Ultimate Builder Custom Bike Show (UBCBS)

Enter your custom bike into the Progressive® International Motorcycle Shows® Ultimate Builder Custom Bike Show and pitch it against the best builders in the country. The UBCBS is an affiliate competition to the AMD World Championship of Custom Bike Building. Professional and amateur custom builders of choppers, cruisers and sportbikes are invited to enter their bikes into the competition and judge each other’s work. There will be 11 individual rounds of the Ultimate Builder Custom Bike Show nationwide. 

United States Championship

The United States Championship of custom bike building will be held at the Daytona Progressive International Motorcycle Show held during Daytona Bike Week, March 14-16, 2012. This elite competition is for the ultimate builders of custom bikes in the United States and will crown the definitive national champions in their respective classes. The United States Championship is an affiliate competition to the AMD World Championship of Custom Bike Building.

The United States Championship will also include an individual photo shoot by a professional photographer of each bike entered into the competition. Each builder/bike owner will receive a CD of photos taken during the event of themselves and their bikes.

Judged Custom Bike Classes

Free Style: Any motorcycle frame configuration or drivetrain combination. Your imagination is the only restriction. Must run and stop.

Hot Bike Modified Harley: Must have Harley manufactured frame and engine cases. Frame must maintain stock configuration so modifications are limited to smoothing ie; molding welds and joints, welding in filler panels or cutting excess tabs. Swingarm kits and fat tire conversions are acceptable .

Super Streetbike Performance Custom: Race inspired styling with performance enhancing engine modifications. Any motorcycle frame configuration and drivetrain combination. Judging will be focused around drag racing ie; strtched out ‘Busa, Bonneville racers and highly modified sportbikes. 

Retro Mod: Any modified bike, with any drive train on any chassis configuration that is 25 years or older. Great class for older Harley's where the frame was cut to rake or stretch as well as a class for Café Racers from the Ton-Up era.

The Mob Rules
The masses can’t be kept silent and a fourth award will be given at each round of the UBCBS and the United States Championship, chosen by the mob. This is essentially a “people’s choice” award, and the people can be fickle. The winner of the Mob Rules trophy could be a bike built in a state-of-the-art machine shop, or a two car garage at the end of a cul-de-sac. It’s all up to them.

Awards and Prizes
The winners of the three judged classes at each Progressive International Motorcycle Show will receive a cash prize, a prize from Harley-Davidson, Star or Yamaha, a first place trophy and entry into the 2011 AMD World Championship of Custom Bike Building at Sturgis.

Freestyle Class Presented by: 

1^st Place Cash Prize: $3,000 per UBCBS / $6,000 at USC

Modified Harley Class Presented by:

1^st Place Cash Prize: $2,000 per UBCBS / $4,000 at USC

 Performance Custom Class Presented by:
1^st Place Cash Prize: $1,000 per UBCBS / $2,000 at USC
 

Retro Mod Class 1^st Place Cash Prize: $1,000 per UBCBS / $2,000 at USC

Award plaques will be given out to motorcycles finishing in second and third place in the three judged categories at each UBCBS and the USC events.  

The Mob Rules winner will receive a trophy. There is no cash prize for the Mob Rules award.

All UBCBS class trophies will be awarded during the awards ceremony held Sundays beginning at 3:00pm local time. The USC class trophies will be awarded during the awards ceremony held Friday during the Daytona Progressive International Motorcycle Show starting at 3:00pm local time.

All cash prizes will be paid by Advanstar Communications via check 30 days after Advanstar’s receipt of winner affidavit forms (forms will be supplied by Advanstar to class winners at each UBCSB and United States Championship). 

Competition Entry Deadline
You may enter up until 2:00pm on the opening day of the show, except New York when the deadline is 10:00am opening day of the show. 

When to Arrive at Shows

UBCBS

•         Move-In Time Most Shows: Fridays, 8:00am – 2:00pm

•         Show Opening Time Most Shows: 4:00pm

•         Move-in Time New York Show: Thursday, 1/19, 1:00pm – 6:00pm
                                                         Friday, 1/20, 8:00am – 10:00am

•         Opening Time New York Show: 12:00pm Noon     

Bikes will remain on display through the entirety of the show weekend. They may be moved out after show close on Sunday at 5:00p.m. (4:00p.m. in Minneapolis).

United States Championship – Ocean Center Daytona Beach

•         Move-In Time: Tuesday, 3/13, 1:00pm to 5:00pm
                              Wednesday, 3/14, 8:00am to 10:00am

Bikes will remain on display through the entirety of the show. They may be moved out after show close on Friday, 3/16 at 5:00pm or Saturday. 3/17 at 5:00p.m.

Travel
Each builder is responsible for their own travel arrangements.

Freight
Each builder will need to make their own arrangements to have their bikes shipped to show site.

Bike Displays
Each bike will be given its own 5’x10’ display area consisting of a display matt, barrier ring and an 11”x17” display sign provided by competition management accompanying the motorcycle. The information you provide on the entry form will be used on the display sign.

NO OTHER ITEMS MAY ACCOMPANY THE MOTORCYCLE IN THE DISPLAY. This includes, but is not limited to: turn tables, lights, mirrors, trophies, pictures, models or the motorcycle’s owner! The owners/builders may stay within the vicinity of their motorcycle, talk with show attendees, other competitors, etc., but they must stay outside of their motorcycle’s display during show hours.

Bike Photos
All builders must submit two digital photos of the motorcycles.

        1.    Profile picture of the motorcycle.

        2.    Builder’s choice – front view, rear view, close-up of special part or paint

Photos will need to be emailed to Bob Kay at ultimatebuilder@advanstar.com.

Bike photos will be posted on Motorcycleshows.com, promoting your participation in the UBCBS and giving the attending mob a preview of what they’ll see.

Competition Entry – Fees and Forms

UBCBS
Entry fee for Freestyle Class: $150 per motorcycle.

Entry fee for Modified Harley Class: $125 per motorcycle.

Entry fee for Performance Custom and Retro Mod Classes: $100 per motorcycle.

United States Championship
Entry fee for Freestyle Class: $200 per motorcycle.

Entry fee for Modified Harley Class: $175 per motorcycle.

Entry fee for Performance Custom and Retro Mod Classes: $125 per motorcycle.

Entry fee includes:

•         All costs associated with hall motorcycle rolling rates and union labor

•         2 exhibitor passes per builder for the show – grants access pre-show, post show and during show hours