American Choppers

[Big Paul]

Did anyone see the TV ad of the up coming American Choppers?
I think the episode is call "Americian Choppers Abroad" The ad has Mikey in a Kilt!!! Should be intersting to watch!

[Yaish]

Just saw that ad myself. I havent watched AC in a while, since its basically all the same show, just the bikes change (Sr. bitches, Jr. whines, Mikey screws something up, Vinny and Rick fix everything and get the bike done on schedule)

I might have to watch that episode Monday night though, if I'm not doing something related to Halloween.

[flyv65]

Ya know, I watch that show on a semi-regular basis, almost entirely for Mikey. I'm not a big fan of the 'chopper craze" sweeping the nation/airwaves for a number of reasons, but I've started to view Mikey as a metaphor for America: a little over-hyped and occaissionally way off base, but basically a good kid.

Bryan...and he makes me laugh. Did you see the episode where he decided to pitch in by offering everyone Scope?...

[Mike1]

I worked for a time at McKinney Corp. Race Cars, a race car fabrication shop. Having seen the fabrication techniques used there, I watch some of the techniques at Orange County and just cringe.

I've seen a couple of their customer bikes and they were enough to make anyone cringe.

C-R-U-D-E, in my not-so-humble opinion. Cut-off wheels and cold-roll do not a custom make.

[flyv65]

Exactly, Mike! I've seen some local bikes where the welds look like some one took a stack of dimes and spaced them perfectly around the joint: you'd swear it couldn't be done by human hands. that kind of craftsmanship is remarkable anyplace you find it, much less on a (stunningly expensive) toy.

I guess the show puts motorcycles in the public eye, and that can't be a bad thing if drivers become more aware of us for *any* reason to my way of thinking. I just wish people realized that the custom bike market is just one aspect of the sport: you don't need $100K to get on a set of wheels, just the desire and the determination, mostly.

Bryan...does it show that I'm a rider coach?...

[bubba]

Those customs don't get much road time. Seems like a waste of a bike to me.

[Sciuropterus]

I liked it better when choppers were home-made. I built my first chopper ( a Triumph) when I was 20 (1986), because I could not afford to do anything else. It was an unreliable piece of crap, but I built it all myself, and the project was a lot of fun, and very educational. I built several Harleys from scratch after that over the years, each one better than the one before.

[Raphael]

I bet that family is going to make fun of mikey and his kilt. I don't think they are going to have anything nice to say about it.

[Jimmy Carbomb]

You talking about this?

[highlandtide]

I would love to be able to take credit for convincing them to wear kilts when I went to see them in Myrtle Beach a while back...Vinnie said then that he would get Mikey in a kilt!

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