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EVENT FEATURE CUSTOMBIKE

BEST PAINT - Swen Weber, Simson AWO

Because we just can’t resist a big orange cat! Mac and Sandra Frolich working
on their Build Off bike.

Vincent Pels is the head man at
Zodiac and this is his personal ride.

Featherbed-style double-loop frame for Indian's
111 motor and drive train, which offers the choice
of implanting complete 111 engine/drive trains into
a frame that can then be transformed into styles
impossible to build with the stock Indian Big Twins.
BEST ENGINEERING - Stanislaw Szydelko, The Monster The frame utilises the stock Indian backbone to
which the solid tubes are mounted, routed to match
all stock engine brackets while offering a much
more rigid frame. Sven Naber had the framework
developed on CAD before bending the first tubes,
while Michael Naumann created the aluminium
bodywork. It took them just two months to go from
the first idea to having a advanced prototype, along
with another frame to show off the chassis itself. This
project is one to follow!
One of the popular elements of Custombike is the
International Biker Build-Off which pits two custom
bike teams in competition, although this year they
actually seemed to do anything but compete against
each other. In fact, Steve Schneiderbanger (who has
been running SSC for forty years), his son and the
rest of the SSC team worked in complete harmony
with Sandra and Mac Fröhlich who run Swiss
custom shop, McSands, and specialise in high class

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