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This edition includes... • Latvia (July) - the latest member of the AMD World Championship
Affiliate Network • Review of Bike Shed Show in London • 'Ducky', an Ironhead Sporster
by Yuri Shif • Major change to the Modified Harley Class from 2020
Custom Bike Show - Latvia, July 21
The newest addition to the AMD World
Championship Affiliate Custom Bike
Show program will be the fourth
annual Custom Bike Show being
staged on July 21 at the same time as
the annual town festival in the historic
town of Cesis in Latvia.
The show is hosted by local club MC
XIII and while the event is still new and
the custom scene in Latvia (as in the
other Baltic states) is small, the show
is expected to attract around 50 bikes
from Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia
with the Best in Show winning
expenses to compete at the AMD
World Championship at INTERMOT
Customized in Cologne, Germany
(October 3-7) 2018.
The markets in countries like Latvia
may be small, but they are growing.
With new generations of custom bike
enthusiasts who have only known the
post-independence freedom starting
to participate in the custom market,
and a tradition of craftsmanship and
creativity, the future looks bright for
the custom bike lifestyle and market
throughout Eastern Europe.
Classes will feature public picks,
including best paint/finish and
competitor/expert panel voting classes
such as Best Custom and Best Old
Timer. Cesis is one of the oldest towns
in Latvia, famed for its ruined medieval
castle, where the Custom Bike Show
will take place.
www.mc13.lv
www.custombikeshow.lv
AMD World Championship
2018 will see the final Modified Harley Class
As AMD announces a significant class change for 2020, we take a quick look at some of
the outstanding Modified Harley-Davidsons that have graced the World Championship
in recent years…
t is an irony that of all custom bike
shows, the ‘AMD’ should have a Modified
Harley-Davidson class with a rigorously
enforced rule set.
The concept of recognizing Modified Harleys
specifically was born out of two objectives. The first
was to provide balance to the popularity that our
Freestyle class concept had from the word get-go
when it made its debut in 2004.
The Freestyle concept had an immediate impact on
the long-term evolution of how custom design and
engineering evolved subsequently, an effect that can
be clearly seen in the custom bike archive at the event
website (www.amdchampionship.com) where every
bike ever to enter any of the AMD World or European
Championship classes is recorded for posterity with
tech specs and studio grade photography - one of
the most comprehensive, valuable and popular
custom design archives on the internet.
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www.AMDchampionship.com
2016 Modified Harley-Davidson
World Champion
‘Milwaukee Mile’ by Christoph
Madaus, German Motorcycle
Authority, Germany
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