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Dar is in the Wind on his Custom 69 Chopper with D&D Pipes

We caught up with Dar on the road running his 69 Chopper hard. Just a month or so back his custom-production motorcycle that he designed out of his shop in Oklahoma had won an award in Sturgis.

The exhaust? D&D, baby!

69 Chopper Takes 3rd in Production Class

The 69 Chopper is a custom-production motorcycle that includes high-end components from famed suppliers like Baker Drivetrain, Crime Scene Chopper, Leroy Thompson, Wire-Plus, D&D Exhaust, S&S Cycle and Tauer Machine.

Leroy Thompson built a number of special components for the chopper that will be standard equipment when it goes into production.

Once described as motorcycling's "Pulitzers, Nobels and Olympics all rolled into one", the Official World Championship of Custom Bike Building is staged annually during the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, every August in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

It is the culmination of an annual series of worldwide events, including an annual European Championship, that sees hundreds of custom motorcycle design and engineering hopefuls embark on a quest for the opportunity to compete in USA against many of America's finest motorcycle industry brains.

2009 World Championship Results

Production Manufacturer Class

1.Independent Cycle East
2.Swift Motorcycle Co
3.Darwin Motorcycles

Freestyle Class

1.Cook Customs
2.Kris Krome Customs
3.Krugger Speedshop

Modified Harley-Davidson Class

1.Hot Dreams Marbella
2.Roland Sands Design
3.Radical Kustoms

Metric World Championship

1.Kris Krome Customs
2.Cook Customs
3.SE Service