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Beemer Chopper, you have been warned
« on: September 07, 2018, 10:06:15 PM »
Shield your eyes


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Were there no Sportsters at the wreckers that week???

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Re: Beemer Chopper, you have been warned
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2018, 10:22:33 PM »
 That just ain't right  :shocked:

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Re: Beemer Chopper, you have been warned
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2018, 11:16:41 PM »
oh my...this went to the infinity and beyond...

Well, I concur not no one biker has the same taste as the next one... :shocked:
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Re: Beemer Chopper, you have been warned
« Reply #3 on: September 08, 2018, 12:08:32 AM »
I just don't understand...


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Re: Beemer Chopper, you have been warned
« Reply #3 on: September 08, 2018, 12:08:32 AM »

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Re: Beemer Chopper, you have been warned
« Reply #4 on: September 08, 2018, 04:52:31 AM »
Ivan, my Eastern European guzzi nut friend built up a rusted 850t into a chopper like that...won the people's choice award one year at IMOC...can't find the foto anymore but it was surprisingly well done

I think he did it just to piss off the purists...it was great to see those offended, those laughing, and those that were impressed. It certainly made you one or the other. He took a lot of heat for it.

The straight thru pipes silenced the audience...... :bow: :evil:
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Re: Beemer Chopper, you have been warned
« Reply #5 on: September 08, 2018, 04:56:32 AM »
No, no... :D

This is a good post.

No element of disgust here. This is just good fun.
We all need an honest laugh after a hard week's work.

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Re: Beemer Chopper, you have been warned
« Reply #6 on: September 08, 2018, 05:23:32 AM »
No, no... :D

This is a good post.

No element of disgust here. This is just good fun.
We all need an honest laugh after a hard week's work.

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I think you have the correct take on this one..

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Re: Beemer Chopper, you have been warned
« Reply #7 on: September 08, 2018, 09:39:56 AM »
Lots of folks outside the US used non-Harley's for choppers because that is what was available. I'm guessing that that R60/2 (or maybe an R50/2) was involved in a front end crash...
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Re: Beemer Chopper, you have been warned
« Reply #8 on: September 08, 2018, 10:16:26 AM »




My euro Facebook friend’s bike  :thumb:
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Re: Beemer Chopper, you have been warned
« Reply #9 on: September 08, 2018, 11:06:27 AM »
I don't like choppers,  but at least it's more interesting than the typical trash.
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Re: Beemer Chopper, you have been warned
« Reply #10 on: September 08, 2018, 12:56:07 PM »
I think it is funny.

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Re: Beemer Chopper, you have been warned
« Reply #11 on: September 08, 2018, 01:15:48 PM »
I would loveto take that to th bmw National...🤗

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Re: Beemer Chopper, you have been warned
« Reply #12 on: September 08, 2018, 01:58:53 PM »
very stool

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Re: Beemer Chopper, you have been warned
« Reply #13 on: September 08, 2018, 02:34:14 PM »
I can see that look with the Russian Ural solo bikes made into choppers.

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Re: Beemer Chopper, you have been warned
« Reply #14 on: September 08, 2018, 03:17:22 PM »
I would loveto take that to th bmw National...🤗
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You would need a 5 gallon barf bucket. LOL

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Re: Beemer Chopper, you have been warned
« Reply #15 on: September 08, 2018, 03:44:53 PM »
Needs apes for that finishing touch.

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Re: Beemer Chopper, you have been warned
« Reply #16 on: September 08, 2018, 04:52:24 PM »
I would loveto take that to th bmw National...🤗
I would love to go with you....

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Re: Beemer Chopper, you have been warned
« Reply #17 on: September 09, 2018, 09:06:36 AM »
When it really should look like THIS!! :thumb: :cool: :wink:




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Re: Beemer Chopper, you have been warned
« Reply #18 on: September 09, 2018, 09:20:08 AM »
It be fun to own at $875.50 just to ride it into a national BMW rally, but not at $8,755.
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Re: Beemer Chopper, you have been warned
« Reply #19 on: September 09, 2018, 09:22:52 AM »
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Re: Beemer Chopper, you have been warned
« Reply #20 on: September 10, 2018, 04:48:15 AM »




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Re: Beemer Chopper, you have been warned
« Reply #21 on: September 10, 2018, 06:43:57 AM »
Needs apes for that finishing touch.

Yep.. :thumb:
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Re: Beemer Chopper, you have been warned
« Reply #22 on: September 10, 2018, 07:31:01 AM »
I think if they reshape the cylinders & heads to have a leading edge, it will fly  :angel:
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Re: Beemer Chopper, you have been warned
« Reply #23 on: September 10, 2018, 08:28:42 AM »
I think it's great. Back in the far past, folks chopped everything. No motorcycle was safe. I remember being asked more than twice if I had a motorcycle, when I replied yes, the next question was,"Is it a chopper?" Still have my first, '68 Bonneville with a rigid frame and 800CC flat tracker motor.
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Re: Beemer Chopper, you have been warned
« Reply #25 on: September 10, 2018, 03:01:06 PM »
Years ago Paul Montgomery who worked at Pro Italia in Glendale, CA had a very nicely done Moto Guzzi chopper. No idea if he's still at Pro Italia or if he still has that bike. But it was really nice IMHO.

Last year at the Chattanooga Car & Bike show there was another Moto Guzzi custom semi chopper. It was, in a word, stunning. I think I looked at it and talked to the builder for over 30 minutes. Every time I looked at it I saw something else custom and crafted beautifully. Yea, he said he heard a lot of pushback from Moto Guzzi people. Nearly everyone else, motorcycle person or not, loved it.

Add ape hangers and an extended Sugar Bear springer front end to the 'correct' picture of the white BMW posted by JJ and you'd really get people in an uproar. I love custom bikes, whether or not I'd ever want it is irrelevant to me.

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Re: Beemer Chopper, you have been warned
« Reply #26 on: September 10, 2018, 03:08:24 PM »
I love choppers. Love them. The more "homebuilt", the better.

What says "motorcycles" more than someone buying a ratty old bike, getting it running, and making it into something unique? They're not all to my liking, but they're also not my bike.

Nah, I'm all over it. Love it. As long as they get ridden, I have nothing bad to say about any of them.
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Re: Beemer Chopper, you have been warned
« Reply #27 on: September 11, 2018, 04:13:11 AM »
I love choppers. Love them. The more "homebuilt", the better.

What says "motorcycles" more than someone buying a ratty old bike, getting it running, and making it into something unique? They're not all to my liking, but they're also not my bike.

Nah, I'm all over it. Love it. As long as they get ridden, I have nothing bad to say about any of them.

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Re: Beemer Chopper, you have been warned
« Reply #28 on: September 11, 2018, 06:41:53 AM »
While I no intention of ever owning a chopper I do appreciate a well crafted one. Show me you care and I'll pay attention. Grunge / rat bikes bother me though...
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Re: Beemer Chopper, you have been warned
« Reply #29 on: September 11, 2018, 06:53:30 AM »
For me Choppers have a place.  if well executed they can actually handle quite well for a chopper meaning that they are safe enough to ride on the road and go around curves.

One of my favorite bikes was my '85 Honda Shadow 700.  After the jeep took me out while sitting at a stop sign it was 20 years before I bought another cruiser style bike because of the cherished memory of that bike.







It was definitely chopper inspired.
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