21/05/2008 by info.

Twin Club, of Norrtelje, Sweden, is once again running its Custom Bike Show, which is often referred to as the Scandinavian Championship of Bike Building.

The event, which will take place on June 7th in the Societets Park, is an Affiliate to the Official World Championship of Custom Bike Building, and as such is expected to draw builds from across Europe. Competitors must ride their bikes into the exhibition ground to be allowed to participate.

After attracting over 6,000 ride-in visitors last year, Twin Club has arranged, once again, to have a bridge connecting the park with the port side with an increased amount of space on the port side.

Given that last year’s World Champion, Stellan Egeland, debuted his winning bike at Norrtelje, expectations are high for this year’s show and, once again, this year’s Best of Show winner will go to the World Championship final in Sturgis, USA, and the 2nd and 3rd prize winners will go to the European Championship in Mainz, Germany. The prize fund to cover these expenses (8,000 Euros in total) is sponsored by Twin Club MC.

In addition there is a collection of prizes for the other classes in the Custom Bike Show totaling more than 40,000 Euros. The full listing of show classes in addition to the Best of Show is H-D Chopper, Custom, Classic Custom, Chopper, Trike, Classic, Best Paint and People’s Choice.

TWIN CLUB MC CUSTOM BIKE SHOW
Email: info@custombikeshow.se

www.custombikeshow.se

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14/05/2008 by info.

Kids & Chrome Foundation now has tickets on sale for the annual Kids & Chrome Benefit Dinner & Auction presented by Budweiser during the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.

The event is held in the name of enriching the outreach and programs provided by two vital Black Hills non-profit organizations, Children’s Home Society, the “Kids” in the foundation’s moniker, and Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame, the “Chrome”. The 2007 Kids & Chrome event, bringing together over 400 motorcycle enthusiasts, industry professionals and celebrities from the Black Hills community, across the nation and around the globe to “Rally for a Reason”, raised over $100,000.00 in contributions, gifting $70,000.00 to the Children’s Home Society and $30,000 to the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum.

Kids & Chrome 2008 will take place on Wednesday, August 6th, at the Spearfish Holiday Inn & Convention Center, Spearfish, South Dakota. Featured at this year’s 4th Annual Kids & Chrome will be “The Dakota”, a one-off custom bagger, created for Kids & Chrome by Tom Binyon, owner of BaggerWorks Custom Touring Motorcycles in Wichita, Kansas. The Dakota will be auctioned to the highest bidder during the Kids & Chrome benefit dinner and auction.

Tickets for the Kids & Chrome benefit dinner and auction event can be purchased on-line at kidsandchrome.com, or by contacting Stacey Sharp, Kids & Chrome Event Coordinator, at 605 341 5226 or stacey@thesharpagency.com. For Kids & Chrome sponsorship information or to donate auction items for the event, contact Darla Crown at Children’s Home Society at darla.crown@chssd.org or phone 605 391 5555 .

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07/05/2008 by info.

The 2nd annual Rod ‘n Custom Show, held at the HungExpo exhibition center in Budapest, Hungary, took place over the weekend of May 3-4 and is the latest in the series of events affiliated to the Official World Championship of Custom Bike Building.

The competition attracted 68 bikes entered by 31 builders from 14 countries. Winner of the ‘Absolut’ class was Roman Bus of custom shop Wildstyle in the Czech Republic who picked up a prize of 5000 Euros as a contribution to his expenses in attending the Official World Championship of Custom Bike Building in Sturgis over August 3-6.

Bus’s bike, “Event Horizon”, also won the Professional prize, and featured a 200 cui motor specially constructed by Dux Industries of Hamburg, Germany, a hand-made one-off frame with integrated oil tank and a hand-made rear fender containing the gas tank.

The event attracted over 16000 visitors and is being hailed as Eastern Europe’s biggest custom event.

ROD ‘N CUSTOM SHOW
Budapest, Hungary

www.rodandcustom.hu

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02/04/2008 by info.

OFFICIAL EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP OF CUSTOM BIKE BUILDING 2008
FREESTYLE CLASS

1. OPEN MIND, Thunderbike, Germany
(CCE/DHL 5.000 € voucher for Sturgis transport)
2. Sugarland Express, Riverside Motorcycles, France
(CCE/DHL 5.000 € voucher for Sturgis transport)
3. Seppster „Ice Racer“, TGS Motorcycles, Germany
(CCE/DHL 5.000 € voucher for Sturgis transport)
4. V-Rage, Odyseey-Motorcycles, France, (Baker DD6 Gearbox)
5. Half Day, Tribute to S&S, Krugger Motorcycles, Belgium, (Rebuffini Elypse forward controls)
6. Precious, Classic Cycles, Switzerland, (Kodlin triple tree set)
7. Speedpan, Frank van Geffen, Netherlands, (Spyke „Stealth“ starter chrome)
8. Project 17, Andreoli Motorcycles, Italy, (Avon/Cooper 250/300 tire)
9. Just Bike, VAV-Tuninc, Czech Republic, (Progressive Suspention shocks)
10. Cadbike 33, BMW Bobber, DBBP Design, Netherlands, (MMB digital speedo)

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02/04/2008 by info.

