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This was the Weirdest Trend in Motorcycles (Choppers Explained) 

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CHAPTERS:
0:00 Intro
0:59 What is a Chopper?
4:30 Builders
5:06 Bobbers
5:40 Early Choppers
6:32 Regional Styles
7:24 Easy Rider
8:03 Growth in the 70s
8:27 CB750
8:49 Softails
9:21 Influence on Japanese Bikes
9:46 Contribution to Mods
10:29 Reality TV
11:25 Return to Roots
12:20 Final Thoughts

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@yammienoob
@yammienoob Год назад
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@davidbelen7199
@davidbelen7199 Год назад
Apart from his long winded jokes and the biker elitism these vibes are OK, informative.
@Slavishcarp
@Slavishcarp Год назад
I spat on a child today, thought I would watch this as punishment, not a dig at the video or you Yam, just impractical choppers
@darkiee69
@darkiee69 Год назад
Biker build off was a lot better than all the other chopper shows.
@5.56Chronicles
@5.56Chronicles Год назад
I couldn’t agree more.
@wranglercody8422
@wranglercody8422 Год назад
Facts. I used to love it when they had Indian Larry on there. He made the coolest bikes. RIP.
@shdwwzrd69
@shdwwzrd69 Год назад
Long live Indian larry
@AcmeRacing
@AcmeRacing Год назад
@@wranglercody8422 I remember when Larry's opponent couldn't get his bike started, and Larry helped him fix it. I wanted to win, but not as a DNS. He seemed like a great guy.
@errickkitchin36
@errickkitchin36 Год назад
I'm not a Chopper guy myself, but I have respect for them. Anything homebuilt that someone put their heart into will always have my respect.
@JokerInk-CustomBuilds
@JokerInk-CustomBuilds Год назад
I am one of the homebuilt rat- chopper riders... And thanx, means alot. I did pour my heart, soul and countless hrs into making it exactly like i want it. I do however like other types of bikes also. as a gearhead and craftsman anything mechanical usually has an interesting story... and if you look at a bike considering what it was made to do, most bikes have their own strokes of genius! :)
@micclay
@micclay Год назад
I disagree. It's like building an airplane that doesn't fly.
@billparker8954
@billparker8954 Год назад
@@micclay What if you put some metal flake on it, chrome the prop and extend it way out front? You can still trailer it to Sturgis.
@JokerInk-CustomBuilds
@JokerInk-CustomBuilds Год назад
@@micclay no... it is like building a lightweight personal aircraft while everyone else is buying cesna....
@gregorsamsa1364
@gregorsamsa1364 3 месяца назад
*Timothy McVeigh has entered the chat*
@MetalMustacheGarage
@MetalMustacheGarage 3 месяца назад
What i love about the chopper scene is the freedom of creative choice, and how one bike can tell such a rich story. Right now i'm building a bobber/ chopper out of a 1986 suzuki intruder that was given to me by a friend of the family. I tore the entire bike down to its bare frame with my dad, and every single part has been changed to fit my vision.
@Roaddog420
@Roaddog420 Год назад
It is so refreshing to listen to you yammer on reciting a script someone else wrote on a subject matter you know nothing about.
@roadwolf8026
@roadwolf8026 Год назад
Always !
@jkbigp
@jkbigp Год назад
Motorcycle history is so cool. I love ALL style of bikes, and I can never understand people that hate on certain styles or brands. Ride safe!
@gregorsamsa1364
@gregorsamsa1364 3 месяца назад
You even love OCC style choppers?
@ZP1993
@ZP1993 Год назад
I personally love those old school choppers from the 60s and 70s like the ones you see in Easy Rider,because most of them were built by their owners,so they show creativity and owner's personal preference (long vs short forks, telescopic forks vs springer vs girder, leather saddlebags or no saddlebags, back rest or no back rest, rear suspension vs hardtail, ape hangers vs Z bars vs T bars vs buckhorns vs six bend pullbacks vs standard handlebars, etc.),not to mention they look really cool. As for those 90s and 2000s choppers,they look cool,but they were made by bike builders for customers who can afford them,so most of them tend to look similar and they don't really tell much about what the owner wanted from his bike other than "I wanted someone to build me a chopper".
@larryfromwisconsin9970
@larryfromwisconsin9970 Год назад
I built a chopper as a daily rider in the 1980s. An x-Police bike, Shovelhead Harley, rigid Arlen Ness Digger frame, extended springer front end, no front brake, hand shift, foot clutch, open belt primary...
