Dad, I Wanna Buy An Orange County Choppers Motorcycle, What Could Go Wrong? 

"Tuned in for the workmanship" made me bust out laughing ! My dad used to watch this show and sometimes I would watch it with him. He used to point out to me and be amazed at all the items that they fabricated; and I used to say to him I do all that same stuff ! I know working at a valve company that fabricates distribution assemblies for polychemical refineries is not all that exciting but it is the same skill set (if not harder!). He would just laugh and say " No one is filming where you work at" and he was right; it was a real job with real consequences for yelling at your boss everyday !!!

Just proves that television can hype anything, and people will pay an outrageous price for it.

You lost me at Paul Tootle 😂

There’s a tv presenter in Brazil that lost his leg riding one of these. A collision? No. His leg got caught in the belt of the transmission.

I've never heard a good thing about their bikes.

Watch someone like Allan Millyard to see a true genius at work

I liked watching senior slam the door and Mikey talking about something completely different than Choppers😅

When American choppers first started it was a great show. Problem is if making bikes that aren’t practical or truly rideable they aren’t true bikes to me.

when u pull up on ur custom chopper and think u are so kool but everyone says " wow look at that douche "

Don't ever call those overpriced pieces of garbage a chopper

They were never real motorcycles, just sculptures to display in a sports bar.

As riders,we call them "the rich man's folly"

They showed some older Triumph choppers that Senior had built that looked pretty nice, but the stuff they created for the show all looked like a real pain in the ass (literally) to ride.

They didn’t use OEM Harley engines. Most were S&S engines. The wiring was the thing that scared me the most. It was really questionable.

The Harley shop down the road from OCC was where everyone from the area went to get a bike.

The toodles lol lol 🤣

no sh*t. I'm no mechanic or bike builder but even i could see that the bikes were shoddily built and completely impractical as bikes.

OCC bikes are over-priced trash. The Geico bike they built was valued by OCC at $140,000, and it just recently sold for $10,000, with the trailer, and the RC boat included. I saw another OCC built bike they valued at $80,000, after the owner had it for a year he sold it for $8,000. They are poorly built, have all kinds of problems, no warranty, and are very dangerous to ride. Some of them have very bad brakes, and on a heavy bike that is bad news. If you bought one, you got robbed. And the giveway bikes they made were even worse than the regular bikes. The wiring was bad, the battery does not stay charged, the front brakes are worthless, and they were so stingy building it they did not even put a primary drive cover on it, so if your pants got in it you end up with a chewed up leg. They said they were worth $60,000 to $80,000, and when the owners tried to sell them they were lucky to get $10,000 for them, or less.

In Europe this…people…were always considered clowns. They only build pieces of crap.

Overpriced dangerous pos bikes bad craftsmanship lousy hp, worth 1/10th of its value now

This show was very entertaining, and it was great for companies that wanted an episode featuring their company and then have a show bike that was used as a promotional tool and could be driven on to a stage at their events. Yea, never knew why a regular person would buy their bikes though.

BLOTCHY WELDS CUSTOM BIKES!! The one that got me was the spider bike where the belt was rubbing on the inner primary. They took it apart and 'machined' it with a hand grinder. I'm guessing the mill wasn't working that day. 😄

As a lifelong rider, I have to chime in here. To help establish my background, I started riding when I was 12 on a Honda 50 Sport - not the step-thru sissy kind. I've raced 250 Bull Taco's in half-mile dirt flat track racing, Raced the same bikes in motocross, as well as jumped a few cars off ramps, I got my first 54 Panhead when I was 16 and rode and rebuilt that bike many miles and many times. Been in a couple 1% support clubs, Rented or owned just about every Harley ever made as well as many many other makes and models, and currently own a 07 Big Dog K9 Chopper. OCC bikes are not Choppers. They were corporate billboards and in my mind represented everything a chopper ain't. I thought the show itself sucked but who cares right? Jessie James Bikes are choppers and so were Indian Larry's bikes along with some other builders. As far as rideability is concerned - it comes down to each individual bike. You can just say all choppers suck when it comes to how they handle or for that matter how reliable they are. The worst bike (s) I've personally ever ridden are a lot of stock Harley's with the Electra Glide full dresser being the worst. Besides sitting on top of the bike as opposed to sitting down in the bike (like on a Chopper) you get the full force of the wind hitting you straight on so you have to attach a stupid windshield to bock it and that top rim at 6'4" hits me right at eye level. That same windshield caught a huge gust of wind coming around a tractor-trailer going up a hill hauling ass putting the bike into a death wobble. Anyone who has ever experienced one of these at a high speed knows all you can do is hold on, not overreact and hope you are right with Jesus. 800 pounds of underpowered, overpriced crap as far as I'm concerned. With that as a personal experience, as far as I'm concerned, all bikes are cool. But again, OCC bikes were not Choppers and were made for corporate advertising/marketing purposes.

