I think I ended up tied for something like 45th place with Retro Rocket, but I've seen people ignore exotic cars for it when I ride. I can't compete on craftsmanship with the top builders, but I consider it a win that it spreads cheer wherever it goes and when everyone asks me about the bike, I tell them it was for a bike building contest, and they are all shocked that I didn't win. People vote in different ways, too. I go for the most original ideas and the highest craftsmanship, myself, but I think a lot of people vote by what they would want for themselves, which leads to the well built, but more mass appeal designs cleaning up. The more involved people also seem to get more votes (I'm used to losing popularity contests—like Spinal Tap, my appeal is a lot more selective, but unlike them, it's always been that way). I generally think the top bikes are all deservingly the top bikes, but down the line, I often scratch my head at the rankings. Mostly, though, I'm lazy and I like to enter the build offs when I have something to build because the deadlines help me finish in a reasonable time (or at least "finish" close enough to work and look complete enough so that I can ride it until I can get to resolving the final touches or fine-tuning/redoing an engineering solution).