During the Intermot Show in Cologne, Germany, there is more to see than the AMD World Championship Of Custom Building. A Custom Chrome Europe judges team walk the halls to look for custom motorcycles equipped with their RevTech engines and parts. FYI, more than 30.000 RevTech V-Twin engines (88, 100, 110, 115 and 125”) have been produced to power one-off custom motorcycle or were exchanged against a Harley-Davidson engine and installed in the stock frame. The top 3 winners are rewarded with one brand new 115” RevTech engine for first place, a RevTech transmission for second placee, a RevTech 60.6 Liter/16 Gallon Oil Drum for 3rd place. And the winners are…(photography copyright H. Roesler & O. Wieringa for Cyril Huze)
1st Place. Game Over Cycles from Poland. Bike Behemoth equipped with RevTech 115” V-Twin engine.
You can’t find a more sinister look in a style unique to the Polish custom builders. Air-ride rear suspension combined with the kickstand lifting into the lower chassis when the air-suspension is pumped up to riding height.
One-off front suspension. Bodywork? I have no words.
2nd Place. Iron Worx from Belgium. Disse’s Bike built by Ives DeBruycker uses a 100” RevTech engine in a Paugco/Chica designed Gooseneck frame. Lots of Custom Chrome Europe parts, too.
3rd Place. DK Motorrad from Switzerland. The Meccano contraption is equipped with 3 RevTech chromed disc wheels. Bodywork was a headache to build and is now a lifetime of headaches for polishing…
1st place = The epitome of the Freak show custom .
2nd place = Been there … done that
3rd place = What the ? Or better yet . Why the …. would you ?
So no .. nothing even in the least bit appealing here in my opinion . Looks like we [ US ] may be taking the lead back when it comes to custom M/C’s if this bunch tells us anything
Well…The builders and/or owners are happy?
Polish builders are crazy!
another tragic waste of a few good parts.
First place looks like it’s spent it’s life working in a coal mine.
Ridiculous!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsDl1sovBqE
Guess all three were out of ideas!
Cantrell
No way. No time. No how.
1st – Mad Max meets the Terminator
2nd – Cool home built custom
3rd – A lot of out of the box thinking. Kudos.
Naw.
Looks like someone has seen some of Steve Galvin’s older work. No disrespect, just a comment. I’m glad these guys are building. Unless you solely subscribe to plunking down your cash at a dealership, what else are you to do?
Later Jay
The “Polish” winner, makes me think that as “The Motorcycle as Art” we may have just gone too far.
The whole lot of them couldn’t make a trip from NY to NJ comfortably, as a “Lover” of motorcycles and a “rider”, since 1963, this kind of stuff does’t appeal to me at all.
Aditional “Behemoth” Info: OOOOPPS! I might have to add – as I did not have that information at the time of writing – that the polish bike is actually a tribute to the 1991 founded Dark/Death Metal Band of the same name, using a lot of the stage performance/record art of the Band.
Here’s some additional information that may shine a little light on the custom built and explain the look: The paintjob gives the image of a rusted, neglected and rotten piece of machinery, but the fully ridable motorcycle is quite the opposite! When the rear end is lifted to operating and riding height, the main stand automatically folds into the bodywork. Matching wheels, belt pulley brake discs were adapted to the bodywork, which accounts for hundreds of hours in the sheet metal workshop. It has to be mentioned that the design is inspired by the 1991 founded polish Black/Death Metal band which has become famous beyond Poland. Founder Adam Michal „Nergal“ Darski has even visited the GOC workshop at Lubaczów, only 10 km from the border to Ukraine, and tested the bike. Engine and gear- box are RevTech, primary drive by BDL, all other components pretty much handmade. The shaping of the front suspension is following lead singer „Nergal“ Darskis mask of „Behemoth“ live performances. This ain‘t no poser bike – it‘s Death Metal coming alive on the road. The bike was not build FOR the band but through “inspiration” from the Band…
The Internet ist faster than we sometimes can aquire the information, so my apologies.
Where exactly was the building that burned down with the Bike Behemoth in it!?