Yep putting an XYZ sticker on the air breather, ordering a fender from Taiwan, and calling it a theme bike duped a lot of people. Discovery Channel should be ashamed of themselves for peddling those Clowns and beating the Dead Horse as long as they did.

Choppers For Life.

Remember what JJ said about the OCC bikes !

I'm not a street bike guy, but I did watch some of the bike build off shows with JJ, Indian Larry (rip), and Billy Lane. I would much prefer a bike hand built by any of those 3 characters long before anything OCC.

Chopper fad was not really big here, but there were a few. Everyone has moved onto ghey lifted quad cab trucks with donk wheels and neon light kits.

Never really got into choppers all that much as it got to a point that I liked performance motorcycles and choppers are just not meant to be ridden as a performance machine. Shoot some of them don't even have front brakes or sometimes no rear disc just a small hub drum brake. I'd take a bagger over a chopper any day hands down.

Try this with your chopper...........Baggers rule, choppers are for looking pretty drool.

I do not have a chopper, nor do I know what "looking pretty drool" means.

In 03 or 04 a friend of mine sold a nice mustang and bought a very nice chopper. It wasn't an OCC deal but it was a high dollar high quality bike. Great to look at! The day he bought it he rode it about 2 hours away and pretty much had to put the thing back together so he could get home. He learned real quick it was meant to display and not play.

Yep. If you haven't ridden a hard tail/ springer with no front brake and a rear brake pedal that you had to raise your foot way up off the peg to use(suicide style)............well, you just don't know what fun really is.

I had a hardtail with a solid mount 88 Twin Cam in it. It was absolutely gorgeous, but was about as much fun as sitting on a dryer with a pair of tennis shoes in it.

Automotive and motorcycle "fads" come and go all the time.

Hi-jacker shocks and extended leaf spring shackles. Custom vans with wizard paintings and shag carpet. "Bobber" motorcycles. Choppers. Pro Street cars with slicks and candy apple paint jobs. Lowered compact pickups. Lowriders. Hydraulics. Japanese cars with big wings on the back. Pro Touring. The current 4-door pickups with a lift kit and useless tires. And a million other fads that have come and gone that I am forgetting.

During each one of these people paid a premium to have the latest-and-greatest customized cool vehicle. And when they went out of style, they were left with a hacked-up customized vehicle that few people wanted to buy any more.

I keep cars for a while when I have them, and I guess that's why I gravitate toward the cars that are stock or very mildly customized. Because I know when the "fad" changes a stock car will still be stock....

Yeah that is a problem with letting the "art" get in the way of having something that is functional. Unless it is truly art, the price is going to suffer in the long run. There are a lot of custom cars that end up being worth much less than the work it took to build them because of the same issue. If you can't drive it or enjoy it then the value drops really fast even if it looks cool.

Tennis shoes ? ... try BOWLING BALLS

A bud in Michigan described it KINDA THAT WAY

Powerful point you just made, thanks for sharing, you should have made it 5 months ago when this thread mattered.

I always thought it was a California thing, picked up by the movies. You really need roads without potholes and plenty of highway. Put a real rake on one of these and city riding is a mess. There is still a Captain America bike in my dreams.

Laughing at all the comments. Sonny Barger said in his book that had they (Hells Angels) been smart in the beginning they would have bought BMWs instead of Harleys because of the reliability issues. But ex-military and cop bikes were cheap. I pretty much credit those guys for the "chopper" craze. And of course everyone wants to be a big bad biker and nothing says that like a chopper, tats and some patches sewn on a black leather jacket - riding comfort be damned !! Nowadays they all ride baggers!

Paul Sr. is now the spokesperson for a group of personal injury attorneys in Little Rock. He's doing TV ads for them.

https://www.callrainwater.com/practice-areas/motorcycle-accident/

haha he said sex

He is on one just like that here as well.

with big, GAY, front wheels, that look like they should be on a kid's plastic big wheel.
sorry, i don't like BIG GAY wheels and forklift tires on anything.