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I'll just never understand.............

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I don't think it looks to bad but I have definitely seen better ones
 
For sake of a chopper its not a bad attempt honestly. Tho they do all kinda look the same...but meh..im building a cafe...they all kinda look the same. Lil personal touches make the difference i suppose.
 
TheCafeKid said:
For sake of a chopper its not a bad attempt honestly. Tho they do all kinda look the same...but meh..im building a cafe...they all kinda look the same. Lil personal touches make the difference i suppose.
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Cafe's at least have a function which defines the form, some of them I really like, yours comes to mind.
Custom bikes with serious improvements in braking, handling, comfort, power, it's all good.

The same amount of effort going to make a bike look cool at the expense of being nearly unridable, unstable, unsafe, and useless for any purpose other that looking cool is ludicrous to my way of thinking.

I just don't get it.
And the hacksaw specials where nothing is done except cutting off part of the frame are the worst.
 
Looks like someone dropped a bunch of swapmeet parts on with no eye for lines, form, or function. Unfortunatly most of the "custom" jobs I see are hack job abominatoins. Especialy with the old jap bikes because they are so cheap. While I do appreciate a nice "cafe" I see very few. I constantly see old ujm's where some azzhole cut off the ass end of the frame, cut the springs to drop the rear, yanked the fenders, added bar-end mirrors, clubman bars and a viper fairing, And think they have a cafe-racer. Uh no you effin missed the point entierly. Yeah whatever this is a rant- just sick and tired of retards who think that if the bike looks faster to them then it will perform better. Tune your **** first. Suspencion, Motor, Bodywork/mass centralization , then framework last.
 
In this day and age, chopper is a misnomer as, generally more things are bolted on than chopped off. In the main, home built efforts are not as offensive as those from the so called pro builders. Of them all the most offensive to my eye are those from Orange County Choppers "theme bikes". What a load of crap. That riders and major corporations buy them confounds me.

As GS riders we buy our bike for handling and performance. Choppers don't handle people. In a straight line you can do burn outs and go fast but in the twisties where all the fun is try and get that puppy to lean with extended forks, 8" wide primary and 350 rear tire.

These bikes are rolling abortions. Pretty to look at for some but at best metal masturbation. Not my taste either.

Spyug.
 
Well i will say this in defence of OCC. Those theme bikes are exactly that. They will probably RARELY be ridden, instead set to pasture in some corporate lobby or whatnot. Its a fad, the whole theme bike thing, and as you can see, its starting to fall off.
 
really? WE bought our bikes for performance...
umm.. ya! I'll go with that..


honestly.. i just thought that the heap with the suzuki label looked easier to get rid of if and when i give up on restoring it out of frustration..
 
choppers

choppers

i'll never understand why people think that a chopper can't handle well. if the trail is set up correctly the bike should handle fine. of course really extended fork chops may not be able to keep up in the twisties, that isn't what they are made for. check out this bike http://www.allamericanracers.com/alligator/pr_6-11-03.html not a chopper, but kinda the same concept, sitting in the bike not on it, made to handle well.
oh yeah the chopper thing is dying off, thank god, now prices might get back to normal.
 
Well, it's a good thing nobody is holding a gun to your head and making you buy a chopper. Some people hate bobbers or cafe bikes. Some people don't like the looks of stock Japanese bikes. Get over it. It's just like what you hear on the radio or see on tv. If you don't like it, change the station, but nobody really want sot hear you complain about it. I'll just never understand why people criticize the personal tasted of others. How does this encourage people tto post the fruition of theur hard work work? How is it positive at all? Can we get back to talking about jets or oil or tires?
 
Saw some cool choppers on Superbikes!

Saw some cool choppers on Superbikes!

Did a snippet on some guys out in Cali that were turning Ducati's into customized choppers....and then ran them 'round a track some place to show they'll still corner and run like a ducati. Use the same engine, custom frame w/swing arm....pretty cool..

