American Motorcycle Dealer AMD 232 November 2018 | Page 35

™ Arkadiusz Pawlukowicz ‘DRAG 360’ Szajba's Garage PUBLIC CHOICE For the first time this year, the AMD World Championship of Custom Bike Building featured a public vote for the popular choice among visitors and our partner for the vote was the leading Hamburg, Germany headquartered motorcycle parts, accessory and gear retailer Detlev Louis. Tracing its roots back more than 80 years, these days under the ownership of Warren Buffett’s Omaha Nebraska based Berkshire Hathaway - one of the very few businesses the company owns in Europe. Louis has over 80 retail stores in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and a thriving online mail order business, having been one of the originators of the mail order catalog POLAND concept in the motorcycle industry in Europe in the 1960s. As an exhibitor in Hall 10 at INTERMOT Customized, and a returning competitor in the AMD World Championship, Louis’ consumer reach makes them an ideal partner for a public vote. With one attendee winning a € 500,00 gift voucher to spends in Louis stores, for being among those who voted for the eventual winner. Hundreds of votes were cast and the clear winner, scooping over 10 percent of all the public votes, was Arkadiusz Pawlukowicz of Szajba's Garage from Poland, for his 1500 Honda Goldwing ‘Drag 360’, who scooped a workshop lift and tool box. PHOTOGRAPHING THE PHOTOGRAPHERS AMD’s Ben Oag captures 100+ years of custom motorcycle industry photographing experience, left to right Onno Wieringa, Michael Lichter, Horst Rösler & Frank Sander 2020 CLASS STRUCTURE FREESTYLE (no change) RETRO MODIFIED (no change) New - MODIFIED AMERICAN V-TWIN (was Modified Harley-Davidson) New - CAFE AND STREET PERFORMANCE (two classes combined) New - MODIFIED STREET CUSTOMS (new class) New - ‘CROSS-CLASS’ AWARD - Alternative Power (E-bike, Hybrid, Hydrogen, Fuel Cell), to be chosen from across all the classes www.AMDchampionship.com AMERICAN MOTORCYCLE DEALER - NOVEMBER 2018 35