☠ Big Twin Bikeshow and Expo 2008

Between November 7 and 9 2008 it was time again for the annual Big Twin Bikeshow and Expo (BBE), which is one of the biggest custom motorcycle and lifestyle events in Europe. For the last 9 years the BBE has also been the place to be for the Zodiac Dealershow, which brings a tradeshow in addition to the custombikeshow, with many of their American as well as european vendors exhibiting.

Zodiac is well known throughout Europe as the leading aftermarket warehouse distributor for aftermarket parts and accessories for Harley-Davidson. The BBE is also an affiliate to the AMD World Championship of Custom Bike Building, the winner of the BBE custom bike show will go to the World Championship finals during the Sturgis bike week in august 2009 on BBE’s expense. Which means that the level of the custom bikes at the show is high. The bikeshow was divided in four different categories: Old Skool, Custom, Freestyle and Chopper, with three prices for the best bikes in each category. The jury and the public voted for the extreme long and low Indian chopper built by Lasse Sundberg from Sweden. The bike has a perfect blend of old skool elements combined with a traditional long fork chopper style, the frontfork is only 42 inches overstock!!!

Lasse will be competing against the top of the world at the World Championship in Sturgis next year.

Off course the bikeshow is only a part of the event, during the weekend in the bikercafe you could find all kinds of entertainment in the form of live music and off course the erotic striptease……

The biker market presented vendors of all types, where you could find a diverse assortment of t-shirts and other lifestyle goodies….and even a Hot Rod…. The tradeshow part introduced several of the main aftermarket companies known throughout the custombikescene, like Performance Machine, Supertrapp, Accel motorcycle products, Cyron lighting, S&S Cycle, Progressive Suspension, Morris Magnetos, Spectro Oils, etcetera, etcetera…. And off course the Zodiac hall wouldn’t be the Zodiac hall without some of the fastest v-twin equipped two wheelers in the world, including the latest dragbike built by Zodiac’s general manager and multi European dragracing champion Ton Pels.

During the weekend Zodiac also hosted a big party for their dealers and vendors by invitation only, and off course PinkKatillac was also present to report on that for her loyal readers. The party was a good time for everyone who attended, with terrific food, good drinks, nice people and Zodiac casino where you could try to bet with Zodiac dollars, that could by their dealers be used to place a bid on all sorts of parts being sold to the highest bidder, with the top price being a brand new S&S V-Twin engine.

The whole show was well visited, well organized and it was good to be a part of it.

Already looking forward to the 2009 edition of the BBE.

Kati (PinkKatillac)

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