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RUSSIA SCOOPS 2018 AMD WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP OF CUSTOM BIKE BUILDING 98 BIKES 85 COMPETITORS 30 COUNTRIES Robin Bradley Publisher [email protected] ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY Sara Viney [email protected] PICTURES BY Onno Wieringa www.madnessphotography.eu Frank Sander www.thunder-media-service.de Russian customizer Dmitry Golubchikov (Zillers Garage) scored a convincing first place to become the 2018 AVON World Champion at the 13th AMD World Championship of Custom Bike Building, INTERMOT Customized, Cologne, Germany. ith ‘Insomnia’, Zillers’ Yamaha SR 400 based masterpiece, rising star Dmitry Golubchikov takes the coveted title of Avon World Champion of Custom Bike Building for the next two years, and becomes the first winner of the AMD World Championship from Eastern Europe. Sponsored by leading custom tire manufacturer Avon Tyres, the Freestyle class at the AMD World Championship is internationally recognized as being the premier showcase for originality, innovation craftsmanship and advanced custom motorcycle design and engineering. In a very broad international spread of top honours, second place and first reserve champion went to Omar Jumiran of Eastern Bobber Custom Work, all the way from Malaysia for ‘BoneX’, his exquisite handbuilt, race-inspired AJS 350 engined drag style one-off special. Omar qualified to compete at the AMD World Championship as a result of his win at W www.AMDchampionship.com MotoNation, Kuala Lumpur in 2017, one of the international network of AMD’s official affiliate custom bike shows. Third place and second reserve champion went to Károly Orkonyi of Marusius from Hungary for ‘Speedster King’, his futuristic 1700 cc handmade rigid. Altogether 51 bikes competed in Freestyle, with no less than 13 different countries featuring in the top 20. Fourth place went to Pavel Malanik from the Czech Republic for ‘Beast of Brooklands’, a handmade one- AMERICAN MOTORCYCLE DEALER - NOVEMBER 2018 27