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OMG.... American Chopper
« on: February 18, 2018, 05:50:03 PM »
it's coming back............... .. :shocked:


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Re: OMG.... American Chopper
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2018, 06:02:39 PM »
So is Flat Track season, Sammy is riding on Factory XG(new & Improved)
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Re: OMG.... American Chopper
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2018, 06:34:39 PM »
 Heard their wives wanted new houses  :shocked:

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Re: OMG.... American Chopper
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2018, 06:42:20 PM »
Oh boy...

Can't hardly wait to watch them " push the envelope" with "innovative" new chopper designs.

Seriously though, I thought the whole chopper thing was over. Maybe they will be building innovative café racers on a whole 'nother level ?
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Re: OMG.... American Chopper
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Re: OMG.... American Chopper
« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2018, 06:42:43 PM »
Heard their wives wanted new houses  :shocked:

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Re: OMG.... American Chopper
« Reply #5 on: February 18, 2018, 06:45:54 PM »
The good news is that riding season is also returning.  So those of us not rooted to the sofa watching idiots swoon over shipping container houses and cookie-cutter "choppers" will have something interesting to do.  A better title for their crap would be "Assholes and Acetylene" on account of their stories are more about that.

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Re: OMG.... American Chopper
« Reply #6 on: February 18, 2018, 10:49:00 PM »
just when you thought things couldn't get much worse........
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Re: OMG.... American Chopper
« Reply #7 on: February 18, 2018, 11:27:24 PM »
Proof that a little bad taste goes a looooong way!

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Re: OMG.... American Chopper
« Reply #9 on: February 19, 2018, 09:30:22 AM »
And; what is wrong with container houses????????

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Re: OMG.... American Chopper
« Reply #10 on: February 19, 2018, 09:44:40 AM »
And; what is wrong with container houses????????

 Nothing at all Joe  :laugh:

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Re: OMG.... American Chopper
« Reply #11 on: February 19, 2018, 10:21:55 AM »
Gotta be better than watching professional sports or the walking dead..
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Re: OMG.... American Chopper
« Reply #12 on: February 19, 2018, 12:30:06 PM »
Gotta be better than watching professional sports or the walking dead..

so long as you don't dis Flat Track to Dusty. 
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Re: OMG.... American Chopper
« Reply #13 on: February 19, 2018, 02:29:15 PM »
so long as you don't dis Flat Track to Dusty.

Like anybody thinks flat track is a professional sport :tongue:
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Re: OMG.... American Chopper
« Reply #14 on: February 19, 2018, 03:35:27 PM »
And; what is wrong with container houses????????

I just threw out the packing crate houses as a poster child for "reality" television.  I could have mentioned ducks, garbage, catatonic models, or any of the other "staged reality".

If the house itself meets code.  Therefore nothing "wrong", although I'd question the shit-for-brains that makes a family of 4 think they're going to live in a 20' shipping container without producing one or more psychopaths.  What I don't like is the hours of life people waste as they sink into a couch hole watching the stuff. 

I know a guy who watches hours of the stuff and then thinks he knows something about building choppers, Alaska, finding good junk, or whatever.  He used to berate me for working on projects and riding and stuff instead of "educating" myself by melting my brain on shows like "Alaska Poachers" and "Violently Abusive Chef".  Anyone over the age of four who "educates" themselves with reality TV is in my opinion, mentally deficient.  If it's not that drivel, this guy I know watches exclusively golf, racing, or conspiracy TV.  And goddess help them if the wifey, dogs, or lack of the cheapest beer interrupts his endless education in any way!  The part that I laugh my ass off about is that he tries to come across as a brethren biker.  Brethren to the thread topic, I think, but a reality apart from being the real deal.

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Re: OMG.... American Chopper
« Reply #15 on: February 19, 2018, 04:34:43 PM »
Like anybody thinks flat track is a professional sport :tongue:

truthfully, it's a professional sport for about a half dozen competitors. 
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Re: OMG.... American Chopper
« Reply #16 on: February 19, 2018, 04:41:36 PM »
truthfully, it's a professional sport for about a half dozen competitors.

