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    STRAIGHT LINE fever

    Jan 17, 2018 4 minutes
    WORDS GEOFF SEDDON PHOTOS MAURICE VOLMEYER
    “VISUAL IMPACT AND CREATIVITY COUNT AS MUCH AS PERFORMANCE, IRRESPECTIVE OF THE CLASS”

    THE Glemseck 101 is Europe’s biggest custom bike festival. Held over three days each September on a small section of what used to be the Solitude racetrack — home to the German 500 GP until 1964 — near Leonberg in southern Germany, Glemseck attracts tens of thousands of visitors to a long weekend of bikes, live music and heads-up 1/8th-mile drag racing.

    The mile-long pit paddock hosts the International Village of custom bike shops and clubs from all over Europe. The range of customs on show is staggering, covering all genres. It’s also

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