europe and Motorcycle Storehouse for their generosity in supporting the event with parts and accessory contingency prizes for the class winners.

Our thanks also go to John Lillegård of Norway, Martin Domeij of Sweden, Uffe Karlsson of Twin Club in Sweden and Germany’s Horst ‘MotoGrapher’ Rösler for providing experienced, independent and international perspective in undertaking World Championship Affiliate event judging duties.

www.custombikeshow.se