2010 World Championship of Custom Bike Building - RESULTS

Freddie 'Krugger' Bertrand is now wearing the World Champions' ring after being named the 2010 AMD World Championship of Custom Bike Building.

The bike with which he claimed the title was built for Veon Motorcycle's owner Peer Toftner and features a unique electronically adjustable frame system developed by Peer (pictured, left, with World Champion 'Freddie' Krugger) in conjunction with Dutch designer Mark van der Kwaak. At the flick of a switch the V-Rod engined bike can be transformed from a low-riding cruiser with long rake to sport bike mode with a shorter wheelbase and steeper rake. The radical machine even has two sets of foot controls to match each style of riding.

Krugger's win in the Championship follows on from third places in both 2004 and 2005, a 13th place in 2008 and another third last year.

The highest placed domestic builder for 2010 is second placed Mark Daley of Thunder Struck Cycles. His placing reflects the level of engineering involved in the building of the engine in his entry - Sniper. The Indian Powerplus motor used in the bike has had the inlet and outlet ports reversed with the heads welded and machined to allow the correct sized valves to be operated by the reverse grind cam.

For the first time in the Championship's history a builder from Belarus brought a bike to Sturgis and was duly rewarded with third place for his efforts. Yuri Shif, the proprietor of Yuri Shif Customs took inspiration from German '30s race cars for the styling of his long, low bike and then took the German influence even further by joining two early BMW Boxer engines at the cranks. Not satisfied with the engineering needed to achieve that feat he then reversed the rear pair of heads to allow him to feed all four inlet ports via a supercharger.

Having already placed in the top three in the Freestyle Class at the 2010 World Championship of Custom Bike Building it became a double celebration for Yuri Shif when he was called to the stage to receive the Metric World Champion's trophy too, having won the class by a clear margin.

The European domination of the results sheet continued with Sergio Bayarri, of Sbay Motor Company claiming the win in the Production Manufacturer class with his race inspired Flying, The bike, which replicates Ducati geometry has been developed and tested on European race track and the tires show the strain of hard riding on the track.

With support from Harley-Davidson and a Screamin' Eagle motor being awarded to the winner, the competition in the Modified Harley class was the stiffest ever seen in the events history, and once again it was a European builder that triumphed. Shaw Harley-Davidson's Strike True II polled the votes in the judging and saw the trophy heading to the UK, another first in the show's seven-year history.

Full results are available at www.amdchampionship.com/results/2010-worlds-sturgis

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Photography credit: Studio bike shots by Horst Roesler and Frank Sander; Stage photography by Duncan Moore

Freestyle 1st place, World Champion, Krugger Motorcycles (Belgium)	Freestyle 2nd place, Thunderstruck Custom Bikes (USA)	Freestyle 3rd place, Yuri Shif Customs (Belarus)	Freestyle 4th place, Garage65 (Italy)
Freestyle 5th place, Speed Shop Design (USA)	Freestyle 6th place, Blech & Drueber (Austria)	Freestyle 7th place, Hardly Civilized (USA)	Freestyle 8th place, Cook Customs (USA)
Freestyle 9th place, Fine Custom Mechanics (Russia)	Freestyle 10th place, Speed Dept & Mayhem Customs (Switzerland)	Modified Harley-Davidson 1st place, Shaw Harley-Davidson (UK)	Modified Harley-Davidson 2nd place, Cooper Smithing Co (USA)
Modified Harley-Davidson 3rd place, Hardninechoppers (Switzerland)	Production Manufacturer 1st place, Sbay Motor Co (Spain)	Production Manufacturer 2nd place, Darwin Motorcycles (USA)	Production Manufacturer 3rd place, Kiwi Indian MotorCycle Co (USA)
Metric Championship 1st place, Metric World Champion, Yuri Shif Custom (Belarus)	Metric Championship 2nd place, Speed Shop Design (USA)	Metric Championship 3rd place, Blech & Drueber (Austria)

Freestyle Class - Results

	Business Name	Bike Name	City	Country	Builder Name
1st	Krugger Motorcycles	Veon	Basse Bodeux	Belgium	Fred Krugger
2nd	Thunderstruck Custom Bikes	Sniper	Medford, OR	USA	Mark Daley
3rd	Yuri Shif Custom (YSC)	The Machine	Minsk	Belarus	Yuri Shif
4th	Garage65	Kcosmodrive	Viareggio (LU)	Italy	Marco Cinquini
5th	Speed Shop Design	Beezerker	Seattle, WA	USA	Chris Flechtner
6th	Blech & Drueber	Walton	Rohr im Burgenland	Austria	Bernhard Naumann & Martin Lagler
7th	Hardly Civilized	Quantum Leap	Greensboro, NC	USA	Eddie Alexander Meeks
8th	Cook Customs	Norton	Milwaukee, WI	USA	Dave Cook
9th	Fine Custom Mechanics	Moscow	Moscow	Russian Federation	Sergey Maltsev
10th	Speed Dept & Mayhem Kustomz	Energicer	Aesch/BL	Switzerland	Speed Dept & Mayhem Kustomz

Modified Harley-Davidson Class sponsored by Harley-Davidson - Results

	Business Name	Bike Name	City	Country	Builder Name
1st	Shaw Harley-Davidson	Strike True II	Holmes Hill, East Sussex	UK	Shaw Speed and Custom
2nd	Cooper Smithing Co	The Jefferson	Buckley, WA	USA	Joe Cooper
3rd	Hardninechoppers	D'MX	Bern	Switzerland	Danny Schneider

Production Manufacturer Class sponsored by ACCEL Motorcycle Products - Results

	Business Name	Bike Name	City	Country	Builder Name
1st	Sbay Motor Co	Flying	Sotogrande, Cadiz	Spain	Sergio Bayarri
2nd	Darwin Motorcycles	Brawler GTR	Oklahoma City, OK	USA	Dar, Tim, Bryan
3rd	Kiwi Indian MotorCycle Co	Kiwi Indian Factory Board Tracker	Riverside, CA	USA	Kiwi Indian M/C Co, Travis Bonde, Mike Tomas

Metric World Championship - Results

	Business Name	Bike Name	City	Country	Builder Name
1st	Yuri Shif Custom (YSC)	The Machine	Minsk	Belarus	Yuri Shif
2nd	Speed Shop Design	Beezerker	Seattle, WA	USA	Chris Flechtner
3rd	Blech & Drueber	Walton	Rohr im Burgenland	Austria	Bernhard Naumann & Martin Lagler