American Motorcycle Dealer AMD 215 June 2017 | Page 24

Words by Robin Bradley [email protected] American Qtec is a new business, established late in 2016 to sell the Qtec Engineering traditional trike, reverse trike and Quad Softail conversion kits designed and developed in Belgium by Sandy Poglavec. P oglavec designed the first kits more than a decade ago, and they have been popular all over Europe ever since. AMD remembers first meeting Poglavec at EICMA, the renowned ‘Milan Show’, just after he’d started to sell those first kits, and given the size and sophistication of the trike market in Europe, we are not surprised at the success he’s achieved. The American Qtec business is the brainchild of Terry and Roxane Evans of Gilbert, Arizona. Terry has been building trikes and doing trike conversions for multiple manufacturers’ platforms for years, and in 2014 turned his passion into a business when he and Roxane founded their American Bike and Trike custom shop. Terry got his hands on a couple of the kits and built a Q3F (reverse trike) and a Q4 (quad), which he took to the International Motorcycle show in Phoenix, Arizona, where they were very well received. Having seen the quality, versatility and popularity of the product line for themselves, and having the experience to see the potential for the program as a result of their years in the trike market, American Trike and Bike became the sub-distributor for the kits in the south west region of the United States. Then late last year, an opportunity opened up that would allow them to take their involvement in the Qtec concept to another level, and they inked a deal with Poglavec to become the master distributor for the 24 AMERICAN MOTORCYCLE DEALER - JUNE 2017 whole of North America - establishing American Qtec to assemble and sell the kits, with Greg “Troll” Hughes as National Sales Director. Designed as a genuine bolt-on conversion for Softails, central to the Qtec concept is a patented, independent suspension “that gives the end user a machine that handles like nothing else on the market,” says Hughes. “The suspension is based on Formula One racing Greg “Troll” Hughes – National Sales Director for American Qtec Terry and Roxane Evans started American Bike and Trike at Gilbert, Arizona in 2014 www.AMDchampionship.com