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Arkadiusz Pawlukowicz
‘DRAG 360’
Szajba's Garage
PUBLIC CHOICE
For the first time this year, the AMD World
Championship of Custom Bike Building
featured a public vote for the popular
choice among visitors and our partner for
the vote was the leading Hamburg,
Germany headquartered motorcycle parts,
accessory and gear retailer Detlev Louis.
Tracing its roots back more than 80 years,
these days under the ownership of Warren
Buffett’s Omaha Nebraska based Berkshire
Hathaway - one of the very few businesses
the company owns in Europe.
Louis has over 80 retail stores in Germany,
Austria and Switzerland and a thriving
online mail order business, having been one
of the originators of the mail order catalog
POLAND
concept in the motorcycle industry in
Europe in the 1960s.
As an exhibitor in Hall 10 at INTERMOT
Customized, and a returning competitor in
the AMD World Championship, Louis’
consumer reach makes them an ideal
partner for a public vote. With one attendee
winning a € 500,00 gift voucher to spends in
Louis stores, for being among those who
voted for the eventual winner.
Hundreds of votes were cast and the clear
winner, scooping over 10 percent of all the
public votes, was Arkadiusz Pawlukowicz of
Szajba's Garage from Poland, for his 1500
Honda Goldwing ‘Drag 360’, who scooped a
workshop lift and tool box.
PHOTOGRAPHING THE PHOTOGRAPHERS
AMD’s Ben Oag captures
100+ years of custom
motorcycle industry
photographing
experience,
left to right
Onno Wieringa,
Michael Lichter,
Horst Rösler
& Frank Sander
2020 CLASS
STRUCTURE
FREESTYLE (no change)
RETRO MODIFIED (no change)
New - MODIFIED AMERICAN V-TWIN
(was Modified Harley-Davidson)
New - CAFE AND STREET
PERFORMANCE (two classes combined)
New - MODIFIED STREET CUSTOMS
(new class)
New - ‘CROSS-CLASS’ AWARD -
Alternative Power (E-bike, Hybrid,
Hydrogen, Fuel Cell), to be chosen from
across all the classes
www.AMDchampionship.com
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