Bigtwin Bikeshow & Expo 2015
The Bigtwin Bikeshow & Expo is with traders, visitors
and bikeshow participants coming from countries as Germany, Poland, England,
France and Belgium for sure an International show. It’s a good reflection on
what’s going on in the European custom bike scene. What the Bigtwin Show is
most known for? The friendly, relaxt feeling that visitors experience,
especially the foreigners, whom all have a great weekend. Such as this 24th
Edition that filled the 3 halls and had the 80+ entries in the Bike Show as
sparkling point of attention.
Text by Onno “Berserk” Wieringa – Photography by Onno and the G-Rat
Three halls full of everything custom, to start off in the
Spyker hall, where the action was. Top Fuel bike of European Champion dragracing team Haas
Brothers caught a lot of attention , as did the other dragbikes in the dragrace
show. The Globe of Death with amazing stunts and facinating trial riding demo’s
kept the action going all weekend.
The Expo hall had every square inch occupied with custom
bikes, parts and accessories. Special bikes, customized or built from the
ground up, it was all there. The Bike show, devided in several area’s drew a
lot of attention. Aftermarket companies like Motorcycle Storehouse, Parts
Europe / Drag Specialties, Zodiac and Custom Chrome Europe showed their newest
items, Harley-Davidson dealers O.I.T. and Central were present, as were Yamaha
with the Yard Built display and BMW with their High Octane Soul Fuel Challenge
winner, built by Jeffry Sol. Small companies like Short Cut Choppers and Wing
Palace are known for their nicely decorated stands and old school built bikes.
First Floor is traditionaly the place to visit for bargains, the Biker Market saw
many new traders and good, reasonable priced parts and clothing.
In the centre of the Eventron hall most of the the custom
bike show was lined up. Long rowes of sparkling shiny bikes, of every style and
make. Many artists had a booth next to the show, painters, airbrush demo’s,
Tijger Leathers with seat upholstery, all were busy working and explaining how
they do it to the visitors. For the
grown-ups there was permanent art, as in tattoo’s, for the kids there was
children’s make-up and a special Kids Studio, where the little bikers could
have their photograph taken on a little chopper. Next to the Kids Studio was another
studio where you could pose with a cool, old school chopper from the seventies.
On stage the whole weekend live music, striptease and
acrobatic acts performed, the gogo dancers had the temperatures rising… Good
fun for everybody, except for the student-mechanics whom highly concentrated
worked on their projects, a Kawasaki Z650 and a Harley-Davidson Sportster they
were building into a Cafe Racer and a Scrambler.
After the prize giving ceremony everybody the Bigtwin
Bikeshow and Expo came to an end. It was a great weekend, all custom bike
lovers went home satisfied and we are all looking forward to the 25th
Anniversary of the Bigtwin Bikeshow & Expo next year!
More photo's of the Bigtwin Bikeshow & Expo 2015, Rosmalen The Netherlands after the jump-break!
Text by Onno “Berserk” Wieringa – Photography by Onno and
the G-Rat
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