Custom Bike Pinup Calendar News September - October 2008

2008 Performance Machine Best of Show winner Jim Giuffra (center in yellow shirt) with his Mikuni HSR equipped Yamaha Star V-twin custom from AFT Customs, Martell, CA, collects his trophy, a check for $3,000 cash and some $10,000 more in awards including a Mikuni HSR Carburetor Kit. Together with Jim (on the left) are Ted Sands from Performance Machine, Show hostess Kari Kimmel, the AFT Model Agency girls in pink shirts, and the FastDates.com Calendar Kittens in white/red.

AFT Metric Custom Takes Best of Show!
Performance Machine presents the 17 Annual
2008 LA Calendar Motorcycle Show Weekend with the
Calendar Bike Building Championship &
2-Day Calendar Girl Music Festival

July 12-13th 2008, Queen Mary Event Park, Long Beach, CA - The 17th annual Los Angeles Calendar Motorcycle Show Weekend presented by Performance Machine, America's premier custom, cruiser, performance and sportbike weekend returned to the Queen Mary Event Park in Long Beach on July 12-13th, 2008. Over 10,000 street motorcycle and music fans were in attendance for the world's most exciting 2-day motorcycle event weekend in the beautiful Queen Mary Event Park on the grass alongside the Pacific Ocean with it’s cool ocean breezes to fend off the inland California summer’s scorching heat. This remains the world's premier motorcycle show weekend featuring all major motorcycle and parts manufacturers, selected product and apparel venders.

More than just a pretty face, C.W. Morris' 1st Place Mikuni Performance V-Twin Calendar Bike Building Champinship class winner also tackled the S&S Cycle World Record Dyno at this year's Calendar Bike Show. Photo by Jack Lawford, Editor / BikerHotLine.com

The weekend features many of the world's top Pro and Amateur street bike builders in attendance to compete in the Performance Machine Calendar Show Bike Building Championship with a bulging purse of $86,000 in cash and awards. There are 10 individual classes for American V-Twin and Metric Street Custom, Performance, Classic, Bobber, Chopper and Sportbike motorcycles The coveted Performance Machine Best of Show Trophy is awarded for the top overall bike at the Show and includes a $3,000 cash prize, an additional $7,000 in product awards bringing the total awards to $10,000 overall, plus the winning bike and builder receives an editorial bike feature in Iron Works magazine and the Iron & Lace Calendar photographed by Show producer Jim Gianatsis.

Taking home the coveted Best of Show award for the first time ever at a major Show was an incredible metric custom from builder Jim Giuffra / AFTcustoms.com. Named “Er Head” for it’s air-cooled Yamaha XVS engine fed by a Mikuni HSR carb, the bike features a specially modified Yamaha/Redneck Engineering/ AFT Customs oil-in frame with RMD billet girder front forks, and a single shock rear suspension. Assisting Jim with the construction of the top bike was his assistant Ron Abel, and AFT Model Agency girls Kylie and Elaina.

Kenji Nagai / Ken’s Factory, flew in from Japan with his beautful bike “Velvet Hand” featuring a 125 ci Patrick Racing Engine w/ Magnacharger. www.Kens-Fasctory.com. In USA contact Jonathan Kluvery 310-749-2026.

Best of Show came from the premier Iron Works magazine sponsored Radical Pro Builder class, which again this year was extremely competitive, with 1st Place trophy gong to Japanese builder Kenji Nagal from Ken’s Factory (Kens-Factory.com) who flew in just for the Calendar Bike Building Championship with his blown V-Twin powered polished aluminum custom from Nagoya City, Japan. Taking 1st and 2nd runner-up spots among many many incredible all-new machines premiering at the Show were Todd Silicato, and last year’s Best of Show winner Greg Westbury of Westbury Hardcore.

