American Motorcycle Dealer AMD 235 February 2019 | Page 16

Dublin 2019 – be there!
With motorcycle sales in the small but
enthusiastic Irish motorcycle market on
the rise, the biennial Carole Nash Irish
Motorbike and Scooter Show will again
be staged at the Royal Dublin Society
(RDS) expo complex and showgrounds
in the Irish capital from March 1st to 3rd
2019.
As one of the longest standing AMD
World Championship Official Affiliate
events, with it will be staged the Irish
Custom Bike Championship with not
one, but two opportunities to win
expenses paid entry to compete at the
next ‘AMD’ at INTERMOT Customized
in Germany in October 2020.
One prize will go to the wining domestic
Irish custom bike builder, with the
second to the builder of the bike judged
to be the best ‘international’ entrant at
this year’s show.
If ever a show has had a positive effect
on helping to create and champion a
national custom motorcycle market, the
‘Dublin Show’ is a case study of
excellence, with Irish builders regularly
appearing in the Top 20 at the World
Championship and taking the win in
2013 when Don Cronin and Michael
O’Shea of Medaza Cycles fame
(Bandon, Co. Cork) scooped the most
prestigious custom bike competition
prize in the world with ‘Rondine’, their
much admired 1971 Nuovo Falcone
500 engined custom Moto Guzzi with
its one-off girder style front end.
The Irish custom motorcycle market
may be small, but it is growing, and the
quality of the craftsmanship and design
and engineering innovation that it
Highlights on 2013 AMD World Championship winning bike Rondine include
the use of a heavily modified V-Rod swingarm to create the girder style fork,
V-Rod wheels at both ends and hand-beaten aluminum bodywork
Medaza Cycles came fifth in the
2018 World Championship with
‘Stechmücke’
produces every time the ‘Dublin Show’
is staged is up there with the best in the
world – as is the hospitality and fun to
be had at the show itself. It carries a ‘5-
Star Highly Recommended’ rating from
the team here at AMD Magazine and
all those who have had the pleasure of
spending a long weekend in Dublin for
the show.
www.irishmotorbikeshow.com