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.
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| 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 |
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| Medaza Cycles came fifth in the 2018 World Championship with ‘Stechmücke’ |
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 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