@MarkusFortius
@MarkusFortius Год назад
I’d chop the hayabusa only to see two motorcycle communities (chopper + squids) agree on something like it’s a terrible idea lol
@shadowmancy9183
@shadowmancy9183 Год назад
I'll do you one better- vicla it.
@RonaldReed-ul9du
@RonaldReed-ul9du Год назад
Having been around when Choppers were relatively new, I'm happy to hear you explain the various types of bikes people have been drawn to building or buying. I've heard so many people try to tell me a Chopper is a bobber or a bobber is a Chopper. Having an outlaw bike shop near my house, I often hung out around and asked, why's it called a Chopper. Simple, the head is "chopped" so the rake can be changed to allow a longer fork without raising up the height. A bobber keeps the stock rake but "Bobs" the back fender, or remove completely and use a single "saddle" as they were called back in the day and as the Yam master said, remove everything that's not absolutely necessary to ride it. Thx little buddy, I've been a fan awhile. I've had, starting in late 60's 175, 350 Honda's, a bultaco, Pan head Harley hard tail that I couldn't wait to get rid of to buy a CB750, a 360 Elsinore, 250 Elsinore, 250 Enduro Yamaha 500T Suzuki an XR500 Honda another 500T a 75 Gold Wing hot rodded out a 750 Ninja and others I'll remember later while sitting on the toilet. Also, my CB750 was heavily modded by a Honda tech aka Mechanic who was a sponsored racer and had parts not really available to the public. On that bike, I could easily outran Z 1 Kawasakis Oh, I had an XS1100 I didn't keep long, it was so so slow compared to what I expected. Thx for the entertainment Mr Noob!
@JosephStanek-jj3uo
@JosephStanek-jj3uo 8 месяцев назад
Put down the Crack pipe Ronnie.
@pcthayer
@pcthayer Год назад
I remember as a kid after seeing Easy Rider having a poster of their bikes on my wall. I never liked Capt. America's bike but loved Billy's. In later years, one of the guys I rode with had a chopper and the extended front forks were perfect for strapping a case of beer to, so they do have a purpose. 🙂
@NobodyWhatsoever
@NobodyWhatsoever Год назад
The first motorcycle wreck I've ever seen was a death wobble on a chopped -- also bright yellow like the thumbnail used for this video -- accelerating to merge onto the interstate neat Atlanta, probably having recently left the Buford, Ga. Harley dealership, whether for its purchase or from spending a little time in the shop.
@ruthlesshatchet6353
@ruthlesshatchet6353 Год назад
Shop near me has a custom chopper for sale. A guy traded it in on another bike. It has a giant piece of paper beside it trying to explain how much money went into making it. It also has an $60,000 price tag. That said it got there 2 years ago and now I think it is more of an ornament for showing off their style when you want in.
@fearsomename4517
@fearsomename4517 Год назад
I like Bobbers better than Choppers but I'd rather have a Chopper than a Big wheel Bagger.
@tobins6800
@tobins6800 Год назад
One thing I think helped knock back the chopper craze, the advent of manufacturer choppers. Namely the Fury and Stateline. Both are awesome and safe bikes. Honda put time and energy into engineering those things to be inherently safe (for a motorcycle).
@alihenderson5910
@alihenderson5910 Год назад
They proved that mainstream manufacturers didn't understand choppers and their ethos, the Fury bombed in the UK.
@GaToy54
@GaToy54 Год назад
I have thoroughly enjoyed my Stryker. Unlike the fury it wasn't made out of plastic.
@5.56Chronicles
@5.56Chronicles Год назад
I finally feel attacked lol currently working on a 77 shovel chopper.
@jakegarrett8109
@jakegarrett8109 Год назад
Should make the fenders out of shovels, then its a true shovel chopper, and use the handles as passenger footpegs.
@ThatsMe4723
@ThatsMe4723 Год назад
​​@@jakegarrett8109 the blue collar working mans chopper or should I say shovel(er)?
@JGreen-le8xx
@JGreen-le8xx Год назад
Shovel head was such a gorgeous looking engine. Was always my favorite looking of ALL the V-twins from Harley.
