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AMD 2020 World Championship
Affiliate Program - Nine Shows
in Eight Countries Worldwide
ith ten months to go
for entries to the
2020 AMD World
Championship of
Custom Bike Building at
INTERMOT Customized in
Germany (Cologne, October 6-
11), news of four new additions
to the World Championship's
worldwide program of Official
Affiliate events.
In what will be a busy year of existing
events and newly joined custom bike
shows, 2020 will see no less than nine
affiliate custom bike shows, in eight
countries worldwide, with two of them
in the United States, all sending their
winners, and sometimes multiple
qualifying builders, to compete at
'AMD XIV'.
First up in 2020 (March 5-8) will be a
return to the Czech Republic for
AMD's Affiliate Program with a new
show, The Czech Custom Grand
Prix (in conjunction with
MOTOSALON - the annual Czech
motorcycle industry backed Expo) at
Brno - the spiritual home of
W
motorcycling in the Czech Republic
(the annual Czech MotoGP is held at
the Automotodrom Brno later in the
year). Brno is in the south east of the
country and is very close to, and easily
accessible from, Poland, Slovakia,
Austria and Hungary, making it an
ideal central European Affiliate venue.
The 14th AMD World Championship
will be staged at INTERMOT
Customized, Cologne, Germany,
October 6-11, 2020
The same weekend, around 1,500
miles south, the World Championship
Affiliate Program makes a return to
Madrid for another new addition for
2020 - Motorama Madrid (March
6-8) at the 1960s all-glass designer
loveliness of the Pabellon de Cristal
with its spectacular views over the
famous Madrid Royal Palace and
cathedral.
'The Skinny'
'The Skinny', a 1975 1,000 cc Ironhead XLCH by Chop Works/Radikal
Choppers (Fabrizio Caoduro) in Italy, wears its inspirations for all to
see - it’s the 1970s all over baby, scoring a much deserved 7th place
in the Avon Freestyle Class at the 2018 AMD World Championship
at INTERMOT Customized (Cologne, Germany).
April sees an Affiliate Program regular,
the Moscow Custom and Tuning
Show (April 3-4), where Russia's
Dima Golubchikov (Zillers Garage) will
no doubt be feted as a hero as
Russia's, indeed eastern Europe's, first
ever AMD World Champion following
his 2018 win. Dima won through to
the World Championship in 2018 from
the Custom and Tuning Show.
Then it is on to Italy for an Affiliate
Program stalwart - Biker Fest, north
of Venice on Italy's Adriatic coast. A
long-term AMD partner, 'Biker Fest'
regularly provides the World
Championship with multiple
competitors - Italian customizers
regularly score highly at the 'AMD',
and it can't be long before the show
hosts an Italian builder who goes on
to be the World Champion, such are
the high standards of the custom
market in Italy.
The following weekend sees a first ever
Affiliate show in Brazil - 'Bike & Art'
Moto Brasil - in association with the
Salao Moto Brasil, at the Parc
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