Complete coverage of the 2008 LA Calendar Motorcycle Show
and S&S Cycle World Record Dyno Horsepower Shootout HERE

2008 LA Calendar Show Winner Bike Pictorials in Iron & Lace Garage
Check out the top winning bikes from the 2008 LA Calendar Motorcycle Show's $86,000 Calendar Bike Building Championship now in the Iron & Lace Garage. Jim Gianatsis has photographed the bikes in detailed pictorials in large screensaver format, together with beautiful models Rachelle Bernsteign Sabella Shake. It;s also your exclusive previrew to the bikes and models which will appear in the next 2010 Iron & Lace Calendar. Sweet!   Iron & Lace Garage

2009 Iron & Lace Calendar Cover Bike Best of Show winner For Sale at $48,000 Here's you chance to own a piece of history, one of the premier custom bikes in the world! 2007 LA Calendar Motorcycle Show's Calendar Bike Building Championship Best of Show Winner Greg Westbury of Westbury Hardcore is selling his winning bike, which is also featured on the cover and inside the 2009 Iron & Lace Calendar. Contact Greg and tell him we sent you, at phone 925 682-9482 / WestburyHotRods.com

This Month in the Iron & Lace Calendar ....
FastDates.com Calendar Kitten Masha Lund gets ready to ready to rumble with this sexy street rod from Joe Takai, Mercury Customs. You'll find large size screensavers of all our past and present Calendar pages and lots of very revealing pictures of our Calendar Kittens in Members Corner. And you can order the 2008 and 2009 Iron & Lace Calendars HERE.

Next LA Calendar Motorcycle Show Weekend set for July 18-19th 2009
Sept 1st - The 2009 LA Calendar Motorcycle Show Weekend will move back to the 3rd weekend of July for 2009. The Show is traditionally held in the middle of July on weekends not to conflict with other major events including the MotoGP at Laguna Seca and Sturgis Bike Week. The Calendar Bike Show has been on the 2nd July weekend these past 4 years, but this year 2008, Holister which had typically been held on the 4th of July weekend, moved onto our 2nd weekend, significantly limiting spectator and vender attendance at both events. For 2009 the U.S. MotoGP at Laguna Seca has moved from its 3rd weekend of July to the July 3-5th weekend, allowing the LA Calendar Motorcycle Show moving back to the 3rd weekend of July date where the Show had had been from 1995 - 2004. Holister will stay on the 2nd July weekend, now allowing spectators and venders can attend all 3 major west coast events, and manufacturers from back east can schedule a July 2009 west coast swing to hit consecutively all 3 major street motorcycle event weekends.   Details HERE

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2008 Calendar Bike Building Championship Winners

Performance Machine
Best of Show
Jim Giuffra / AFT Customs

Iron Works
!st Place Pro Builder
Kenji Nagai / Kens Factory, Japan

Best Performance Machine Bike
Todd Silicato / Todd's Cycle



1st Place Street Custom
Devin Montgomery

1st Place
Mikuni Street Performance
C.W. Morris

1st Place
Mikuni Street Chopper
Clyde Ransome
with beautiful Saturday Calendar Model Search winner
Andrea Hilario

1st Place Metric Custom
Gilbert & Alfredo Gonzales

1st Place Iron Works
Classic Late Custom
Jay Jay Ransom

2st Place Iron Works
Classic Late Custom
Jay Jay Ransom & Spanky

1st Place Iron Works
Bar Hopper
Sportster / Cassidy Lackos

Official Bike Show T-Shirts!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
AFT Customs Announces the Build by the Powersports Modeling Agency Girls
of its Latest Custom Metric
V-Twin Motorcycle
“LowLa”
to Unveil at the
2009 LA Calendar Show Weekend July 18-19th 2009

AFT Customs Announces a New Build by the Powersports Modeling Agency Girls
of its Latest Custom Metric V-Twin Motorcycle code named “LowLa”
to Premier at the 2009 LA Calendar Show Weekend July 18-19th in Long Beach

Martell, CA. Sept 1st, 2008 – Powersports Modeling Agency, a division of AFT Customs, has announced it has begun building an all-new custom metric V-Twin for the 2009 bike show circuit season. This new motorcycle, code named “LowLa”, will be built by select AFT Customs Girls from the Powersports Model Agency, with the models working under the guidance of AFT Customs owner and designer Jim Giuffra. This new metric custom bike will be constructed fully by the AFT Girls to showcase their building skills, an prove that custom bike building is not just for men, while also helping to increase the models' knowledge of motorcycles, building techniques and the industry as a whole. Jim Giuffra / AFT Customs, who this year received the Best of Show at the 2008 LA Calendar Motorcycle Show, and Metric Class winner at the 2005 and 2008 AMD World Championship of Custom Bike Building, will be overseeing the design and construction of the project motorcycle which will be built in full by the AFT Girls.

