The results are in for the 2011 AMD World Championship of Custom Bike Building held at Sturgis, SD, and looking over the winners, it’s plain as day the world has changed dramatically from only a few years ago. The stretched out, fat tire bikes have given way to all sorts of bikes, visually radical to be sure, but often aimed at performance instead of static display and some even focused on keeping costs to a minimum.

Consider the 1st place winner TAVAX2011V from Tavax Engineering of Japan. Sure, it’s a radical styling statement, but there are no super tall or super fat tires, just 17 inch Marchesini wheels and Dunlop tires on both ends. Lots of sculptured aluminum but a single shock rear suspension and out front the suspension begins at the axle as a leading link fork, which then changes via a pair of links into a springer fork. It’s really focused on the metal work with a bit of interesting engineering.

The 2nd place bike, Son of a Gun from Lamb Engineering of the U.K. started with an eBay 1951 BSA single and Talon motocross wheels. Builder Larry Houghton found most everything either in a friends scrap bin or on eBay and fabricated and machined the components. Total cost, including the gold paint, was under $9000.

Jumping to 4th place is Spacester, an interesting much modified 1987 Sportster XL1200. It has Suzuki wheels plus builder fabricated discs with scooter calipers and some rather smooth bodywork. Maybe a Sportster will look like this in the year 2030.

Here’s the rundown of all of the winners:

World Championship Freestyle Class Results Business Name Bike Name City Country Builder Name 1st Tavax Engineering Tavax 2011V Yao City, Osaka Japan Ken Tabata 2nd Lamb Engineering Son of a Gun Salisbury, Wiltshire United Kingdom Larry Houghton 3rd Kraus Motor Co Bolide Cazadero, CA USA Satya Kraus 4th V-Twin Mechanic SpaceSter La Fontaine, Pavie France Bernard “Buck” Massart 5th RK Concepts RK S Round Rock, TX USA Rafik Kaissi 6th Garage65 Stargate Viareggio Italy Marco Cinquini 7th SE Service Slugger Skogas Sweden Stellan Egeland 8th Fitil Metal Works / Moscow H-D Skywalker’s Caddy Moscow Russian Federation Alexander Fetisov 9th John Reed Gold Yamaha Morgan Hill, CA USA John Reed 10th Roquechop Design Minautore Brownsburg-Chatham, Quebec Canada Philip Roquebrune Modified Harley-Davidson Championship sponsored by Harley-Davidson – Results Business Name Bike Name City Country Builder Name 1 AbnormalCycles Union Bernareggio Italy Samuele Reali 2 Iacona Custom Cycles Challenger Brooklyn, NY USA Steven Iacona 3 Shaw Harley-Davidson Nascafe Racer Holmes Hill nr Lewes, East Sussex United Kingdom Shaw Speed & Custom Production Manufacturer Championship Results Business Name Bike Name City Country Builder Name 1 Darwin Motorcycles RLX Oklahoma City, OK USA Dar, Tim, Bryan, Justin 2 Kiwi Indian Motorcycle Co Kiwi Chieftain 1950’s Riverside, CA USA Mike Kiwi Tomas 3 Zero Engineering Type 6 Las Vegas, NV USA Zero Engineering Performance Custom Championship Results Business Name Bike Name City Country Builder Name 1 AFT Customs Sentoh Jackson, CA USA Jim Giuffra / AFT Customs Girls 2 Fuller Hot Rods Rodan Atlanta, GA USA Bryan Fuller and crew 3 RK Concepts RK Spring Frame Round Rock, TX USA Rafik Kaissi

Link: AMD World Championship