8th Place European Championship 2006

8th Place European Championship 2006
At Last A Stretched Metalflake Chopper
By Robin Bradley, photography by Horst Rösler

The finals for the Official World Championship will be held during Sturgis Bike Week in the United States later this year (August 6th-8th). The European and World Championship program, includes endorsements of approved national affiliate events around Europe and elsewhere. It all comes together this year in Sturgis. We’ll bring you the final report and winners in September.

This is our last feature of the winners, out of 127 entries. As you can see, this is the first chopper in the mix, and wouldn’t you know it—Robin Bradley didn’t cover this bike in his report, although it extended to 10th place. I’m sure he didn’t intend to dismiss the 8th Place winning bike by Thomas Habermann of Habermann-Performance GmbH in Erbach-Ringingen, Germany. From my standpoint the chopper gods would spit on my grave if a glistening chopper wasn’t represented and this is one helluva example.

May the evil spirit of the night who draws us into dank garages with perfectly fine motorcycles, praise this offering. He is the one to drives us to dismantle highly engineered machinery, strip it to its barely functioning core, modify it beyond all reasonable means, remove anything that doesn’t speak of the night, shapely women and treachery, adorn it with layers of paint worthy of fine art and ride the sonuvabitch to hell.--Bandit