American Motorcycle Dealer AMD 171 October 2013 | Page 16

H-D 110th celebration custom show
S part of the Motor
Company’s
110th
activities, a custom show
was held at the Harley-Davidson
Museum Campus in Milwaukee
during the weekend of
celebrations. The custom show,
organized by Biker Pros, included
four AMD Invitational classes;
Freestyle, Radical Bagger, Retro
Mod and Mod Harley.
In the Freestyle class it was Shaun
Ruddy who took top honors with his
Chop Deluxe. As a part of his class win
Shaun will be traveling to Essen,
Germany, in 2014 to compete in the
World Championship of Custom Bike

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Building as part of the Team USA
incentive to bring US-based builders
over the World Championship now
that it is being held in Europe.
Ruddy’s bike takes the boar tracker
theme to extremes with its stretched
and raked frame and tall thin wheels.
At the front of the bike there is a radical
Deville leading link fork carrying
progressive-rate, coil over, nitrogen
shocks from a dirt bike, while the
whole package is powered by a motor
said to put out 167hp.
A 2012 custom Indian was good
enough to take second in Freestyle for
Jesse Bassett from The Gasbox, with
third place being taken by Daniel

Twin rear chain drives are among the many features on Old Black, which
took top honors in the Retro Mod class for Jeremy Cupp of LC Fabrications

Jon Shipley of Hoosier Daddy Choppers followed his top five in the Mod
Harley class at the 2013 World Championship with a win in the same class
with the same bike at the Motor Company’s 110th celebration custom show

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Chop Deluxe took the class win in
Freestyle for Shaun Ruddy of Chop Deville

Sanchez from Cut Throat Customs with
Tracker.
Blacksmith Motoring Company’s
2008 Retroliner, named El Vendetta,
was the winning Radical Bagger and
featured a stroked, turbocharged and
nitrous injected motor along with
Blacksmith Phantom remote control
air ride suspension and a 26in front
wheel conversion. A 2010 Road Glide
took second for Scott Baugh, and the
Roys Toys Customs’ Beelzebub 2004
custom Bagger of Roy Martin rounded
out the top three.
Former World Championship top
three finisher Jeremy Cupp of LC
Fabrications placed first in the Retro
Mod class with his 1976 Ironhead
Old Black, which features two rear
cylinder heads and dual final drive

chains. Copper Mike from Gravesend
Cycles placed second in class with his
’47 Knucklehead and third place
went to ‘Once in a While’, a ‘45
Flathead by Paul Anderson.
After placing top five in the 2013
World Championship Modified Harley
class at the World Championship, Jon
Shipley of Hoosier Daddy Chopper
took first place in the same class at the
Milwaukee celebration show with the
bike Firehouse Racer. The 1985 FXR
‘Sudden Impact’ from Cory Edwards,
took second in the Modified Harley
class and third was awarded to Clay
Rathburn, from Atom
Bomb Customs, for
his Sportster.
www.bikerpros.com

Surrounded by H-D Tourers, Blacksmith Motoring Company’s 2008 Retroliner
was named winner of the Radical Bagger class

www.AMDchampionship.com