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AGM Saddlebags: Owned by PB Germany, the AGM brand is one of
Europe’s leading leather saddlebag makers. Founded nearly 30 years ago,
it sells its massive range of custom bike oriented designs worldwide to
dealers and distributors; www.agm-bikers.com
URAL: From Russia with love - love for the unique heritage and
authenticity that an immensely storied heritage that this most
idiosyncratic of brands carries with it into the 21st century. Intrinsically
linked to the politics of the Eastern Front during WWII, and forever
associated with sidecars, the brand continues to sell popular,
straightforward, new generation two-wheel drive workhorses that eat
the toughest of terrain and satisfy a yearning for simpler times and
robust, repairable machines that are all about fun - “Who will you ride
with?”; www.ural.com
Nolan Group: INTERMOT Customized gave the legendary Italian
motorcycle helmet manufacturer the chance to show that there is more
to the Nolan brand than advanced full-face street and race helmets, but
with the company’s half shells, modular/flip-up designs and advanced
rider communications technology, cruiser riders can benefit from decades
of R&D investment too; www.nolan.it
Detlev Louis: For the first time this year, the AMD World Championship of
Custom Bike Building featured a ‘Public Choice’ prize for Hall 10 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, and these days under the
ownership of Warren Buffett’s Omaha, Nebraska based Berkshire
Hathaway, 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 concept in the motorcycle
industry in Europe in the 1960s; www.louis.de
Fred Kodlin Motorcycles: One of Europe’s best known custom bike
builders, noted for his ‘Murdercycles’, his own brand parts designs
include fenders, swingarms, exhausts, handlebars, grips, mirrors, and a
slew of Sportster conversion options. From his first bike, a Zündapp
moped in 1973, to his latest conversion, a 2019 Road Glide, Kodlin has
been stripping them, building them, converting them and riding them for
45 years and counting; www.kodlin.com
Rusty Pistons: Owned by the company behind the Biker’s Crown retail
network and Tribolite riding jeans brand in the Czech Republic, the Rusty
Pistons apparel program is as authentically retro, Rock-n-Roll and
righteous as they come; www.rustypistons.eu
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