AMD World Championship Sets Records, Russian Builder Scoops the Win for First Time

Monday 29th Oct 2018

The 13th AMD World Championship of Custom Bike Building, staged at INTERMOT Customized, Cologne, October 3-7, is widely being hailed as a success, with the standards and numbers of bikes entered reaching standards and numbers not seen since the event moved to Europe, or before.

At 85 individual builders, the number of competitors is a new record, as anticipated, but so too is the number of countries - they came from 30 different countries, including some (Indonesia, Malaysia and India) for the first time as the global passion for custom motorcycles continues to spread around the world.

At 98 the number of bikes was also a record since the two bikes per competitor maximum was introduced 12 years ago, and although estimates are always tricky, at around 150,000 visitors, the 'AMD' and INTERMOT Customized again confirmed its status as the largest international custom show and custom motorcycle industry expo ever seen.