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t is difficult to explain, but I’m sure everybody has the same
experience - sometimes there are bikes that just drill into the
psyche and you find yourself coming back to drool over them
time and time again.
We did show some pictures of Hungarian builder Sapka Muvek’s ‘Black Brass’
immediately after it scored a top 20 finish in the 2016 ‘AMD’, and again last
year when we ran a retro about his World Championship pedigree and his
“Timeless Machines”.
But, with just 10 weeks to go, here we are again, and this time hopefully doing
the exquisite attention to detail the justice it deserves.
Sapka is no stranger to success in AMD’s World (and European) Championship
programs. We first got to know Sapka many years ago when he won the
AMD European Championship at Custom Chrome’s
Dealer Show in Germany in 2007 and
went on to a 5th place at
the
AMD
World
Championship later the
same year. His bike back
then, called ‘Time Machine’,
was an all wood and brass
homage to HG Wells and his
famous novel - the wheels, for example,
were made in lignum vitae - a wood so
dense, strong, hard, heavy and water
and salt resistant that its engineering
uses have even included as the main
shaft in nuclear powered
submarines!
Fast forward to 2016 and Sapka
also competed with ‘BSA 42’, a
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250 cc 1961 B
in the Cafe Rac
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with its Ultima
primary, DNA
showcased bra
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