World Championship III heads for Sturgis

February 9, 2006

AMD is taking its third annual Official World Championship of Custom Bike Building to Sturgis for 2006.

Often regarded as the spiritual home of the custom bike lifestyle, we have always seen the Official World Championship as an important way to add value to existing industry events.

As was seen at Las Vegas in November the HUGE investment in time, effort and hard cash that the custom v-twin builder community is making in competing at the world's most prestigious bike show represents a staggering sum of money and a major logistical exercise by often quite small businesses.

Therefore the decision to hold the show during Sturgis allows us to repay the enthusiasm of the competitor community by staging the World Championship at an event that many competitors will be attending anyway.

Initially this is a one-year 2006-only announcement. However subject to the outcome of current discussions with a number of other organizations (we still believe in collaboration rather than self aggrandizement!) we hope to be in a position to confirm long-term venue and date plans for the Official World Championship within the next few months.

Meanwhile confirmed details of dates and location (classes, prizes and all other details) for 2006 will be e-mailed to you, posted on the event website (www.amdproshow.com ... check out the forums) and published in AMD soon.

We are presently working on the next European Championship (being held at the end of March in Germany) so plan to have all final details for the 2006 Official World Championship at Sturgis in early August finalized shortly thereafter.

All enquiries to Neil 'ShowMaster' Blaber at neil@amdproshow.com.