American Motorcycle Dealer AMD 180 July 2014 | Page 8

Custom Bike Show
Norrtällje, Sweden - 7 June 2014
The 40th annual Custom Bike
Show, held in Norrtällje’s
Societetsparken, featured 240
bikes entered in 7 classes and
over 12,000 visitors from
around Europe.
Organized by Twin Club MC, this is
one of the oldest custom bike
competitions and shows in the world,
and this year was also the 10th
anniversary of its affiliation to the
AMD World Championship of Custom
Bike Building. Competing builders
travelled from across Scandinavia and
Europe, and this year included an
entry from Japan and two from
Australia.
Three separate judging systems are
used to determine the winners, with
a jury of industry professionals
d e c i d i n g o n t h r e e Wo r l d
Championship affiliate prizes and
Best in Show, the competitors
themselves voting for the class prizes,
and a Public Choice winner - the prize
being a RevTech engine courtesy of

Veikko Sikiö's winning bike "WSA" was
entirely hand-built including the engine

Eddy Gustafsson took 2nd place with "Speedy", based on a
speedway engine modified for street use

Custom Chrome Europe.
Finland
again
fe a t u r ed
prominently amongst the awards and
provided two of the three Best in
Show winners who will travel to
Cologne to compete at the World
Championship held at INTERMOT in
October.
The Best in Show and Chopper
class winning bike, “WSA” by Veikko
Sikiö of Juupajoki from Finland, was
entirely hand-built, including the
engine.
The runner-up prize went to
Sweden’s Eddie Gustafsson for
“Speedy”, a street racer based on a )