Ray Wheeler’s Ultimate Street Bike

2010 San Mateo – Ultimate Builder Custom Bike Show – Ray Wheeler shows his Bonneville racer and Ultimate Street Bike at the Ultiamte Builder Custom Bike Show. It goes fast… Real fast.

The Progressive® International Motorcycle Shows® Ultimate Builder Custom Bike Show (UBCBS) is an affiliate competition to the AMD World Championship of Custom Bike Building. Professional and amateur custom builders of choppers, cruisers and sportbikes enter their bikes into the competition and judge each other’s work.

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Krystos Efantis’ Red Betty @ 2011 Ultimate Builder

It sits low and looks super clean. Red Betty’s carbon fiber fairing was created in-house with paint supplied by Creative Colours. Suspension is an AIR FX Air Ride and the swing arm is a Trac Dynamic 240mm Kit

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Shawn Page’s Custom Busa @ 2011 Ultimate Builder in Washington DC

Shwan Page rolled Brooklyn’s Finest into the 2011 Ultimate Builder Custom Bike Show located in Washington, DC. JR Customs painted the 2007 Suzuki Hayabusa and the shiny metal work was completed by 2 Wheel Customs. This was one of the crowd favorites… Jay Z is popular.

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Washington DC: Lloyd Hardy’s Performance Custom Class Entry

Lloyd Hardy @ 2011 Ultimate Builder in Washington DC – His 2004 Suzuki Hayabusa 1441cc engine ride is called Size Matters and features an extended swing arm and a 360mm rear wheel and wide tire kit. Paint was supplied by Hathaway and chrome by K-OS.

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2011 Minneapolis – Josh Lee from JDA Custom

Performance Class at the Ultimate Builder Custom Bike Show – The Minneapolis win went to Holden On Racing with a 2009 Hayabusa; second and third were taken by JDA Customs with a 2007 Suzuki GSX-R and Yamaha RG.

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2011 Greenville – Performance Custom Class – Lyle Collotzi

Lyle Collotzi talks about his Ducati and modifications to the bike.

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Ultimate Builder Winners in Washington DC

This past weekend saw the latest in the World Championship of Custom Bike Building program ‘Ultimate Builder’ affiliate events staged at the Progressive International Motorcycle Show at Washington DC.  The Freestyle win was taken by Washington local Alex Lucas with ‘Snake’, an Ultima engined pro street style daily rider by WEM. Second went to Frank Rutigliano of Two Wheel Mafia with a custom XS 650 bobber, with Roy Chamberlin of C&C Cycle third. Fourth was taken by Jason Nieman of SS Trike, with fifth going to Norman Washington with a customized American Ironhorse chopper. The win in the Harley-Davidson sponsored Modified Harley class was taken by Jason Bochniak’s ‘Phoenix’, a 2006 Softail Deluxe, fitted with a Pro Charger supercharger, D&D ‘Boarzilla’ exhaust and Ride Wright ‘Fat Daddy’ 50-spoke wheels. Second went to Margaret Nicastri of C&C Cycle, with Bobby Reed of Eastside Chop Shop third with a 2007 Street Glide. Fourth went to Jeff Geisbert of Old Glory Speed Shop with a 2011 Street Glide. In the Performance Custom class, the win was taken by William Ray with a 2006 Hayabusa; second went to Krystos Efanti of MSP Motorsports with a 2008 Yamaha R1; third was Mike Joines with a 2006 Hayabusa; fourth was Shwan Page with a 2007 Hayabusa, and fifth was Lloyd Hardy with a 2004 Hayabusa. The ‘Ultimate Builder’ series now moves on to New York this coming weekend (January 21-23), followed by Cleveland (Jan 28-30), Minneapolis (February 4-6), Chicago (February 11-13) and then Greenville Sc. (February 25-27) before the finals at Daytona Bike Week, March 9-12. For full details of classes, prizes and entry contact Bob Kay or Jeff Najar at Biker Pros, Tel: 919 383 0500   www.motorcycleshows.com/custom

The winning Freestyle bike, ‘Snake’, was built by WEM and featured a one-off frame, single-sided swingarm, specially designed Baker Drivetrain transmission and trans brake. Competing builders at the Ultimate Builder Custom Bike Show in Washington DC.

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Ultimate Builder: DC Upate

The Washington DC edition of the Ultimate Builder Custom Bike Show started out with the temperatures hovering around 20 degrees but the show on the inside the Washington Convention Center was hot. The Washington Convention Center, located just a few minutes from the Washington Monument, is a high-tech affair that is roomy and an excellent facility to showcase custom bikes. 

As you walk into the center you’re greeted with the FreeStyle Class bikes laid out on the red carpet that runs the length of the show. Throughout the entire weekend the bikes were surrounded with enthusiasts taking pictures and enjoying styles that were a significant departure from stock.

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Motorcycle show revs up with custom bikes and memorials

By Ashley Halsey III

Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, January 15, 2011; 3:43 AM

In the final hours before the doors opened to the public, the vast hall had the ethereal quiet of an art museum, a near silence even as it filled with magnificent machines.

If the starter buttons on all 550 of those machines were touched at once, the roar might blow the roof off the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.

But the custom motorcycles that are the centerpiece of this weekend’s Progressive International Motorcycle Show were rolled quietly into place until the red carpet held about 20 of them.

Befitting the museum-like hush, each was a work of art that demanded the admiration even of those who hold no affection for their roar and the lure of open highway that stirs the wanderlust in bikers.

The cost of the custom paint jobs alone on these machines exceeded the price tag of most of the stock bikes in the surrounding displays.

Lloyd Hardy, who won the custom competition at last year’s show, invested about $12,000 in the intricate artwork that adorned his metallic green bike.

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Custom Bike Designer Ron Finch @ Ultimate Builder in Detroit MI

Bob Kay gets on the mic before the awards at the Ultimate Builder to get the 411 from Ron Finch on the state of custom bike building… Good stuff.

The radical differences from one creation to the next has enabled Finch to avoid the kind of “trademark style” that has emerged with many famous builders over a long career. Perhaps only one feature seems to be repeated again and again in his work, and this is the absence of a conventional fuel tank.

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