Custom Bike Show
Norrtällje, Sweden
7 June 2014
The 40th annual Custom Bike Show held in Norrtällje’s Societetsparken, featured 240 bikes entered in 7 classes and over 12,000 visitors from around Europe.
Organised by Twin Club MC this is one of the oldest custom bike competitions and shows in the world, and this year was also the tenth anniversary of its affiliation to the AMD World Championship of Custom Bike Building. Competing builders travelled from across Scandinavia and Europe, and this year included an entry from Japan and two from Australia.
Three separate judging systems are used to determine the winners, with a jury of industry professionals deciding on three World Championship affiliate prizes and Best in Show, the competitors themselves voting for the class prizes, and a Public Choice winner - the prize being a RevTech engine courtesy of Custom Chrome Europe.
Finland again featured prominently amongst the awards and provided two of the three Best in Show winners who will travel to Cologne to compete at the World Championship held at INTERMOT in October.
The Best in Show and Chopper class winning bike, “WSA” by Veikko Sikiö of Juupajoki, Finland, was entirely hand-built - including the engine.
The runner-up prize went to Sweden’s Eddie Gustafsson for “Speedy”, a street racer based on a modified speedway engine.
Finnish club Aliens MC provided last year’s winning bike built by Alpo Varis and he will be joined in Cologne in October by club-mate Lunka who won the Custom class and scooped Best in Show 2nd runner-up prize with his Sportster-derived creation “Seahorse”.
All three winners gain automatic entry to the World Championship of Custom Bike Building and a 2,000 euro prize to be used against the expense of competing at INTERMOT in Germany later this year.
Our thanks, as always, to Twin Club MC for their meticulous organization, Custom Chrome Europe, Motorcycle Storehouse and W&W Cycles for their support of the event, and the City of Norrtällje management for their biker-friendly attitude towards this popular annual event, and for use of the central park for the bike show.
www.custombikeshow.se