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Tim Dixon Scoops ‘King of Builders’ Title at
J&P UBCBS Championship Round, Chicago
The Progressive International
Motorcycle Shows (IMS) series,
featuring the 2018-2019 J&P
Cycles Ultimate Builder Custom
Bike Show (UBCBS), reached a
crescendo at Chicago on
February 17 with the final in the
seven-event series featuring the
championship round.
The championship round Freestyle
class saw the win and ‘King of the
Builders’ crown and $10,000 cash
prize being taken by Tim Dixon of Gas
Axe Chop Shop, Ten Mile, Tennessee,
with the bike that saw him take the
win at New York earlier in the series -
a Shovelhead powered ground-up
new build hardtail chopper with
Springer front end that oozes class,
detail and authenticity in equal
measure.
Second place was taken by Wayne
Burgess with his radically raked, hot
rod themed 2006 Shovelhead.
The championship round Freestyle class saw the win and ‘King of the Builders’ crown and
$10,000 cash prize being taken by Tim Dixon of Gas Axe Chop Shop
Custom Chopper.”
Winners were selected based upon
“creativity, craftsmanship and building
ability” by a panel of judges that
included Show Director Bob Kay, Kevin
Dunworth (Loaded Gun Customs,
Selbyville, DE), former UBCBS
champion Kyle Shorey (Shadetree
Fabrications, Southlake, TX), Mark
Cresswell (organizer of the annual
Cherokee Blue Ridge Run) and Max
Ness.
At the time of his New York win, Tim
Dixon, who collaborated with painter
Leatherwood Motorcycle Works, told
Now in its ninth year, the J&P UBCBS
is an “elite-level custom motorcycle
builder competition featuring
hundreds of builders across the IMS
tour, cultivating the custom scene and
offering builders a chance of
thousands in cash and prizes across
the tour”. Those prizes included a
Harley-Davidson motor, a pair of Arlen
Ness wheels, an HMC lift, Michelin
tires and more.
“It is a pleasure to witness the most
breathtaking custom motorcycles from
across the nation displayed
throughout the J&P Cycles Ultimate
Builder Custom Bike Show
competition,” said Bob Kay, Director,
J&P Cycles Ultimate Builder Custom
Bike Show. “The builders’ hard work
and passion is evident through the
sheer creativity and artistry that each
bike encompasses. This year’s reigning
champion, Tim Dixon, stood out in the
championship round with a 2018
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AMD Magazine that he had made
every piece he possibly could on this
build, which also won the AMD
Championship affiliate custom bike
show at the Cherokee Blue Ridge Run
in September 2018, scooping Tim the
chance to return to the AMD World
Championship in Germany in October
2020 for a second straight time.
For the wheels, Tim started with blank
rims from Ledsled and then made
hubs, spokes and flanges, all welded
with steel then silicone bronze, with
brass sleeves made for each spoke and
pressed in.
Tim told AMD: “I made a narrow
springer with tapered rear legs,
custom risers, bars and integrated an
internal throttle into the handlebars
and fabricated some leather grips from
seat material scraps. I made the bronze
inlayed headlight and have used a
Wagner yellow bulb, and came up with
a ‘61 Corvette parking light lens for the
tail light.
“The frame was also my design,
wishbone style, with drilled solid
downtubes, oval shaped neck with an
oval copper badge with my logo; I
handmade the split gas tanks,
Freestyle runner-up was taken by Wayne Burgess and Connery’s Custom Paint with a 2006 Shovelhead, hot rod
themed digger called “Nancy.” The motorcycle hosted a polished Shovelhead, diamond-cut heads, custom
exhaust, Mooneyes control pedals, taillight, front rotor, brass accents and more.
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