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BEST CAFE RACER - Manuel Bruckner, BMW K100 BEST ROOKIE - Jan Reif, Simson Scwalbe Ficthtenmopped. Honest.
BEST CHOPPER - Andreas Schulz, Harley Shovelhead Matching hot rod Indian and sedan from Lobo
Bikes. It’s been a while since we’ve seen one of
those Crime Scene Choppers chopped liver seats.
German Harley specialists BEST SPORTS BIKE - Klaus Vosteen, Suzuki GSX-R1100
Thunderbike go all Chicano!
old school bikes and engine restoration.
Steve was resurrecting a 40-year-old project
from his early days which was assembled into a
classic Honda CB 750 Four chopper, while Sandra There are still custom builders
had prepared a unique engine for her husband’s who defy all the odds and try to
extraordinary chop frame in the shape of a 1926-
type IoE V-twin created from rare aftermarket give the market new options
components, upgraded to 1300cc and fed by two
genuine Linkert carburettors. Both teams helped
each other fit their engines into the frame—and, in France, Belgium, Poland, Netherlands, Lichtenstein,
fact, lent a helping hand any time one was needed. Switzerland and other European countries
Both bikes started and performed at the appointed represented some of the best custom bikes in Europe.
time on Sunday—and even on stage it was difficult Custom history came alive with The Monster,
to point out which would be the winner. The trophy created between 1980 and 1992 by Stanislaw Szydelko
finally went to Switzerland and McSands, but at this of Poland who had to completely handcraft his ‘Tour
Build Off there were only winners—no doubt about Glide’ lookalike when his country was isolated not
that! And the contest might go on as both bikes were just by the Iron Curtain but also from most of the
invited to Punta Bagna 2020 to compete once more. Warsaw Pact states, due to the upcoming Solidarity
The results of the Custombike Bike Show were movement and its suppression by Polish authorities.
determined by the editors of the magazines with His grandson resurrected the motorcycle and has had
hundreds of competitors lined up in the various show it homologated and ridable in the condition it was
areas from which to choose. It was a very difficult job built—and it earned the builder a Best Engineering
and kept the jury busy for the first two days. So many trophy almost thirty years after he built it.
of the bikes were of outstanding quality. Entries from What happened in Germany—and especially
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