After three and a half days of competition the AMD Official World Championship of Custom Bike Building in the Champions Hall in the heart of Sturgis, South Dakota, the winner of the best Freestyle Custom was announced. What began over a year ago with a series of 12 Affiliate shows, covering four continents and an estimated more than 2,000 competitors, has culminated at the pinnacle of motorcycling’s Holy Grail.
Since the opening of the hall on Sunday morning, thousands upon thousands of spectators have poured over the 68 motorcycles, which represent 13 different countries. Judging of the event is done by ‘peer review’, in that all competitors collectively decide the World Champion, together with a select VIP panel drawn from the press and aftermarket industry, all votes counting equally towards the final result.
For an unprecedented third time, Canadian Roger Goldammer from Kelowna, BC got the top honours being named the World Champion and overall winner of the Freestyle Class with his bike named ‘Goldmember’. This is the third time in five years Roger has come out on top of the competition.
Roger’s winning entry for 2008 World Championship of Custom Bike Building is the same bike that he competed with on the Bonneville Salt Flats in September of 2007, a liquid-cooled, single-cylinder (V-Twin with the rear cylinder lopped off), fuel-injected blown sport bike, with nitrous that achieved a top speed of just over 164 mph, as he took home a world speed record with an average speed of 160+ mph.
Goldammer proved to the world that a custom motorcycle can have beauty, creative design and outstanding technical engineering to compete on the world stage in any category.
Congratulations Roger on another exquisite motorcycle.
