The World Championship of Custom Bike Building 2008
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The World Championship of Custom Bike Building was first staged at Custom
Chrome's annual dealer show at their Morgan Hill, California, headquarters,
in October 2004, where it attracted 48 competitors fielding 63 bikes.
The second annual Official World Championship of Custom Bike Building was
staged at Advanstar's Big Twin West Dealer Expo in Las Vegas, November 2005.
The 2005 World Championship attracted 166 top-class entries, from 110
competitors, drawn from 14 countries and was, by common acclaim, the
greatest custom bike show ever staged or seen. In the universe.
In 2006 the Championship was hosted at Thunder Road, Sturgis, over August
5th to 7th. 100 bikes were entered by 77 competitors drawn from 11
countries, and the standard of entries was acknowledged to be even higher
than that of 2005.
Last year saw a move to Champions Hall, the WC's own purpose-built facility
on Lazelle Street, and attracted 77 entries from 71 competitors, again from
11 countries, with a record 25 international entries. Continuing the trend
of a raised standard of entries at each subsequent show, this year's
competition was agreed by the competitors to be the toughest yet, and some
of them despaired at attaining a sufficient level of fantasticness to
compete in the '09 show.
Judging of the event is done by 'peer review', in that all competitors
collectively decide the World Champion, together with a select VIP panel
drawn from the press and aftermarket industry, all votes counting equally
towards the final result.
The event was marred by the refusal of the organisers to pay the airfares, accomodation and intoxicant expenses of the Supreme Riding Soviet of the People's Republic of BIKE ME! They did, however, send us a CD, and we present what Al thought were some highlights and managed to get up on the site while Boris was busy lunching.
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