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Kenji Nagai 's "One Eyed King " Best of Show The 18th annual edition of Calendar Bike Building Championship of the 2009 LA Calendar Motorcycle Show Weekend again features many of the world's top Pro and Amateur street bike builders in attendance to compete in the Performance Machine Calendar Show Bike Building Championship with a bulging purse of $86,000 in cash and awards. There are 10 individual classes for American V-Twin and Metric Street Custom, Performance, Classic, Bobber, Chopper and Sportbike motorcycles The coveted Performance Machine Best of Show Trophy is awarded for the top overall bike at the Show and includes a $3,000 cash prize, an additional $7,000 in product awards bringing the total awards to $10,000 overall, plus the winning bike and builder receives an editorial bike feature in Iron Works magazine and the Iron & Lace Calendar photographed by Show producer Jim Gianatsis. In the premier Iron Works magazine sponsored Radical Pro Builder class, which is always extremely competitive, last year's 1st Place Pro Builder award and the cover of the new 2010 Iron & Lace Calendar, Kenji Nagai / Ken’s Factory, Japan, flew back for this year's 2009 Calendar Bike Building Championship with his all-new bike "One Eyed King " to do himself one better and take take Best of Show. What the Show judges liked again this year about Ken's newest bike was its clean and fairly simple design on first impression, which was carried throughout the bike. It encompassed our preference for a 'balanced bike" featuring Ken's own unique billet aluminum machined Leading Link style front fork. Where it excelled was in the details once you started looking closer and noticed the beautiful body components like the hand crafted seat assembly with linked shock absorber/spring and the finned aluminum oil tank. The 1600cc Big Twin Panhead engine was unique for a custom in tht it featured electronic fuel injection. The clincher again this year was the beautiful hand formed aluminum gas tank with a clear polished area featuring a machined Ken's Factory logo on both sides, and the fabricated alluminum "saddlebag" oil tank. Kenji Nagal has elevated by another notch, the art form of street chopper building with a realistically functional and rideable bike.
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