@5.56Chronicles
@5.56Chronicles Год назад
@@JGreen-le8xx totally agree,
@kennethanway7979
@kennethanway7979 Год назад
You do you bro! Don't let yourself settle for less! 👍
@ShaunHopkinsAVFC
@ShaunHopkinsAVFC 3 месяца назад
True choppers should be self built as intended. When I was young I helped my old man build his 55 Panhead chop, which was so minimalist it didn’t have a key. There was a toggle switch hidden high on the frame center. Those reality shows made a few nice art pieces, but no old school down and dirty choppers that were for daily use.
@ElectronicYouth
@ElectronicYouth Год назад
I built a shovelhead chopper and it annoys me to death when people with stock modern fuel injected bikes talk shit about choppers because they aren’t as fast. You’re missing the point here, it’s all about the esthetics and the feel, modern stock bikes just don’t look good. A 60’s 70’s chopper is a pinnacle of a good looking bike.
@pawelwis7215
@pawelwis7215 7 месяцев назад
Fortunately, over time, these awkward motorcycles are slowly finding their way back to where they belong, to the steelworks
@rhinehardt1
@rhinehardt1 Год назад
It's a shame that there wasn't even a mention of "Indian Larry". He was a true artist.
@africanwidow
@africanwidow Год назад
Hi. Nice work! Enjoyed the Yammie history of the chopper. Choppers are good. They have their place. Happy Memorial Day weekend!
@paradoxworkshop4659
@paradoxworkshop4659 Год назад
True fact: the only chopper parked at a dentist's office belongs to the dentist.
@middleagemoto
@middleagemoto Год назад
I own a dental office and ride a sport bike. Even when our parking lot is full, patients will walk in and say they know the bike belongs to me. I have no idea how they know, but they do.
@kelinryan8222
@kelinryan8222 Год назад
​@@middleagemoto cause you're the only one that could afford the Ducati Superleggera V4 parked downstairs. 😜
@middleagemoto
@middleagemoto Год назад
@@kelinryan8222 nah... I ride an rc390 and drive a hyundai sante fe. I live in the most expensive housing market in Canada. I can barely afford to rent a crapy one bedroom condo.
@X11CHASE
@X11CHASE 2 месяца назад
@@middleagemotoI’m in love with the rc390
@glenn6583
@glenn6583 Год назад
I have seen a guy’s drawings of his fantasy chopper drawn while he was doing a jail term. It was quite a picture, and it helped him keep his head while he was away from his family and friends. Choppers are pretty fantastically designed. I prefer more practical bikes but I miss out on style!
@JokerInk-CustomBuilds
@JokerInk-CustomBuilds Год назад
i made my rat chopper practical.... looks like a rat, but everything is newly made and fully functional. Starts every time and low maintenance, I even have a driveshaft instead of chaindrive.... I got electric heat, phone charger, 12v power in my ammobox sidestorage, a small windshield I can tie to the apehangers for long rides on the highway. bluetooth phone/music/intercom in my helmet, a cupholder for a steel mug besides the motor to keep my coffee warm, I got forward controls but also small center footpegs so I can move my legs around and I stack my luggage as a backrest and mechanical cruise control... I have had it for years and never dropped it once.... -What other luxury or practicallity do you need? :D -Compared to sitting on a streetbike, racer or adventure bike I feel like going on vacation lying down on a loud sofa! :D :D
@likkit6376
@likkit6376 Год назад
Mine was a 1950 Panhead, hardtail, raked and extended 10” over forks. Mini apes. Gloss black peanut tank. Built by me in 1972. Loved it. Sold it for $1900 in 1974.
@alphaforce6998
@alphaforce6998 Год назад
I loved it so much I couldn't wait to get rid of it two years after I "built" it. I then built a house in 1984 without a roof and the front door as the gate of my fence, but no windows because that's too new school. Loved this house. Sold it for $10 in 1985.
@strangersgt5632
@strangersgt5632 Год назад
I've been a motorcyclist for most of my life and have never looked at a chopper and thought "that looks dangerous".
@martist911wasits-not-real4
@martist911wasits-not-real4 Год назад
Read your comment at the exact moment he said that!
@ProductBasement
@ProductBasement Год назад
Bikes & Beards bought a chopper that I think had been built on Orange Country Choppers. Some guys paid $80k for this thing and it suuuuuuucked
@richthomson6174
@richthomson6174 Год назад
Please do a video on the the trend of giant front wheel clown bikes..The other trend of building useless, good for nothing riding monstrosities.
