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have always been trying to achieve.
“We felt we needed ‘Proof of
Concept’ for BBE before we were fully
in a position to understand the best
way forward for the Championship
competitor and BBE exhibitor
communities. We needed to create a
forum that champions motorcycle
modification and parts and accessory
sales of all kinds. We have achieved a
good start, and this formula is a
solution that guarantees a truly robust
long-term foundation on which to be
able to do so.
“Although the radio-silence

concerning 2014 plans has been
protracted and frustrating, it has been
a necessary step sideways in order to
be able to make what by any measure
is a giant leap forward. At all stages
this project has been about making
good decisions rather than quick
decisions. An agreement of this
magnitude has warranted careful
consideration and precise attention to
those devilish details.”
Speaking on behalf of Koelnmesse,
INTERMOT Project Manager Ingo
Riedeberger says that “we are
delighted to have made a multi-year
agreement to host the AMD World
Championship.

INTERMOT

KÖLN · COLOGNE
01. – 05.10. 2014

The AMD World Championship of Custom Bike Building celebrated its 10th
anniversary and first ever appearance in Europe at the Big Bike Europe Expo
in May last year. It will now appear annually at Koelnmesse, alternating
between INTERMOT and Big Bike Europe every October

“With AMD’s help, through its
custom show affiliation programme,
we have made progress in developing
the custom content of INTERMOT in
line with our ambition to make sure
that Europe’s leading international
motorcycle industry and enthusiast
expo can speak effectively to all
sectors of the international powered
two-wheel industry.

“This latest stage in our relationship
with AMD marks an exciting
development. One that will bring
considerable benefit to INTERMOT’s
visitors, its exhibitor profile, and to the
custom industry itself.”
Full details of the Championship
classes and schedule, and of exhibitor
opportunities at the AMD World
Championship at INTERMOT in
October will be released soon.
Details about Big Bike Europe and
AMD World Championship staging at
the Cologne Expo Centre in autumn
2015 and beyond will be released later
this year.
Organiser Robin Bradley concluded
by saying: “I think we over-achieved in
organisational and conceptual terms
in 2013, leaving us with a need to
build a convincing attendance in a
shorter period of time than we had
anticipated.
“By being able to help INTERMOT
consolidate the efforts it has already
made to offer a convincing custom
industry experience for their visitors,
and by allowing the parts and
performance aftermarket to use BBE
as a biennial ‘fill-in’ for the years when
INTERMOT is not staged, meets the
needs of the custom community and
international parts, accessory and
performance industry in spades!”
www.amdchampionship.com

German motorcycle sales up 1.31% in 2013
NEW PTW registrations in
Germany were up by 12.64
percent in December 2013 (2,005
units) and for the year as a
whole, registrations were up 1.31
percent at 129,357 registered,

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compared to 127,680 in 2012.
Within that figure, motorcycle
registrations were up 19.51
percent in December 2013 (1,274
units registered compared to
1,066 for December 2012).

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This resulted in total motorcycle
registrations for the full year of
2013 being up 2.65 percent
(87,423 units, from 85,169 in
2012).
This marks the fourth

consecutive year of modest
growth for new motorcycle
registrations in Germany, and the
market has now climbed to
about the 86,305 figure seen in
2009.
In total PTW new unit
registrations, the German market
has also now seen a further
consecutive year of (modest)
overall growth - the 2014
benchmark for the IVM, the
German Motorcycle Industry
Association, will be to sustain
this growth into a fifth straight
year, and see if the trend can be
accelerated sufficiently to reach
the 137,045 registrations seen in
2009 (2008 saw 166,282 total
PTW registered in Germany).