{"id":14267,"date":"2016-06-22T10:36:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T03:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thai.webike.net\/news\/?p=14267"},"modified":"2016-06-22T10:36:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T03:36:59","slug":"harley-davidson-sportster-iron-883-nyx-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thai.webike.net\/news\/en\/harley-davidson-sportster-iron-883-nyx-2016.html","title":{"rendered":"Harley Sportster Iron 883 \u2018Nyx\u2019  2016 Custom King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">211 <a href=\"http:\/\/thai.webike.net\/Moto\/HARLEY-DAVIDSON\/\" target=\"_blank\">Harley-Davidson<\/a> dealers across Europe, Middle East &amp; Africa competed in the 2016<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Battle of the Kings competition for the title of top custom bike <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">builder based on customising the Sportster<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00ae<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Iron 883<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2122<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The contest was a two-stage process, with the first stage being a national online voting competition generating over 65 000 votes to establish the winning nationa<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">l \u2018Custom King\u2019<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0in each market,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> culminating in a head-to-head <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">contest between the 12 national champions at the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wheelswaves\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wheels and Waves<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> custom lifestyle event in Biarritz, France.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thai.webike.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Haeley-Sportster-Iron-883-Custom_King-2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14269 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/thai.webike.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Haeley-Sportster-Iron-883-Custom_King-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thai.webike.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Haeley-Sportster-Iron-883-Custom_King-2.jpg 666w, https:\/\/thai.webike.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Haeley-Sportster-Iron-883-Custom_King-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thai.webike.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Haeley-Sportster-Iron-883-Custom_King-2-24x16.jpg 24w, https:\/\/thai.webike.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Haeley-Sportster-Iron-883-Custom_King-2-36x24.jpg 36w, https:\/\/thai.webike.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Haeley-Sportster-Iron-883-Custom_King-2-48x32.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Athens-based Harley-Davidson dealership has achieved the auspicious title of \u2018Custom King\u2019 having been crowned the winner of the 2016 Battle of the Kings (BotK) competition, designed to inspire both existing and potential customers showing how easy customising can be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paschalis Tsalamagkas and Yannis Kourougiaouris built a caf\u00e9 racer called \u2018Nyx\u2019 that took inspiration from the Ancient Goddess of the Night \u2013<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a shadowy figure of power and beauty<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u00a0Viewed from the rear, \u2018Nyx\u2019 resembles a snake and from the front a panther, both creatures of the night. The deep gloss black paint with hints of silver flake alludes to a starry night sky.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mr Tsalamagkas, said: \u201cWhen we first decided to do this build we never expected to get this far. It\u2019s an honour to be crowned Custom King for 2016 and I want to thank the team back in Greece and everyone who helped us on this project.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mike Johnstone, Director of Marketing Operations for Harley-Davidson EMEA, said: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s safe to say<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that we\u2019ve been blown away by the creativity and attention to detail of the competing teams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thai.webike.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Haeley-Sportster-Iron-883-Custom_King-3.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14270 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/thai.webike.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Haeley-Sportster-Iron-883-Custom_King-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thai.webike.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Haeley-Sportster-Iron-883-Custom_King-3.jpg 666w, https:\/\/thai.webike.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Haeley-Sportster-Iron-883-Custom_King-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thai.webike.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Haeley-Sportster-Iron-883-Custom_King-3-24x16.jpg 24w, https:\/\/thai.webike.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Haeley-Sportster-Iron-883-Custom_King-3-36x24.jpg 36w, https:\/\/thai.webike.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Haeley-Sportster-Iron-883-Custom_King-3-48x32.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">More about Webike news&gt;&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/thai.webike.net\/news\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>&lt;&lt;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Hot Promotion&gt;&gt;<a href=\"http:\/\/thai.webike.net\/sale\/\"> check it out !<\/a>&lt;&lt;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Subscribe to Our Newsletter&gt;&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thai.webike.net\/create_account.html\">here<\/a>&lt;&lt;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"211 Harley-Davidson dealers across Europe, Middle East &amp; Africa competed in the 2016 Battle of the Kings competition for the title of top custom bike builder based on customising the Sportster\u00ae Iron 883\u2122. &nbsp; The contest was a two-stage process, with the first stage being a national online voting competition generating over 65 000 votes [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":14268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[242,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-custom-motorcycle","category-moto-reviews"],"acf":[],"a3_pvc":{"activated":false,"total_views":1969,"today_views":0},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thai.webike.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thai.webike.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thai.webike.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thai.webike.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thai.webike.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thai.webike.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thai.webike.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thai.webike.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thai.webike.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thai.webike.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}