Got to meet Billy Lane once and he stated that he refused to work on occ bikes if someone brought one in

OCC has become famous for building fabulous looking bikes that are either next to or completely unrideable. I'm willing to bet there's not a single build made by them that has 1,000 miles on it. Most don't even get ten miles in their entire lifetimes. They're SHOWPIECES, not built for or intended to drive, at all. Yeah, they'll start, usually. But ride one? No thank you.

Maybe its because the audience where focused on the family fights, but on all those snippets on YT I never saw the Teutuls doing decent work. I once saw where Teutul Jr. tried to make some kind of 'seat' out of fiberglass but that was such a crappy thing that I was wondering how a professional could do such a rubbish thing.

Impractical junk that looks nice and runs like sh*t.

I have to admit that I'm surprised at the number of people surprised that motorcycles with no rear suspension tend to have a hard ride. To me, it's like being surprised that lions aren't herbivores.

Let me make an outrageous guess... Because it is a "BIG" POS"

I know two guys who bought OCC bikes back in the day. One paid 65k and the other 80k (these are the prices i was told, I didn't see invoices). They look good from thirty feet away but the welds and paint looked like a dog chewed on them up close. They are also unreliable, uncomfortable pieces of shit. I used to work with a kid who built Harley hard tails as a side hustle and he put together better looking and running bikes out of his garage in his spare time than OCC could with a full crew and multi-million dollar shop. The problem with both is that they are powered by a gutless EVO motor. The more expensive of the two OCC customs had an S&S in it and still barely had the power to get out of it's own way. I went riding with the kid that did it out of his garage and one of his friends and got told my poor little 750 wouldn't even be able to keep up with the 1200s. After his buddy peeled off we stopped at a light and I gave him the jump off the line and let him grab second before I took off. He was in third by the time I blew by him still in first gear. TLDR: Custom Harleys are like putting lipstick on a pig or fake tits on an octogenarian. Also, when you ride a V4 that's just starting to make good power at a Harleys redline then picking on them is a fun past time.

What's the point of building a trailer queen if you can't ride it?

“Hey, hey we’re the Toodles some people say we’re Toodling around”

They only looked good, but rode rigid and uncomfortable... It was appearance over funtionality...

Their bikes were made to look good from 30ft away and nothing more. It was garage art.

I knew a guy years ago that had a chopped out Bonneville. The rake was bad, and the front tire would skip back and forth. I found that out when I took it for a ride once. Never would get near it again. My closest friend at the time had a slightly chopped out Harley. This was 42 years ago. It ran and cornered so smoothly. He could hit 110 easily. We did the work on it. It was tight. May he RIP. He lost his bout to diabetes. Never had an accident. I used to enjoy those shows. Never had a desire for one. Most were to quickly built for a fake deadline to add to the drama. And you could look at it and your back would hurt. Some had hot engine parts to close to the rider, barely a seat. Open drive chains,etc.. They were for a short ride to a bar, or to be displayed.Some were overpowered, most were under powered. The wiring was quick and more designed for a bike built 100 years ago. Some to close to moving or hot parts. Etc....... You needed a jump box just to start them. Overpriced.

*Indian Larry's Grease Monkey panhead chopper* was the epitome of what a chopper should be. While a lot of people could argue for a front brake and other safety features, the first time that I saw the Grease Monkey in *Easyrider's Magazine* I knew that I would seldom, if ever see another chopper to equal it. As much as the stretched fork choppers recieved 99% of the attention from fans and media, for me the Grease Monkey and other similar bikes that were *RIDEABLE* were the bikes that I fell in love with. I never saw an Orange County Chopper's creation that could hold a candle to a bike like the Grease Monkey. An over the top bling chopper doesn't equal great art. Regardless of how much some new money idiot is willing to spend on one.

Thank you OCC for inspiring the Honda Fury

Hard tails were used in many pre 1950 bikes and could be quite rideable but they had high profile low pressure rear tires and plush sprung saddles, which occ choppers dont.

There are a whole lot of shops that build "custom bikes" like these, not only OCC. A serious biker would never consider buying one for his daily ride. They're meant more as works of art to be displayed as a statement in the corner of a living room of a wannabe biker with too much money. Or hung as decoration on the wall at a biker bar for all to gawk at and shiver in horror. Most of them will probably end up on the scrap heap in 20 year time because of just how useless they are. Real choppers though are on the road for decades. My brothers Harley is over 40 years old and still going strong. And I've even seen one on the road from 1972!

They are a great way to turn $100K into $9K.

Please don't call th a garbage these fools put together a chopper. Far from it

Went to OCC when they were in their hayday. The store and showroom very cool. And they had all the theme bikes they did for TV in the showroom. I was shocked by the poor quality of workmanship. The welding was shop class grade 9. The fab pieces were just ugly and, in most cases, seemed out of place. We went over to Jrs shop, and where Cody worked. While we were greeted nicely and they were extremely hospitable. These other shops were more of the same poor quality. The other positive was the paint. Whoever did their painting really did nice work.

