American Motorcycle Dealer AMD 232 November 2018 | Page 14

“It Was Rammed” No exaggeration, the aisles of the 240,000 sq ft Hall 10, which staged INTERMOT Customized and the AMD World Championship of Custom Bike Building, were crammed with people from around 9:30 am through to within an hour or so of the 6:00 pm close on each of the first four of the five public attendance days; even the generally slower Sunday was noticeably busier than in prior years. The combined Press and Dealer day was also more crowded than we’d seen before and estimates put the INTERMOT Customized attendance at around 150,000 with INTERMOT as a whole pulling around the same attendance as 2016 - some 220,000 people. This confirms INTERMOT Customized and the ‘AMD’ as a major draw for the whole of the motorcycle industry, as the best attended indoor international custom industry expo there has ever been, anywhere, and as the headquarters event for the international custom market in the 21st century - a Parallel Universe of business opportunity. Zodiac International: The oldest of the specialty V-twin distributors in Europe, and based in the Netherlands with sales offices and agents in all of Europe’s main markets, Zodiac has always been well known for its relationship with its dealers, multi-lingual catalogs and newsletters and focus on the leading U.S. brands, backed up by respected own brand product lines; www.zodiac.nl 14 AMERICAN MOTORCYCLE DEALER - NOVEMBER 2018 Robin Bradley Publisher [email protected] Pictures by Ben Oag [email protected] Harley-Davidson: Like BMW and other OEMs, Harley had two booths at INTERMOT, with its INTERMOT Customized Hall 10 custom Dark Custom showcase alongside the AMD World Championship bikes; www.harley-davidson.de www.AMDchampionship.com