Andreas Bergerforth and the team at Thunderbike (of Hamminkeln in Germany) can now add their names to the list of those who have proven their championship grade credentials on multiple occasions, having backed up their 2006 European Championship win with this year’s title.

In 2006 Thunderbike won in Europe and went on to be second in the Official World Championship with ‘Spectacula’. This year’s return to the podium two years on from that success was with ‘Open Mind’, an S&S-engined fusion of old and contemporary styling that showcased the kind of engineering and production excellence that has become the acknowledged hallmark of Championship program winning bikes.

Thunderbike took the win in one of the closest European Championships yet seen. Second place was taken by last year’s third-placed builder, Riverside Motocyclettes of Vallon Pont d’Arc in France (in collaboration with Mort-M Garage) with ‘Sugarland Express’.

Third place went to another German, and somebody who is a veteran of the European Championship program, Tobias Guckel of TGS Motorcycles (Tittling/Rappenhof, Germany) with ‘Seppster 2′.

Fourth and fifth places went to two more program veterans. Frenchman Bertrand Dubet (Odyssey Motorcycles) was fourth with the much-admired ‘V-Rage’, featuring a reversed Engenuity 147 cu inch motor and futuristic biometric ignition recognition system.

Fifth place went to Freddie ‘Krugger’ Bertrand, with ‘Half Day’, a bike named for the Illinois Race Track where S&S Cycle founder George Smith used to race in the 1950’s, and the appearance of the bike marked the first competitive debut for one of the S&S-engined bikes that have been built to celebrate S&S Cycle’s 50th anniversary.

The event also saw Cory Ness’s S&S 50th bike being seen publicly for the first time, and a European unveiling for the S&S X-Wedge, with Jerry Greenlaw’s Custom Garage of Germany giving the new platform its first competitive outing outside the United States.

The event itself was the fourth annual Official European Championship of Custom Bike Building, and was staged at Custom Chrome’s European Dealer Show at the Phoenixhalle at Mainz in central Germany.

Altogether 100 bikes were entered this year, with builders coming from 15 countries in total.

There were eight entries in Custom Chrome’s own Motorcycle sub-class, with 62 bikes competing in the acclaimed Freestyle ‘Class’ from which the builders themselves, with selected former competitors and champions, custom journalists, Affiliate event operators and members of the Official Partner and exhibiting vendor community, chose the winners using the unique and internationally respected Championship Program judging formula.

In the Modified Harley-Davidson class, which received a record 30 entries, the win was taken by industry veteran Claus Guenther of USM from near Hanover, Germany, with ‘48′. Second place in the Modified Harleys went to Alex Sluyter (Harley Factory Frankfurt, Germany) with ‘The Apprentice’; and French custom shop School Bar Atelier took third with ‘Old Gun’.

Tobias Guckel added to his third place Freestyle European Championship success with a win in the Custom Chrome Europe Motorcycles Class (bikes based on one of CCE’s kit bike packages) for the second year running, with Outback Cycles (Germany) second, and Custombike (Gerardo Chillico, Italy) third.

Custom Chrome Europe’s logistics partner DHL has generously supported the European Championship again with providing the top three with a voucher worth 5.000,00 euro (approx $7,500.00 each) towards the costs of bike freight for them to compete at this year’s 5th annual Official World Championship of Custom Bike Building at Champions Park on Lazelle Street during the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally (August 3rd to 6th).

Jammer Old School winner was Andreoli Motorcycles of Italy, with Independent Choppers and Hells Kitchen Choppers second and third.

S&S President’s Pick winner was Custom Garage in Germany for ‘Dragon’, their X-Wedge project; with Krazy Horse Customs from the UK second, and RMF Motorcycles, Germany, third.

The event is trade-only for Custom Chrome Europe dealers and European Championship competing builders on the Saturday, with additional local consumer attendance welcomed through the doors on the Sunday.

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19/03/2008 by info.

The second annual Rod ‘n Custom Show will take place over the weekend of May 3-4 in Budapest, Hungary.

The show, claimed to be the biggest custom event in Eastern Europe, will be held in the HungExpo exhibition center which features a 70,000 sq ft indoor exhibition hall together with a 65,000 sq ft outdoor area. In addition to custom motorcycles, the event will also feature Hot Rods and classic American cars.

The centerpiece Custom Bike Show is now the Hungarian Affiliate to the Official World Championship of Custom Bike Building and has already attracted entries from 14 countries. The Best in Show winner will receive a 5000 Euro contribution towards the expense of competing in this year’s Official World Championship of Custom Bike Building in Sturgis, August 3-6. Individual class prizes have been kindly sponsored by Custom Chrome Europe, Harley-Davidson Gyor and Highway Hawk.

Last year’s event attracted around 17,000 visitors and a field of over 80 bikes from 9 countries competing for the prizes. Mike Pruss of South Florida Choppers travelled over for the opening of their Budapest store and also took home the Best in Show accolade for his bike “Killer Orange”.

ROD ‘N CUSTOM SHOW
Email: info@rodandcustom.hu

www.rodandcustom.hu

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05/03/2008 by info.

