THE SHOW WILL GO ON!-- Euro 3 Homologation for Custom Chrome Europe RevTech 110 RevTech 100 and 88 to follow soon!

Wednesday, December 12th, in the afternoon at around 3:00 p.m. champagne bottles must've popped open at Custom Chrome Europe in Bad Kreuznach/Germany: They are the first aftermarket-distributor to crack the tough EURO-3 homologation. Custom Chrome Europe can offer the well-established RevTech 110 in E3-conform version, allowing to build new custombikes in a street-legal fashion for all the countries where those emission standards apply. You say that's possible with the Milwaukee-made engine too? Correct, but: Thanks to intensive research and development - both in terms of time and money - the RevTech 110 has achieved EURO-3 emission standards WITH CARBURETOR!

Interested? For sure! "We have seen the EURO-3 task quite early and reacted accordingly, starting the development well ahead of the new laws," explains Holger Mohr, President and Managing Director of Custom Chrome Europe, "since we offer our own exclusive motorcycle line, which has only two years ago been homologated for Europe, we had the duty in the name of our customers to take on the challenges of EURO-3. And we have acted rather than reacted."

In fact, a lot of dealers and competitors smiled in face of the T-shirts "Euro 3 - Viva la Revolución" that were printed for the November 2007 Big Twin Expo at Rosmalen. Especially since - at that time - most other distributors and engine builders just had a questionmark on their face and all one answer: "Our manufacturers are working on a injection solution." Who's laughing now? Basically, most engine manufacturers thought the homologation of a carburetor-fed engine for out of question, technically impossible - to many factors that influence each other have to be dealt with when emissions have to be minimised to achieve EURO-3. To achieve EURO-3 with an aircooled V-Twin is a difficult task, even with electronic fuel injection. Using a carburetor did yet seem completely impossible. It's sad but true, people who make those laws do neither care about the technical consequences of their restrictions, nor do they care about the look and the style of motorcycles. Custom Chrome Europe does.

They know: Very few custombike creators could dig into the wide and complex variables of electronic fuel injection systems - as beneficial in terms of power and performance these systems nevertheless are. Bulky electronic components such as blackbox, sensors and cables are difficult to hide and are contrary to a clean look - even the lure of programmable torque- and power-curves does not attract then. "Electronics = Devil's work" is programmed in the brain of too many old-school customizers who use their EFI, ABS, ASP and god-knows-what-else equipped cars every day.

V-twin riders are somehow more conservative and carry rather a screwdriver than computer-mouse and laptop. A fact that did not evade the CCE staff: "On purpose we did not choose the easy way, even though our path would be much more difficult and costly", explains Mohr, "we have a very clear idea of what our customers want - and we go to extremes to give them what they want. Even if the solutions are off mainstream or thought impossible by others."

"Reaching the EURO-3 emmision values with carb is a great achievement", adds General Manager Andreas Scholz. "the RevTech 110 is the version with the biggest displacement on all of our RevTech engines. Thus, the EURO-3 homologation of both RevTech 100 and RevTech 88 is only a matter of time, not a question of technical realisation." Technical details of the coup d'etat are of course kept confidential: Too much know-how and work had been invested to give it away. So much is known: Cleaning the wasted gas is performed by especially developed catalytic converters, of which no less than four are rumoured to be placed in the exhaust system. Along with a newly developed "Secondary Air Induction System" the emission limits are met. You don't have to be a specialist to realise that the inlet side has to be modified somehow too. The sensational fact is: All this is achieved without additional electrical or electronic components. "We are not only the first to offer a solution to our customers", explains Scholz, "we offer one without the necessity of advanced computer- and software knowledge ..."

During the last years, the RevTech engine in all its finish- and displacement-versions has become one of the "top sellers" of the CCE engine program - one that is mounted with pride even in the most high-class customs such as Marcus Walz' "TuNero" and all Custom Chrome Motorcycles up to the new "Cuba Libre". "The Lamb 2", the "Best of Show" bike of the dutch "Big Twin Expo" at Rosmalen - and the first European bike to win a ticket to the World Championship of Custombike Building to Sturgis - is also powered by a RevTech 88. As stated: The Show will go on!

Informationen: www.custom-chrome-europe.com