@WolfyFam
@WolfyFam Год назад
Thanks for the knowledge pal 👏🤜
@christopherdean1326
@christopherdean1326 Год назад
2:32. That's a girder front end, not a springer. 10:45. Teutel, pronounced "Tuttle". I'm a chopper guy down to the bone. "Captain America" from "Easy Rider" is close to my idea of perfection, although the Swedish look is very cool too. I have a '94 S&S Sportster currently being rebuilt for me in a generally Swedish style, but not as extreme as Fonda's panhead.
@A6Legit
@A6Legit Год назад
As if he didn't also watch OCC. Yams so pretentious
@jessISaRicePrincess
@jessISaRicePrincess Год назад
Although i think choppers are ugly as sin and with no suspension at the back not good comfort respect to you guys still
@JosephStanek-jj3uo
@JosephStanek-jj3uo 8 месяцев назад
Springer and girder are synonymous.
@christopherdean1326
@christopherdean1326 8 месяцев назад
@@JosephStanek-jj3uoIn your world, they may be, but for the rest of us they are two different things.
@fingers215
@fingers215 8 месяцев назад
Chopper were Basically the first real custom motorcycle. They don't ride all that good but park a nice one around any other motorcycles of any Band! The chopper will catch all the attention.
@FilterYT
@FilterYT Год назад
Nice job, thanks!
@MattJ2Silky
@MattJ2Silky Год назад
".....*COOLEST* trend in motorcycle history" fixed it for yall
@ColtonAplin
@ColtonAplin 8 месяцев назад
They will be speaking of street glides like this in 20 years. Looking at getting a chopper rn
@carlsberg-gs6rl
@carlsberg-gs6rl Год назад
OP mentioned Boss Hoss. They really should do a review of Boss Hoss Cycles. It is scientifically proven that motorcycles that have a V8 are awesome.
@orthodoxNPC
@orthodoxNPC Год назад
anything without fairings, windshields, and bags/boxes is cool in my book.
@justauser
@justauser Год назад
I like stock cruisers with small things like exhaust and lighting changes because I put alot of miles on my bike everyday and the further from stock you get the closer to the house it is
@boomdawg56
@boomdawg56 Год назад
I am a cruiser/bobber guy. Choppers don't really interest me except for the fabrication details. I don't care what the rear tire pressure is, a rigid frame hurts. I grew up around custom motorcycles, built in back yard sheds and garages, not on TV. I love to see nice fabrication of anything, motorcycles, cars, woodworking, but for me, motorcycles should have a suspension in the front and back, as well as brakes. For me, the worst part of the chopper craze is the idea that anyone with a cutoff grinder and a walmart welder can build one. Then they get upset at the local watering hole when nobody appreciates their "heavily customized" 1967 Suzuki 250 Hustler. I am not knocking self expression, I modify my own bike, but some guys shouldn't be allowed to use power tools. At this point, if I see pipes with header wrap, I just assume it is to cover the poor welds on the pipe. I ride quite a bit, usually cross country at least once a year, about the only time I see the "Boss, BigDog, super wambadine choppers is if I happen to be passing through Daytona, Laconia, or Sturgis during a bike week. They are usually on a trailer to get there, they go from the hotel to the bar a half mile from the hotel and back daily. Other than that, they seem to live in the trailer or the garage. I need more versatility than that in a motorcycle.
@allenseeallendo5844
@allenseeallendo5844 Год назад
If you’ve ever bottomed out a motorcycles rear shocks just imagine having no rear suspension at all. It’s like riding in a car with the rear axle welded to the frame and the suspension removed. Such a dumb trend.
@AcmeRacing
@AcmeRacing Год назад
I like looking at the OCC and Jesse James choppers. I think they'd be miserable to ride, and I'm happy on my 750 Shadow Ace. Aside from upgraded seats and saddlebags it's dead stock.
@toddkaperak4605
@toddkaperak4605 9 месяцев назад
I own 2 big dog prostreet choppers SS 117. Nothing beats a chopper.
@JokerInk-CustomBuilds
@JokerInk-CustomBuilds Год назад
41yrs old. Grew up watching Easy Rider. Built my own rat chopper. Make my own moonshine, grow my own weed... I see myself as a rare original in a sea of storebought accessories... "Isn't it uncomfortable?" "Can you do long rides without rest?" "Can it even start?" -I can make it do anything out of shere will and skill and I do so daily....
