American Motorcycle Dealer AMD 232 November 2018 | Page 28

Dmitry Golubchikov ‘Insomnia’ Zillers Garage RUSSIA off replica of what itself was a handmade one-off JAP engined racer, of over a century ago, that was built by North London Garage (NLG) in England to hold the then World Landspeed record. Fifth place was taken by 2013 AMD World Champions Don Cronin and Mick O’Shea of Medaza Cycles (Ireland) with ‘Stechmücke’, a remarkable re- imagining of a 1981 MZ250 - complete with 1920s art deco streamliner styling. In total 98 bikes competed at this year’s AMD World Championship, entered by 85 individual competitors from 30 different countries including as far afield as the United States, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Indonesia and India. The ever-popular Modified Harley-Davidson World Championship was won by Julian von Oheimb of One Way Machine with ‘Silver Storm’, a 1450 cc 2001 Softail Deuce. In an extremely high quality field, this year’s Retro Modified win was taken by Verner Ortis of VM Cycles of Italy, with a 1942 WLA SV 750 cc engined Flathead