Ehinger Kraftrad

We really appreciate the visit of Kenji Nagai from Kens-Factory at our booth at Bad Salzuflen 2010.

Actually Arlen Ness – a legend of custom builders – travelled to Mainz especially for this weekend to let the builders and visitors know about his incredible passion. All in all there have been six competitions: Arlen Ness Pick, Jammer Old School Awards, Public Award, Best Modified Harley, Best Custom Chrome Motorcycle und European Champion in freestyle competition. Exhibitors, competitors and visitors had something in common - the amazing enthusiasm for technical refinement and straight designs. We made again some pictures as the photo of the AMD European Champion of Custom Bike Building from Big Twin Motors from Italy (left) and another Italian team from Garage 65 (plaid jackets). In the end it was our pleasure to welcome Arlen Ness. He took his time to get a detailed look at the “Kraftrad 2008”.

We also visited Hot Dock. Uwe talked to Keiji Kawakita from Nerima about his winner bikes and innovative bike concepts.

Due to the short trip Uwe was able to arrange at least a visit of two custom builders. He met with Keiichi Kuwai and his Badlands crew from Kawasaki. Hopefully there is much more time to meet other big names of the scene during our next visit in Japan.

Website Badland

An American BBQ in the middle of Japan during wintertime. It sounded like an interesting invitation of Shige san and a great ending of the Mooneyes Show. All employees of Mooneyes Yokohama und special guests from abroad have been invited. It was our pleasure to took part and we were curious to see who's there. At Mooneyes Café and Mooneyes Shop about 60 guests had a great evening with a lot of   interesting talks. We met e.g. Max Schaaf, Jasin Phares, Tom Foster,  John Edwards, Rico Fodrey, Cole Foster und Maurice Klok from Kieft en Klok.

Official website

He tries to think and work outside of the box and got famous within the custom industry. It the reason why a visit at Jesse Rooke Designs was so interesting for Uwe.

More about Jesse Rooke Designs: www.rookecustoms.com

Years ago Uwe lived and worked in California. He always likes to come back and meet other custom bike builders to change ideas or discuss concepts - as he did 2007 at Matt Hotch Designs.