Territorio Motero will be travelling to Sturgis as Spain’s 2008 Champion to compete in the Official World Championship of Custom Bike Building, after winning the Best in Show award at the Llunatica Benicassim show.

Their heavily-modified 1987 Suzuki Savage “Friki” featured a hand-made front end, gas tank, handlebars, seat and copper-plated wheels.

Second and third place, and expenses to attend the Official European Championship of Custom Bike Building in Mainz, Germany, in March, went to Spanish builders Hot Dreams Marbella and Sueca Iron.

The custom show featured 38 bikes from Spain, Portugal, France and the Netherlands divided into Freestyle, Modified Harley and Metric classes. Although an outdoor event, the bike show and concert area was enclosed within a 33,000 square feet marquee.

The four-day event was hailed as a great success, with almost 5000 people in attendance, double the number from 2007. The Llunatica show, held at the coastal resort of Benicassim, near Castellon in southern Spain, celebrated its 8th year at the venue and its first as Spanish Affiliate of the Official World Championship of Custom Bike Building.

Results:

Freestyle Class:
1st Hot Dreams Marbella
2nd J&J Streetfighters (Netherlands)
3rd Mort-M Garage (France)

Modified Harley Class:
1st Sueca Iron
2nd Daniel Coue
3rd M&M Custom

Metric Class:
1st Territorio Motero
2nd Pablo Pitarch
3rd Morlako Kustom

www.llunatica.org

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19/02/2008 by info.

CUSTOM Chrome Europe will celebrate the 10th anniversary of its popular Dealer Show at Mainz, Germany, on March 29th and 30th, with the event again hosting AMD’s Official European Championship of Custom Bike Building.

The event will see Custom Chrome putting up a parts and cash prize fund that includes bike freight/expenses contributions of 5.000 Euros each for the first three competitors to travel to compete at the 5th annual Official World Championship of Custom Bike Building at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in August.

Always a popular weekend with dealers in Europe, the event combines distributor warehouse show features such as vendor booths, seminars and parts and accessory sales promotions and incentives with what is widely regarded as the highest standard of custom bike design and engineering competition held outside of the United States.

European Championship judging will be by the competitors themselves and a selected VIP jury. The event is a genuinely open Championship, but whilst the majority of competitors are drawn from the custom dealer network in Europe, the unique formula of the weekend has provided a showcase in which leading private builders have been able to come and have their projects judged alongside the market’s professionals on a level playing field.

There will be sub-classes to recognize the specific design and engineering achievements of builders working with Custom Chrome Motorcycle packages and Modified Harley-Davidson frames and engines, but as ever, the primary hallmark of the European Championship will be the increasingly admired ‘FreeStyle’ class in which design and engineering diversity and originality is promoted and rewarded.

For their dealer show Custom Chrome is promising the largest turn-out of leading European and American vendors yet, with Jesse James, Cory Ness, John Reed, Fred Kodlin and Marcus Walz among those slated to be taking part.

The show runs from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm on Saturday March 29th (the dealer/industry-only day) and Sunday March 30th at its established venue, the atmospheric Phoenixhalle in Mainz, Germany.

www.custom-chrome-europe.com

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23/01/2008 by info.

BERTRAND Dubet of Odyssey Motorcycles, France, had a double victory at the weekend as he began the European custom bike show season with two separate show wins at Bike Expo in Padua, Italy.

Bike Expo, which hosts the Italian affiliate round of the World Championship of Custom Bike Building, also played host to two custom bike shows sponsored by Italian bike magazines Freeway Italia and Bikers Life.

After taking Best in Show, with his reverse-engined, automatic transmission bike V-Rage in the Freeway Italia show, Dubet went on to take first place in Bike Expo’s Chopper and Custom Show, collecting 5,000 euros towards freight and travel expenses to take his bike to the Official World Championship in Sturgis, in August.

The Best in Show winner in the Bikers Life show, JFK, built by Fred Kodlin, took second place in the affiliate show, with third place being awarded to Andreoli Motorcycles, Italy, who was last year’s winner. Both Kodlin and Andreoli receive 1,500 euros towards the expense of taking their bikes to the European Championship of Custom Bike Building in Mainz, Germany, in March.

www.bike-expo.it

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18/01/2008 by info.

LLUNATICA’S Bike Show is the latest event to join the World Championship of Custom Bike Building affiliate program. The event takes place in the Festival and Concert enclosure of Benicàssim on February 7-10.

The show originally began in 1996 in Vilanova i la Geltrú, where it was organized by Joan A. Martinez, who is better known as Dr. Guerra. In 2000 Dr. Guerra moved to Benicàssim in Castellon and began running his bike show there.

Over the years the show has become a truly international event with participants from Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, France, England, Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, Czech Republic and Greece. Last year’s show saw 2,500 bikers register to attend, with an additional 2,000 visitors over the weekend.

Due to Llunatica Bike Show becoming an Affiliate of the World Championship of Custom Bike Building, the winner’s prize will be a 5,000.00 euro expenses contribution to compete at the Official World Championship in Sturgis in August.

www.llunatica.org

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