@bigkraus1
@bigkraus1 Год назад
Choppers are built not bought… i have had mine for over 25 years now… it is my first bike and will always be my first love. The only good thing about the shows in the early 2000s for both of us on a budget made parts a lot more available and cheaper later on.
@ElectronicYouth
@ElectronicYouth Год назад
100% also you have to be a mechanic to keep one running. Fixing shit on the side of the road is something you have to do all the time.
@phildicks4721
@phildicks4721 Год назад
I'm more impressed by someone restoring older bike back to its glory. Of the various customizers I kinda like the bobbers where the bikes get stripped down and customized in exchange for speed and performance. There is a practicality there that I find missing in choppers.
@swpost3
@swpost3 Год назад
IMO Yamaha makes the best “factory” choppers. The Raider(1900cc) and the Stryker(1300cc). They are super comfy, reliable and a blast to ride. I ride a stryker and have been asked “what kinda Harley is that” to which I reply, “the Japanese kind”. Then I giggle till I pee a little. And that’s my cool story l, bro.
@Benner10783
@Benner10783 Год назад
Did you forget about Honda and the Fury?
@ElectronicYouth
@ElectronicYouth Год назад
No such a thing as a factory chopper. You have to “chop” a frame of factory bike yourself in a garage to make it a chopper
@deltasixgaming
@deltasixgaming Год назад
Its the Gorilla Handle Bars thing that gets me I can't stand holding my hands over my head to ride
@brianperry
@brianperry Год назад
If motorcycles started out looking like choppers they would have been dead as a Dodo long ago....
@TLKjoe
@TLKjoe Год назад
The advantage of the springer or girder is that your average knuckle dragger can build one in his garage out of scrap in a weekend.
@tecolotegto
@tecolotegto 5 месяцев назад
I live in Wichita, KS where Big Dog choppers are made. I respect what they do, but the styling is ridiculous.
@browngreen933
@browngreen933 Год назад
I built a Panhead chopper in 1971 and rode it for 2 years. It was cool, but it was totally impractical. Since i wanted to ride and not just profile, i went back to stock and hate choppers to this day.
@FirstStateAirgun
@FirstStateAirgun Год назад
Road just about every style of bike under the sun and I love them all
@tankerrrtankerrr1987
@tankerrrtankerrr1987 5 месяцев назад
OCC bike cost $100,000 dollars now it's worth 5,000 dollars if you can find someone Dumb enough to buy it.
@axelwolfe1680
@axelwolfe1680 Год назад
I have loved choppers since i saw easy rider and the local 1% club that was in our town. But really think you need to do more homework, the chopper came from returned service men, usually using ex military bikes. It was the 2 wheel version of the hotrod, remove what you don't need and modify to the owners likes. It made it so the owners bike was uniquely a one of a kind bike..
@alwaysright8157
@alwaysright8157 Год назад
I didn't hear a word you said, I was looking at all the cool bikes.
@purelifeeereal
@purelifeeereal Месяц назад
my dad in the 2000s had his own conpany in arizona and he built bikes and made it in a magazine he a green and black custom bobber with a springer front end
@TerraMagnus
@TerraMagnus 4 месяца назад
If it started with your great grandpa and never stopped, that’s not a trend. I swear… people who don’t like and don’t respect chopper culture have no business pretending to educate others on it.
@KMakoENVtuber
@KMakoENVtuber Год назад
Choppers are like lowriders or kustoms…rolling art, but not the most practical. Personally I was a fan of guys like Indian Larry, Billy Lane, and Jesse James as a kid, they’re why I love fabricating and making stuff on my own. Also the front end modification was for the hills in San Francisco, which is where they were originally called ‘Frisco Style’ I still want to build one, but I probably won’t ride it more than to and from a show or two. Riding a raked out pedal trike was one of the most uncontrollable rides I had ever experienced. Also everyone hates OCC.
@mikedominick
@mikedominick Год назад
I remember a cool show called “Cafe Racer” that was part of Cafe Racer Magazine.
@schneir5
@schneir5 11 месяцев назад
I'm just glad that I'm not the only one who thinks of "Pulp Fiction" and "Easy Rider" when I think of choppers lol
@Journey-of-1000-Miles
@Journey-of-1000-Miles Год назад
I’ve never thought of them as practical. they are a piece of mobile artwork. Kind of like a low rider.
