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Biker Fest XXXIII
Udine, Italy, May 9-12
he 33rd Biker Fest at Lignano
Sabbiadoro, Udine, Italy, (May 9-12)
hosted the Italian round of the AMD
World Championship of Custom Bike
Building Show Affiliate Series - the 8th
annual Italian Motorcycle Championship.
The culmination of a fifteen-event network
of custom bike shows held throughout Italy
and promoted by Italian custom magazine
Bikers Life, the Italian Motorcycle
Championship regularly produces star
performers for the 'AMD'.
In 2018, at INTERMOT Customized, the
largest national contingent of competitors
were the 18 builders from Italy who entered
21 bikes in total – over a fifth of all the
bikes entered - with eight of the Italian
builders taking a trophy home for scooping
a podium place in one or other of the
classes.
This Italian Motorcycle Championship was
again held at the Aquasplash Water Park,
T
Gallery Motorcycles' "Deeva", Best in Show
was based around a 1920 Harley-Davidson
JD engine, custom frame and glass oil tank
"La Veloce" by Hazard Motorcycle features a
1947 WL 45 engine with 1964 XL Sportster
cylinders and heads
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