American Motorcycle Dealer AMD 232 November 2018 | Page 28

Dmitry Golubchikov
‘Insomnia’
Zillers
Garage
RUSSIA
off replica of what itself was a handmade one-off JAP
engined racer, of over a century ago, that was built
by North London Garage (NLG) in England to hold
the then World Landspeed record.
Fifth place was taken by 2013 AMD World
Champions Don Cronin and Mick O’Shea of Medaza
Cycles (Ireland) with ‘Stechmücke’, a remarkable re-
imagining of a 1981 MZ250 - complete with 1920s
art deco streamliner styling.
In total 98 bikes competed at this year’s AMD World
Championship, entered by 85 individual competitors
from 30 different countries including as far afield as
the United States, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea,
Indonesia and India.
The ever-popular Modified Harley-Davidson World
Championship was won by Julian von Oheimb of One
Way Machine with ‘Silver Storm’, a 1450 cc 2001
Softail Deuce.
In an extremely high quality field, this year’s Retro
Modified win was taken by Verner Ortis of VM Cycles
of Italy, with a 1942 WLA SV 750 cc engined Flathead