@mustangracer5124
@mustangracer5124 Год назад
1st hells angels clubhouse was at the corner of my street when I was a kid.. They had old shovel heads with suicide clutches and ape hanger bars.. they 'chopped' the old cop bikes ,, hence , the name chopper.
@luddite6239
@luddite6239 Год назад
Interesting. And note that Ariel uses an Öhlins equipped springer front end on their Ace to good effect.
@alphaforce6998
@alphaforce6998 Год назад
Surely an asset when you track that chopper and make your 25 mile radius turns.
@timwagster9458
@timwagster9458 Год назад
Awesome idea, get a few and take them to the track.😂🤣
@charlesbynum
@charlesbynum Год назад
I rode a chopper once. The only reason to ride a chopper more than once is so that you can be seen riding it. Yeah, they're great straight-line but don't ask them to stop or turn. Seriously, people actually pay money for these contrivances? What a bunch of posers. Thanks, Peter.
@ElectronicYouth
@ElectronicYouth Год назад
You have to built your own chopper to get it.
@dominickpetitt3265
@dominickpetitt3265 Год назад
ITs funny that you just do this video and I am building a chopper right now in my garage for my wifes first bike. We are using a 1982 KZ440 as our starting point and going with a hardtail and airbags under the seat from tcbros
@JGreen-le8xx
@JGreen-le8xx Год назад
Kawasaki 440 was a beautiful little air cooled parallel twin! My best friend had a 440 LTD while I had a Honda CM400T when we were teenagers almost 40 years ago.
@markoilic7475
@markoilic7475 Год назад
I love that song, had me laughing for quite a while, while listening to it on repeat😂😂 Coconut
@themadness5849
@themadness5849 5 месяцев назад
My buddies and I enjoy riding our choppers quite regularly. Not sure why people who’ve obviously never ridden have to talk smack about them. Am I gonna take my chopper on a 1,000 mile ride?? Hell no!! That’s not what they’re designed for. Throw a couple hundred miles on it in a day or so running a poker run is nothing out of the ordinary. Keep hating haters and we’ll keep riding!!!
@dtaylo4517
@dtaylo4517 Год назад
Hey...that image at 2.33 looks a-lot like the springer I made on my channel???😁
@UmmmmmmmWhat
@UmmmmmmmWhat Год назад
Saw a chopper with a triumph speed triple motor, also a few "backwards buell" choppers with the spicier 1200 before they got scarce.
@esk8jaimes
@esk8jaimes Год назад
Could you cover BRAT motorcycles next? (Bobber/Rat Rod motorcycle)
@paulvelez9688
@paulvelez9688 Год назад
Rolling artwork. Not bikes. The 2000’s stretched fat tire choppers were some of the dumbest and unrideable abominations on 2 wheels. The classic choppers at least came from something genuine. The Orange County type garbage were just made to cash in.
@leeroylopez8365
@leeroylopez8365 Год назад
I mean, it doesn't have the best ride but I enjoy my honda fury 😅😅😅 it's got cool factor for sure lol
@jamesdevore3022
@jamesdevore3022 Год назад
They're like the motorcycle version of a ratrod.
@waltermachnicz5490
@waltermachnicz5490 Год назад
Lowest rider are too often bad rides. The more eye candy the more useless and likely to go to pawn shops at fractional value. On the other hand they are dream machines that only have to travel in the mind and are trucked to events. Hence the abundance of low mileage modified motorcycles. Often only capable slow and not far.
@throttledan
@throttledan Год назад
Throwing shade at a Boss Hoss at the end? That bike is basically a chevy smallblock on 2 wheels, and I take comfort that a company will make a bike powered by a chevy smallblock. probably the most understressed motorcycle engine ever.
@pcthayer
@pcthayer Год назад
I liked your video, especially how the choppers influenced the designs of the recent mainstream motorcycles like the Virago and the recent cruisers. (Any bets on how long Honda keeps their Fury in production? Looks so out of place on todays roads now, but Harley has the Breakout which is chopper influenced too but not as extreme and more tasteful than the Fury.)
@Slimjax
@Slimjax Год назад
Can you try and review a benelli leoncino 800 trail?