Custom as in good luck fixing anything.

No suspension, no instrument gauge, difficult steering. What is it to like about choppers? Oh wait, I have a all dcik so I need one.

they kind of missed the whole point of choppers

With ridged bikes let some air out of the rear tire and that takes care of that.

Not a fan of shows where the main draw is two idiots screaming at each other.

The whole thing was mainly a TV show, and the bikes were basically art works, not practical motorcycles. I enjoyed watching it at the time, but I imagined the machines would be extremely uncomfortable to actually ride. Seems I was right.

Another hater getting views by trashing an actual known entity , those bikes were for marketing companies, get real

I saw 2 occ bikes at a dealer back when they were still on tv and they were priced at 75,000. each. The welds were terrible (looked like bird droppings) ,the cables were not routed properly and the controls were cheap. The custom paint wasn't quality either. I'm not a tall guy but sitting on it I couldn't see over the gas tank. Other than that it was not really ok.

Very good display pieces.

That's it? One bike? They didn't build any good bikes? smh

Dont understand how these can be road legal .Surely they do not meet ant vehicle construction and or safety standards .

I remember a lot of guys were building their own and cornered themselves with the idea they could figure it out. Someone offered me $30000 in parts for $25000 to try to get out of his problem project

Those bikes are junk they're useless😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

The Toodles

These bikes are not meant to be ridden.

Nothing but a vanity road ornament.

They are garbage. The guy across the street bought Anne Nicole Smiths pink OCC bike. He was so sure he bought a collectors item. It looked like 12 graders built it in shop class….😂

Bro hasnt even seen the show based on how he says their last name

People aren't stupid...but the public are idiots.

Proof that there will always be people with more dollars than sense.

Nobody bought them to ride the bought them for advertising. Jesse James, and Indian Larry built theirs both to look awesome and ride the heck out of.

1340cc, and only 62hp! A 1976 Honda Cb750 has 67hp.

There's a lot of people with more money than brains.

"Display only".

I'm not sure how I feel about riding a bike with a foot wide rear tire ..

The customer is NOT always right. And never work with family

dont like hard tail dont buy em - simple

Very over priced junk

If ya can't fit a chick on the back, the bike is WORTHLESS!!!! 🤣👍🏻

AND - the OCC bikes are NOT even street legal - lol

American ROBBERS😮

Rigged rear ends are just a bad idea

If it wasn't for Hollywood making money off that junk you would never heard of it😂😂😂

Senior needs professional help, and I'm not talking about a blacksmith 😅

I’m wondering, did they used to build quality bikes? And did the issue with the bikes that they built after they became famous come about because of the producers of the show trying to force time frames? I mean they were around for quite a while before the show weren’t they? And you don’t last if you don’t put out a decent product. So what about all the bikes people bought from them before the show? You hear nothing about those bikes and the quality.

Ok rule of thumb, anybody that goes discovery channel Holly Wood not good .

If you want a comfortable ride maybe don't buy a bike that clearly has no suspension or seat springs? Was he surprised by that?

EDDIE'S WHEELS FOR PETS

No Tanks, I’ll take a Big Dog any day over an OCC

You can't build those crappers well enough to be safe, let alone rideable.

"Tootle"...Seriously?

Tootul huh?

I have seen a lot of OCC bikes, road one. They are garbage.

The turdles

How can a guy make a video about American Chopper and have no idea what their name is? Tootle? The guy obviously never even watched the show.

Surprisingly... "They fall apart " didn't make the list.

Consensus says they were show and no go, or reliability

Yes the Toodles built a chopper empire. Ask Mike Rowe how to pronounce the name. Geeze. lol

Your description of choppers only fits OCC’s bikes. A properly built chopper rides great all day long

Toodles?

OCC was doomed from the start, even with all that Discovery channel money Sr still went bankrupt !!!

I never got it, but I'm not into Mig-15's.

There's a sucker born every minute 😅

OCC ordered cheap Chinese engines and parts. The bikes were unreliable, and the money spent went towards the shop sniffing coke

This is wild. Custom everything lol. Most of this crap was bolt on parts. Bolt on parts that didn’t fit with bikes that were never complete. This show was about parts advertisement except the show made the parts companies look bad. The theme bikes were junk and plagued with problems and bad workmanship but they made tons of money on them. Everyone knows custom motorcycles don’t hold value but when you cannot get back 10% of the original price (not investment) you really created a pile of hot garbage. High five.

I like Shawn and I like to show, but let's be serious. Anybody who buys an Orange County chopper is buying it for the novelty. Not for the finished quality. It's to say that I bought a bike from orange county chopper. Secondly, nobody buys a hard tail and complains about the ride that's just morronic. Of course it's ruff.... The bikes were built most of the time in mere weeks, and they were tepically built to be sold in fund raisers.....they are show bikes.....

Tootle?

As a Harley owner of many years, I tuned into this programme - how fecking boring.