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MET-STER WORLD tour
Before going across
the Atlantic, I decided to roam through Europe and do the bigger European
Bike Shows.
Send us an e-mail if you wonna come along or get together at one of of these
shows.
25/06/04-27/06/04: Group36
Bike Meeting & Show.
(B) www.chosenfewmc.be
Result: Best Paint & Best
HD
24/07/04: Belgian Trike Trophy
Halen. (B) www.trike.be
Result: 2nd Best HD (1st was a
HD trike)
30/07/04 - 01/08/04: Blue
Beach Bike Show 2004. (Fr) www.blue-beach-bikers.com
Result: 3rd place in the 'Custom
Pro' class (1st + 2nd were Big Twins) + special price: Encouragement
of the Jury.
07/08/04 - 08/08/04:
Bike Show Geiselwind (D)
www.bike-and-music-weekend.de
Result: Winner Best Sportster.
13/08/04 - 15/08/04:
Bulldog Bash BikeShow
(UK) www.bulldog-bash.co.uk
Result: Sad but True, no win, but
the bike was recognised with a Special Price 'Highly Commended'.
03/09/04 -
05/09/04: Euro Bikeweek
Faakersee (AT) www.europeanbikeweek.com
Result:
A great event every Harley Lover should do except
for the Bike Shows, they are Bullshit !!
11/09/04 - 12/09/04:
Americ'aisne Show 6
(Fr)
www.harley02.fr.fm
Result:
BEST OF SHOW !!!
02/10/04 -
03/10/04:
Salon du Custom Show in Harnes (+/-
20km from Lille) (Fr)
Result:
BEST OF SHOW !!!
12/11/04 - 14/11/04: Motorsale
rosmalen 2004 (NL) www.motorsale.nl
BULLSHIT JUDGING SYSTEM, ONLY 5 PRIZES FOR OVER 80 BIKES !! NO CATEGORIES.
27/11/04 - 28/11/04: Belgian
Bike Weekend (B)
www.belgianbikeweekend.com
Result:
3rd place HD Custom
05/03/05: Full
Throttle Bike Show
(USA)
www.delandbikerally.com
BULLSHIT JUDGING, there
were only 2 Sportsters, Met-Ster and a stock factory accessory catalog bike,
it won.
No respect for our work at all. SAD. The stock bike got 90something in
points, the Met-Ster only 46. WHY ????
09/03/05: H-D
Ride-in Bike Show (USA)
www.harley-davidson.com
Result:
Amazing, Best of Show Radical Custom Sportster.
10/03/05: Ride-in Bike Show
Orlando HD (USA)
www.orlandoharley.com
Result:
YUPPIE SCUM and trailer queens, I called to
see if I could get there a bit later, we were enjoying the ride from Daytona
to
Orlando,
but it was freezing COLD, we made 2 extra stops and got there at 11.45 AM.
Registration ended at 11am and
even having called to warn 'em, they still wouldn't let me in the Show.
FUCK YOU STEVE, you're an ASSHOLE !!!!!!!!
12/03/05: Rat's
Hole Bike Show
(USA)
www.ratshole.com
Result:
America is no different from Europe, Most shows
are politics. At pre-registration I specifically asked for Sportster Custom
class,
at the gate I got put in Radical, with a stock frame in the Met-Ster. All
the Radical Class bikes had aftermarket frames and the
stock class had bikes with more mod's than described on the website's rules.
So the Met-Ster was too stock for Radical and too
radical for the stock class. FUCK, but that's life right ? I never
expected to see so many nice radical sportsters in this show.
My
personal opinion: organisation was not 100% yet after Big Daddy died, the
show has lost it's prestige that I saw years before.
02/04/05 - 03/04/05:
Festival de la moto (B)
www.custom-bikers.org
Result:
8th Place, no subcategories.
09/04/05 - 10/04/05:
Stars on Wheels (B)
www.starsonwheels.com
Result:
5th place Custom category.
14/05/05 :
Metallica Fanclub Party (B)
www.belgiumdevildancers.be
USA toer !!
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Deland Bikerrally Show, by Full Throttle
magazine.
First time they did it and they waisted my time. That hurts when
you have so many things to see and do and not enough time to
do it all.
The other bike was the winner, a brand new
factory
accessory catalog bike, even the nipples on the tyres were still
there.
Okay it looked good, but if i knew that bolt on was enough to
win a show in America, I could've just entered a rental bike.
Oh well, you guys be the judge and let me
know what you think please. Put it up in the Guestbook.
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Harley-Davidson Ride-in Show Daytona 2005.
Result: Best of Show Radical Custom Sportster.
Foto with Willy G Davidson and his son.
Met-Ster crew party in the Hotel room.
Left to right: Luc, Wim, Stijn, Carl, Cisse & Bart.
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Friday we were at the Daytona speedway, we
thought we missed
the Rocket launch that was sceduled for thursday, but we got
lucky and were able to see it from the Speedway.
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Met-Ster at the Rat's Hole Show.
The competition in the Radical Sportster
Class was to high for
the Met-Ster. It should have been in Sportster Custom Class,
or the Stock class. Custom Sportster was cancelled in
contradiction to the Rat's hole website, where this class was described.
Stock class is where they should have put us.
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The
MET-STER went to America for the Bike Shows at Daytona BikeWeek
2005.
www.ratshole.com
www.officialbikeweek.com
Thanks to the Sponsorship of
friends, customers & family.
I have no words to thank the people who have already shown their faith in HBS
and the Met-Ster.
These are the Sponsors:
Karl Schellemans, William Beckers, Elke
Overlaet, Benny Bries, Lieven De Norre, ARNOLD STEFFENS, Marc Meneve,
SIGNWORKS, Witchcraft Engineering, Elke Van Echelpoel
(Miss Metallica), FERDINEND BLEREAU,
Patrick Willekens, Ronnie Rodeyns, GEERT BOLLION, M@kke, VD painting, Jim Nijs,
Dirk Van Obbergen, BENI CLAESKENS,
SKIN N BONES Tattoo, Paul d'Hoine, François Scheepmans, Yves Storms, BART STORMS,
Vrancken Bvba (Philippe Dewael),
VMC Black Knights, DIRK LAES, AVON TYRES, Romain Van Gelder, Swa Support81,
CHRIS JANSSENS,
Luc Van Dijck, Johan Seymus, SATANICO PANDEMONIUM, Ronny Guiot, Anneke, Babe
Magnet,
Steven Vanbergen, YORSIE, Jos Willems, Richard van Steenbeeck, Erik Janssens,
WWW.FOTOLIFESTYLE.NL,
Van Hal, Wendy Laeremans, De Bremaecker, MotoCrash, Mertens-Janssens,
Ivo Leest, Peter Bliek, Dieter Jacobs, Telly Huisseune, ...
DHL- Danzas took care of the shipment to the USA ! It all went
smooth so far.
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