American Motorcycle Dealer AMD 179 June 2014 | Page 17

Inglourious Basterds win AMD's Italian Affiliate event THE 3rd annual Italian Motorcycle Championship took place at the 28th Biker Fest in Lignano Sabbiadoro, Udine, Italy, from May 15-18. The Italian Championship is the culmination of a 10 event network of custom bike shows held throughout Italy and promoted by Italian custom magazine Bikers Life. Staged again on the impressive Terrazza a Mare, 55 bikes from across Italy plus visitors from the Czech Republic, Romania and Ukraine competed in Freestyle, Modified Harley-Davidson, Metric, Streetfighter, Cafe Racer and Scrambler classes with the three Best in Show winners receiving 1,000 Euro expenses towards competing at the 11th annual AMD World Championship of Custom 1st place bike ‘Madiba’ by Inglourious Basterds Cycles Bike Building at INTERMOT, Cologne, Germany, from September 30 to October 5, 2014. This year’s winner was the reigning AMD Retro Modified World 2nd place bike ‘Fatboy’ by Lari Motori Champion, Inglourious Basterds Cycles of Italy, with “Madiba”, a heavily modified Benelli 600 Sport Cafe Racer. In second place was Lari Motori with a Harley-Davidson Fatboy, and in 3rd place PDF Motociclette - the new shop formed by the “Abnormal Cycles” crew after splitting from Abnormal Cycles owner Samuele Reali. Their third placed bike, “WR Hazard”, is based on a HarleyDavidson WLA frame and engine, with many hand-made parts. 3rd place bike ‘WR Hazard’ by PDF Motociclette World Champs entry forms available online THE official entry form, rules and class definitions for the 2014 AMD World Championship of Custom Bike Building are now available online. Being staged at INTERMOT for the first time, in Cologne, Germany, from September 30th to October 5th 2014, 'Early Bird' competitors can scoop a € 100,00 entry fee discount - bikes entered prior to June 30th will be able to enter for € 100,00 (fee exemptions apply to 2013-14 Affiliate Show winners and previous World www.AMDchampionship.com Championship prize winners). All competitors also receive the AMD World Championship 2014 special edition 'Competitor Logo' for use in all their own advertising, marketing, print, website and social media activity, in addition to a free of charge studiograde photo-shoot set of pictures of their bike. There will be five classes at the AMD World Championship in 2014 - the now traditional and highly acclaimed FreeStyle class from which the 11th annual AMD World Champion Custom Bike Builder will be chosen, plus fou