American Motorcycle Dealer AMD 215 June 2017 | Page 24
Words by Robin Bradley
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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
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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
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