American Motorcycle Dealer AMD 208 November 2016 | Page 25

Robin Bradley Publisher [email protected] PICTURES BY Onno Wieringa www.madnessphotography.eu Frank Sander www.thunder-media-service.de Japanese customizer Suicide Customs scored a convincing first place in the 12th AMD World Championship at ‘INTERMOT Customized’ at Cologne, Germany, October 10th, to take the coveted title of AMD World Champion of Custom Bike Building. oted for by the competitors themselves, this is the third time that a customizer from Japan has taken the Championship ring home, and in a close field of Freestyle class entrants, Suicide Customs was the clear choice of his fellow competitors as their Champion for the next two years. Suicide Customs’ 1000cc V-twin “Rumble Racer” has quite a V www.AMDchampionship.com back story. Crated for dry shipping to Europe several weeks before the show, Koh Niwa had tense days and late evenings at the World Championship before managing to get the bike fired up and completing the necessary run test to be able to qualify for prizing – his determination in the face of tough odds won the admiration of the “Class of 2016”. In a very broad international AMERICAN MOTORCYCLE DEALER - NOVEMBER 2016 25