Castle Rock, WA used to host some flat-track nationals.  It would attract over 100k spectators.  The Truimph/BSA shop I worked for in the 70s sponsored a 500 Trophy flattracker, so I got to attend for free.  Mt. St. Helens killt Castle Rock because the fairgrounds and track was the only place to dump the ash they dredged from the Toutle River and scooped from the roads.  It's a huge man-made mountain of ash now, slowly getting covered in vegetation.

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Re: OMG.... American Chopper
« Reply #17 on: February 19, 2018, 04:42:27 PM »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG1ggy4rz2M&index=4&list=PLOLnZ6V2196MvsjNbum9O-KcPIHcCe2Id

This guy has little subscribers on youtube... but one of a very few people I saw/met that knows what he is doing and doing it right and... well... bloody awesome!
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Re: OMG.... American Chopper
« Reply #18 on: February 19, 2018, 05:11:52 PM »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG1ggy4rz2M&index=4&list=PLOLnZ6V2196MvsjNbum9O-KcPIHcCe2Id

This guy has little subscribers on youtube... but one of a very few people I saw/met that knows what he is doing and doing it right and... well... bloody awesome!
(v9 with a turbo and stuff if you are too lazy to check it out)

Same with this guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdVR6T0cxXg
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Re: OMG.... American Chopper
« Reply #19 on: February 19, 2018, 08:58:01 PM »
fun fact.

Those frames that were on the shelf to build OCC Choppers....

Many of them were made here in Okla City at Sam Wills Racing Innovations.  They also build top fuel drag bikes.  That's most of the design and engineering.

http://www.dragbike.com/top-fuel-motorcycle-legend-sam-wills/

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Re: OMG.... American Chopper
« Reply #20 on: February 19, 2018, 09:03:44 PM »
 Paul SR can't be all bad , his efforts rescuing animals are well known . Isn't he some muckity muck with the ASPCA ?

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Re: OMG.... American Chopper
« Reply #21 on: February 20, 2018, 06:01:22 AM »
Wait, is anything that appears only on YouTube actually considered TV?!?

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Re: OMG.... American Chopper
« Reply #22 on: February 20, 2018, 06:17:04 AM »
I went to thier shop in ny state one time. It was entertaining.
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« Reply #23 on: February 20, 2018, 06:27:30 AM »
I went to thier shop in ny state one time. It was entertaining.
I stopped between the time they became a Ducati dealer and attempted to have actual motorcycle gear/accessories amongst the TV trinkets and t-shirts, and the very end.

It was like a liquidation, I bought a t-shirt for a friend for $5.
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Re: OMG.... American Chopper
« Reply #24 on: February 20, 2018, 07:34:41 AM »
I went to thier shop in ny state one time. It was entertaining.

 :1: but not with any intent

We fell over it while we were lost trying to go ... somewhere

It was early in the morning so not open and I couldn't be bothered to hang around for a couple of hours ........ that's a pretty pants anecdote come to think of it  :wink:
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« Reply #25 on: February 20, 2018, 08:19:04 AM »
I was in pine island for some training. It was more fun than the hotel room
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« Reply #26 on: February 20, 2018, 10:04:41 AM »

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Seriously though, I thought the whole chopper thing was over.

No, the 2000s chopper as pop-culture fad is over, for sure. But choppers? Hell no.
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Re: OMG.... American Chopper
« Reply #27 on: February 20, 2018, 05:32:05 PM »
I stopped between the time they became a Ducati dealer and attempted to have actual motorcycle gear/accessories amongst the TV trinkets and t-shirts, and the very end.

It was like a liquidation, I bought a t-shirt for a friend for $5.

"I bought a t shirt for a friend for $5".   Sure you did, for a friend!!
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Re: OMG.... American Chopper
« Reply #28 on: February 20, 2018, 06:03:09 PM »
"I bought a t shirt for a friend for $5".   Sure you did, for a friend!!
Ha ha, they only had XXL and XXXL sizes left and though I've grown from an L to an XL in the 30 years since college, I've managed to hold it there.

I actually delivered the shirt to my Gilroy Indian riding buddy who I was meeting at the Heath MA Damn Yankee rally as we had a few years in a row.

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Re: OMG.... American Chopper
« Reply #29 on: February 21, 2018, 08:34:05 PM »
If I really felt the need to buy a chopper, this would be the first bike on my list.
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