Page 22 - 100% Biker (January 2020)

EVENT FEATURE CUSTOMBIKE

BEST BOBBER - Stephan Schoning, Harley Flathead

We suspect there’s a nod to the classic
bathtub Triumph in there, but this should
probably have been drowned at birth.

Axel Wieden of Rhoen Motors is
presented with an award by CCE’s
Andreas Scholz (right) and Axel
Scherer (left). Excellent choice of
screen backdrop, too, chaps!

Streetfighters are still very popular in Germany and, like its daddy
the V-Max, the Yamaha MT-01 lends itself to the style perfectly.

BEST ROADSTER - Raffaele Gallo, Honda CX500 The SSC Build-Off team hard at work. The McSands
crew appear to have gone for their tea

BEST CRAZY BIKE - Game Over Cycles, Yamaha Niken

The Build Off teams actually

seemed to do anything but

compete against each other!

the then existing Bundesrepublik (West Germany) 50cc chopper which premiered at the IFMA event in
during those years was the theme of this year’s Cologne and was capable of a mighty 15mph! Many of
Special Exhibition which occupied a huge airy gallery the exhibits on display in Halbstark would not have
above the main show. The German Chopper dreams received a favourite reception by the police forces of
of the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s came alive in the Halbstark the time, to say the least!
(which translates as teenage rowdy) exhibition of Also from Poland, but using a more more modern
customized 25 and 50cc machines. AME was one of and extreme motorcycle, Game Over Cycles scored
the German pioneers of the homologated chopper high with its customised Yamaha Niken which you
(quite an achievement at that time!) and prototyped a can see featured elsewhere in this issue. The award of

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