Not my style but was certainly more than taking a hog and dropping some new forks in it....
 
drhach said:
Well, it's a good thing nobody is holding a gun to your head and making you buy a chopper. Some people hate bobbers or cafe bikes. Some people don't like the looks of stock Japanese bikes. Get over it. It's just like what you hear on the radio or see on tv. If you don't like it, change the station, but nobody really want sot hear you complain about it. I'll just never understand why people criticize the personal tasted of others. How does this encourage people tto post the fruition of theur hard work work? How is it positive at all? Can we get back to talking about jets or oil or tires?
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I do concur.
 
I have no problem with Choppers per se. I am just aghast at the piles of parts that some people put together and think that it looks cool. This particular bike is as ugly as a hat full of as$holes IMHO. Building a nice custom bike is artistic. You have to have lines and curves and things have to flow. Just chopping and welding the frame and banging on a new tank doesn't work.

My 2c
 
Not sure if anyone really wants to know this (it may twist your brain a little!!) but......... I have a little inside info on the "chopper" in question. The bike was built as a looker (????) not a rider, the shocks are show only it has no rear suspension, the front end is off a dirt bike fitted to give that long look without raking the frame. Now I like "choppers" but 70's style deathtraps are my thing this just looks like a waste of a GSX 1100!!! A few "OCC" mentions so here's a little story for you. I work with a couple of blokes that are "Hoggly Doggly" nuts, one has a mate who's mate bought an "OCC" shop floor bike all up with import duties ect 120k (AUS). The state that I live in has guidelines for modifications to your bike/car. Go outside the rules you need engineer approval, no approval no registration, matey boy did not know this.If you import a new production vehicle then it has to meet all current Australian Design Rules (ADR's), matey boy did not know this. The bloke takes the bike for rego inspection and is told it can not be registered, too much frame rake, wheelbase too long ect and that because it is a "production" vehicle it must meet all current ADR's just like a new suz/hon/kaw/yam/duc/tri does!! He can't even put it on a permit to ride it to a bike/car show ect so he now has 120k (AUS) of useless garage art!!!!:cry::cry::cry::cry:
 
One of my college roommates lived until recently on the same small island in Georgia as Davis Love. There was a lot of buzz in the community about his OCC chopper a few years back when it was being built and starred in an episode. Supposedly it was pretty nice for the few weeks that he owned it before it suffered some sort of catastrophic failure (my buddy is fairly mechanically illiterate, although a great family doctor, so he didn't know exactly what went wrong).

I always wondered what people think when they shell out the kind of cash that an OCC bike costs (especially the customs), and then you tune in and see them wailing on a part to make it 'fit'. I remember one episode where they misjudged the battery box size and after it was powder coated they couldn't get the battery to fit in. Cut to two 200lb+ guys standing on the battery to get it to cram in there. Wow, I can't wait for two years to go by and the owner has to replace that battery. It should be a snap.

As for the general look of choppers (and just about anything else), I tend to lean towards the 'form should follow function' and 'truth to materials' schools of thought. And most of the OCC and other themed/stylized choppers are in direct contradiction of those philosophies. A Blackhawk helicopter is an extremely purposeful design, and terrifying and beautiful at the same time. A chopper made to look like a Blackhawk is stupid and juvenile. It looks like it should be on the cover of 'No One Asked For It' magazine.

That being said, I can also appreciate some of the more artistic touches that certain builders incorporate into their designs. I think Indian Larry made some of the best looking bikes I have ever seen, regardless of genre or style.

At the end of the day though, I think that any bike is better than no bike. And whatever will get someone out safely riding is a good thing.

Although I gotta say, that Alligator bike linked up above might be one of the weirdest things I've ever seen.
 
I tend to agree with you there on the OCC thing. I remember the episode where they did the old school bobber, the creme and brown one, with the nickle plating instead of chrome. I was kinda ****ed when they went to put the tires on the powdered rims, and due to the powder coating they had to gorilla it on, in the process screwing up the powdercoat, and had "Nubby" pin stripe it to cover it up. What happens when those tires need changed?? Sheesh
 
Heh probably not, tho if *I* paid that much for a bike i would ride it in TONIGHTS weather...lol
 
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