Veon Project

Freddie 'Krugger' Bertrand is now wearing the World Champions' ring after being named the 2010 AMD World Championship of Custom Bike Building.

The bike with which he claimed the title was built for Veon Motorcycle's owner Peer Toftner and features a unique electronically adjustable frame system developed by Peer  in conjunction with Dutch designer Mark van der Kwaak. At the flick of a switch the V-Rod engined bike can be transformed from a low-riding cruiser with long rake to sport bike mode with a shorter wheelbase and steeper rake. The radical machine even has two sets of foot controls to match each style of riding.

Krugger's win in the Championship follows on from third places in both 2004 and 2005, a 13th place in 2008 and another third last year.

Veon Motorcycles

Founder/Owner (100%): Peer Toftner (age 44)

Veon Motorcycles is run out of Sarpsborg City in Norway.

Peer Toftner says: "I hold a Masters Degree in Robotics Systems Engineering (1990), and have around 20 years of professional experience within the fields of industrial automation and automotive engineering/R&D. I am the inventor of the Veon Adjustable Motorcycle Concept. I had the idea for this concept back in the mid 90's, and started to work actively with the concept development in 2003. An internal, test-bench, full scale prototype was built and tested by 2005."

"The preliminary engineering phases were carried out in parallel with patent applications, which led to the filing of patents in 2004. Patents were granted in the USA and Norway in 2005. Regarding patents, a new application has been filed in 2010, which opens for a global patent coverage process / pending patents from 2011."

In 2006, the process of designing and engineering the second, Industry-Standard / Concept-Demonstrator / Show-Bike that now has been presented at the AMD World Championship of Custom Bike Building 2010 started. As a first step in this development process, a contractual cooperation with Krugger Motorcycles / Fred Bertrand was established, and shortly thereafter, a similar contractual cooperation was initiated with Mark van der Kwaak of dbbp.com."

"Mark van der Kwaak and myself worked closely together on the basis of the existing patented solutions, and due to Mark's participation, new, and more advanced functionalities for the vehicle adjustment were developed. Mark has also been responsible for all CAD design for the frame / chassis / adjustability mechanisms for the Veon Prototype bike."

"Fred Bertrand has been the designer and builder of the complete Veon Prototype bike. Fred and I decided together to aim for a 70's cafe racer style bike. Fred then went on to build a fantastic looking bike, based on a V-Rod powerplant, Beringer brakes, Rizoma controls, Wild Hog seat, RSD wheels and TRP shocks."

Source AMDchampionship.com