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AMD World Championship Sets
Records, Russian Builder Scoops
the Win for First Time
he 13th AMD World
Championship of Custom
Bike Building, staged at
INTERMOT Customized,
Cologne, October 3-7, is widely
being hailed as a success, with the
standards and numbers of bikes
entered reaching standards and
numbers not seen since the event
moved to Europe, or before.
At 85 individual builders, the number of
competitors is a new record, as
anticipated, but so too is the
number of countries - they came
from 30 different countries, including
some (Indonesia, Malaysia and India) for
the first time as the global passion for
custom motorcycles continues to spread
around the world.
At 98 the number of bikes was also a
record since the two bikes per competitor
maximum was introduced 12 years ago,
and although estimates are always
tricky, at around 150,000 visitors, the
‘AMD’ and INTERMOT Customized again
confirmed its status as the largest
international custom show and custom
motorcycle industry expo ever seen.
The overall attendance at INTERMOT
was a record, equalling 220,000 visitors
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from nearly 100 countries, with over
1,000 vendors listed, more than 200 of
them in Hall 10, where the ‘AMD’ is
staged - at over 240,000 sqft INTERMOT
Customized occupies the largest net
floor area hall used for the Expo.
The win was taken by a builder from
Eastern Europe for the first time - rising
star Dmitry Golubchikov, Zillers Garage,
Russia, becoming the Avon World
Champion with ‘Insomnia’, a compressor
equipped Yamaha SR 400 in a
handmade frame with torsion bar
suspension front and rear. This was one
of two bikes Dmitry had in the
competition, additionally scooping
second place in the Cafe Racer class.
Malaysian builder Omar Jumiran
(Eastern Bobber Custom Worx) was
second with ‘BoneX’, an exquisite,
handbuilt, race-inspired AJS 350 engined
drag style one-off special. Omar reached
the ‘AMD’ finals by winning MotoNation,
the Malaysian affiliate custom bike show
in 2017.
Third place went to Hungary (Marusius)
- Karoly Orkonyi with ‘Speedster King’, a
swoopy, futuristic rigid with a handmade
1700 cc engine - with cylinders and
heads from a 1980s East German Robur
LO 3001 truck!
The largest national contingent of
competitors were the 18 builders
from Italy who entered 21 bikes in
total - over a fifth of all the bikes
entered - with eight of the Italian builders
taking a trophy home for scooping a
podium place in one or other of the
classes.
Two American builders, who won
through to the event courtesy of
AIMExpo, waved the flag for the United
States, both in the Avon Freestyle class,
with Tim Dixon of Gas Axe Chop Shop
(Ten Mile, Tennessee) just outside the Top
20 with ‘Pennie Lane’ and Jordan
Dickinson of Union Speed & Style
(Monticello, Minnesota) voted 8th with
‘SourKraut’.
See full results and pictures, starting
page 27.
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2018 Avon Freestyle winners, from left: Omar Jumiran, Malaysia, 2nd;
Dmitry Golubchikov, Russia, Avon World Champion; Károly Orkonyi, Hungary, 3rd