OCC - cost?

[Doug]

I'm hooked on watching American Chopper on the Discovery Channel. It's amazing the stuff they can do with metal and the designs they come up with. How much do you suppose a custom bike costs from them?
$50K? 100K? more?

[John V]

I'm hooked on watching American Chopper on the Discovery Channel. It's amazing the stuff they can do with metal and the designs they come up with. How much do you suppose a custom bike costs from them?
$50K? 100K? more?

I love the show. I don't like their style in general, but I love watching them work.

I think a "basic" bike from them is around $50k.

JV

[Doug]

Some of their bikes are a bit wierd, like the Lance Armstrong one (IMHO)
but others are pretty cool.

[ZBB]

They mentioned the cost of one of the bikes they did as being ~$150k. But that was one of the corporate bikes.

[elbert]

I love the show. I don't like their style in general, but I love watching them work.

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Their choppers are very derivative, usually the same basic frame with different dress-up parts. How boring.
The tv show, otoh, is entertaining.

[Optimus Prime]

I think some of the fabricating stuff they do is neat, but they're nothing more than rolling sculptures.

As motorcycles, they're absolute crap. Rumor has it they don't last more than a couple hundred miles before everything starts vibrating loose and breaking. Not a single one of those bikes (and any like them) are designed to really be ridden. They're designed to drive to the nearest hang-out and park. They're just enormous, ugly, penis extensions.

:thumbdow:

[operknockity]

I love the show. I don't like their style in general, but I love watching them work.

http://smiley.onegreatguy.net/withstupid.gif
Their choppers are very derivative, usually the same basic frame with different dress-up parts. How boring.
The tv show, otoh, is entertaining.
http://smiley.onegreatguy.net/withstupid.gif

[FC]

I think some of the fabricating stuff they do is neat, but they're nothing more than rolling sculptures.

As motorcycles, they're absolute crap. Rumor has it they don't last more than a couple hundred miles before everything starts vibrating loose and breaking. Not a single one of those bikes (and any like them) are designed to really be ridden. They're designed to drive to the nearest hang-out and park. They're just enormous, ugly, penis extensions.

:thumbdow:

I agree. They are crafty, but they way they just throw and weld steel must yield one heavy MOFO of a bike. I don't find them pretty, just original. And I cannot see how they could be fun to drive. Just fun (to some) to be seen riding them. There is no engineering behind their designs.

[Doug]

I agree with all of you and I can't imagine anyone who buys one actually expects to ride it very far. most likely they sit in collections or are trailered within a couple miles or less and ridden the last bit.

[SteveM]

If you actually watch how they work, they really seem like amateurs. I mean who uses a step drill on a regular basis? I haven't seen a lathe or end mill anywhere in their shop. I gotta believe that most of their interaction is an act. They can't really be running a business that way.

[John V]

They did use an end mill to fix the Davis Love bike - the chain drive was hitting the inner primary.

When Paul Jr. was done with it, it looked like it had been through a nuclear holocaust, but they justified it by saying it was hidden. I'm sure Davis Love really enjoyed that part. :?

I've seen some choppers that I have really liked - none of them came out of OCC though. They tend to have jockey shift, foot clutch, flat black paint, flat tubular handlebars and skinny tires. "rat" bikes.

JV

[dredmo]

Here is what I would opt to do instead... as a matter of fact, a friend just bought one of these... badass.

http://www.customchrome.com/images/dosrockt.jpg $20K

http://www.customchrome.com/images/hc2.jpg $15K

You paint these yourself btw, or contract the work. They come in kits that you assemble.

The quality is awesome.

http://www.customchrome.com/hr3hm.html

This is something I may do opne day.

[dredmo]

I agree with all of you and I can't imagine anyone who buys one actually expects to ride it very far. most likely they sit in collections or are trailered within a couple miles or less and ridden the last bit.

A well-made chopper, built-to-ride, (as many are), are nothing like the heap-piles of shit you guys are describing.

The rumor is not true. Maybe it is true for these theme bikes, but OCC was on the map nationally on their own before discovery came to them.

[Doug]

I don't think the show displays everything. In a few episodes they have showed some nice N/C machines. I think a lot of what is shown is for TV.

Biker Buildoff is cool too. I really like the Japanese builders stuff, very retro