"The bike will be built by all the girls, but it will be my daily ride when it is done and has completed next summer's show tour at major motorccyle events", explained beautiful and skilled Sukhee, one of the Powersports Modeling Agency's newest models. “Building this bike from the ground up will dramatically increase our knowledge of motorcycles and their components, which will help to make us more valuable to clients who hire Powersports Modeling Agency models to represent their products at motorsport shows and events.

The "LoLa" bike project has already begun initial sponsor confirmation, design and component delivery, and will make it's world premier at the 2009 LA Calendar Motorcycle Show Weekend July 18-19th, where its construction by models will compliment the "pinup model theme" of the LA Calendar Motorcycle Show Weekend. From there the bike will continue on to Sturgis Bike Week where AFT Customs will defend its Metric title at he AMD World Championship.

The LA Calendar Show Weekend is held at the Queen Mary Event Park in Long Beach, California and is renown as America's premier custom, cruiser, performance and sportbike weekend. The show boasts over 250 major motorcycle and parts manufacturers and features many of the World's top Pro and Amateur street bike builders competing in the Calendar Bike Building Championship for a purse of $86,000 in cash and prize awards. The Show features many exclusive activities including the S&S Cycle World Record Dyno Horsepower Shoot, Calendar Bike Building Seminars, the 2-day Calendar Girl Music Festival and the annual World Premier of the new FastDates.com Motorcycle PinUp Calendars with the beautiful Calendar Kittens.

At this year's 2008 Calendar Bike Show, Jim Guiffra / AFT Customs walked away with the Performance Machine Best of Show award with “Er-Hed”, a special construction monoshock custom powered by a Yamaha Royal Star V-Twin engine. Then the day after the Calendar Motorcycle Show Weekend, Giuffra and the Show's other class winners were invited to attended a photo shoot with Jim Gianatsis at the Gianatsis Design Studios to have their bikes photographed for the next 2010 FastDates.com Calendars which will premier at the 2009 Calendar Motorcycle Show Weekend.

“This year AFT Customs took home the Best of Show award and I am looking forward to having Jim Giuffra, an incredibly talent builder, and his team of beautiful models / mechanics back in 2009,” said Jim Gianatsis, LA Calendar Show producer. “Having the next radical new AFT Customs bike scheduled to be unveiled at our next Show only reinforces how important our event is in the streetbike world, and highlights the important media coverage we garner for our bike builders, exhibitors and sponsors. And having many of the finest custom bikes in the world together with very beautiful models is what the LA Calendar Motorcycle Show and the FastDates.com Calendars are all about!

For additional information on the LA Calendar Motorcycle Show Weekend and to order the FastDates.com Calendars go to www.FastDates.com.
For additional informaton on AFT Customs and the Powersports Modeling Agency go to www.AFTcustoms.com or phone direct Jim Giuffra, Owner, AFT Customs (209) 223-3848

About AFT (Amador Fine Tune)
Amador Fine Tune is a full service bike shop that has been in business for nearly 20 years. They offer one-off products and are a dealer for over 50 different suppliers. AFT Customs is about professional craftsmen and are certified to work on all metrics motorcycles including: Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki and Yamaha. Though customizing metrics is relatively new, AFT Customs have been winning awards for its bikes for years and boasts over 30 world class awards including the 2005 and 2008 AMD World Championship for their metric builds and has over 30 feature articles in top industry magazines worldwide. They provide minor modifications based on customer specifications to full ground-up projects. All builds focus on style, performance, size and functionality. For all your metric needs—big and small---contact the experts at (209) 223-3848 or visit them on the web--www.aftcustoms.com.

About AFT Girls
AFT Girls, a division of Amador Fine Tune, is a modeling agency offering marketing and sales savvy girls to organizations that want to make an impact at events. Whether it is tradeshows, grand openings, parties or photography shoots, AFT Girls can help to that help to make any event more of a success and position their client as a professional, expert in the industry. To learn more about how the AFT Girls can help you and your business, check them out on the web at www.aftcustoms.com or call for rates and booking at (209) 223-3848