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Chris Flechtner 's 1st Place Pro Builder 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, a brand new builder on the custom bike scene made his world premier with his first bike, this beautiful retro classic which almost defies description. Chris Fletcher, working under Speed Shop Design out of Seattle, WA, hand built from scratch this 1920-30s style road bike based on a Harley style Shovelhead engine. One of the more unique features on his bike is the hand built leading link front fork system very simialr in style to those found on 1960s Japanese motorcycles.
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