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This edition includes... Ride-In-Bike Show - Faak 2018 • Cherokee Blue Ridge Run
MC XIII Cesis Custom Bike Show, Latvia • Sapka Muvek’s ‘Black Brass’
Custom Chrome International
Bike Show Series
Ride-In-Bike Show -
Faak 2018, September 8th
This year’s annual ‘Faak Rally’, as Harley’s
European Bike Week in Austria is also known, will
see Custom Chrome Europe staging its 16th Ride-
In Bike Show at the Arneitz Custom Show and is
inviting Europe’s best customizers to present their
new custom creations.
Established in 2003, the Custom Chrome Europe
Ride-In-Bike Show is among the best standards for
Every year thousands of visitors crowd
into the CCE Ride-In Bike Show at Faak,
Austria, in September
Premiering at European Bike Week 2017,
“Balance” by MIB of Feldkirchen near Munich is
one of the most radical bikes built in Germany
this year
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ride-ins in Europe and often sees winning bikes go
on to do well in the AMD World Championship at
INTERMOT Customized in Cologne, Germany, a
month later.
Indeed, it was out of Custom Chrome’s Bike Show
program at the popular and iconic Dealer Shows
from the mid-1990s that the AMD World
Championship was ultimately born as a sister
event to the European Championship they hosted.
The 2018 event will offer a showcase for
professional and private customizers alike. Their
bikes will grace the pages of international custom
bike magazines for weeks to come - and many of
the previous winners could also have been seen at
the Custom Gallery at Harley-Davidson’s 115th
European Anniversary in Prague/CZ in July this
year.
Trophies and other prizes gi