@kevinsellsit5584
@kevinsellsit5584 Год назад
Love, hate, or simply avoid. That being said, I can appreciate true master craftsmanship even if I fail to understand why it was used on a "motorcycle" that is not intended to be ridden. That is the fun part afterall.
@slothbeezy6432
@slothbeezy6432 Год назад
Get to the choppa!!
@mygreatbigfoot1679
@mygreatbigfoot1679 Год назад
This is a flick and throw it away show, imagine presenting photos to someone like this in person.
@hanselmanryanjames
@hanselmanryanjames Год назад
"Paul Two-A-Tell" lol.
@toddwebb7521
@toddwebb7521 Год назад
I find your lack of the Black Widows from Any Which Way but Loose disturbing.
@michaeldawson4087
@michaeldawson4087 Год назад
You're to young to understand....it was a ' 60's early 70's trend that carried into the 80's with yuppies trying to look cool and fit in and had the money to buy. Choppers were what 1% 'ers rode..60's rebellion stuff, the war counter culture...vets returning home looking for a place to call home fell into mc lifestyles, and custom bikes/choppiers bc they couldn't afford to go shop at an HD dealer and frankly AMF HD wasn't a good time for HD and had poor quality. So they built bikes from the frame up. It was more of a statement of who you were back then that's now bc a statement of money currently..once again its a thing younger people can't or won't understand because they didn't grow up during the times. It's like tuner Hondas vs hotrods/ratrods/muscle cars.
@mjc2ride336
@mjc2ride336 Год назад
Harley Softails never used a monoshock in their rear suspension. Arlen Ness almost never built his choppers out of Sportster engines, even your pictures of him show him on big twins.
@grantodaniel7053
@grantodaniel7053 Год назад
You better fact-check yourself on the Softail rear... 2018 onwards certainly DID have monoshock... look it up on YT.
@mjc2ride336
@mjc2ride336 Год назад
@@grantodaniel7053 The video was about choppers and their history long before 2018
@grantodaniel7053
@grantodaniel7053 Год назад
@@mjc2ride336 Quote, "Harley Softails never used a monoshock in their rear suspension". There weren't any Softails back in the old days mate, so what are you on about??
@SeraphimCramer
@SeraphimCramer Год назад
I've loved the chopper look ever since I saw Ghost Rider as a kid lol
@vinnyreichardt106
@vinnyreichardt106 Год назад
Biker build off was excellent
@nducation8039
@nducation8039 Год назад
Outside of America and other English speaking countries, all cruisers are called choppers, and people have no idea what the difference is.
@BrokenBackMountains
@BrokenBackMountains Год назад
Really? Don't thinks so.
@nducation8039
@nducation8039 Год назад
@@BrokenBackMountains Where are you from?
@BrokenBackMountains
@BrokenBackMountains Год назад
@@nducation8039 Scotland but live in Ireland. I lived in Lithuania for 12 years and speak the language fluently. Bikers there know the difference.
@nducation8039
@nducation8039 Год назад
@@BrokenBackMountains I know the difference too, but sometimes I still call cruisers chopper, cause in my country (Serbia) most people don't know what a cruiser is, because they know it as a chopper. I know that in Poland people do the same.
@BrokenBackMountains
@BrokenBackMountains Год назад
@@nducation8039 Lithuania a čioperis is a bike that has been chopped with a long rake and kruizeriai are your virago type cruisers. They also use the term boberis for bobbers.
@edwardschmitt5710
@edwardschmitt5710 Год назад
I literally cobbled together a Honda 250 Rebel off of eBay parts back in the 2000s. It was fun. The guys at worj who road laughed at it with it's sheepskin seat. Then i showed up on my new Sportster after i realized that light slow thing was terrifying on the Verrazzano Bridge in a high wind
@timkis64
@timkis64 Год назад
choppers are a perfect expression on how to make a bike handle like a overloaded dump truck.
@kelinryan8222
@kelinryan8222 Год назад
I know I'll get backlash for this... but with all the custom built choppers out there, it still makes me laugh to think that when honda made the rune not only did they factory build a chopper that actually worked as a motorcycle (unlike most of the custom stuff), it was also cheap and looked better then alot of the custom stuff. They also almost overnight killed the 2000's chopper craze. Lol
@NBSV1
@NBSV1 Год назад
A big part of the problem was it being a Honda. A lot of “chopper” people are Harley because that’s what their friends ride and what’s popular. And typical Honda people aren’t generally interested in riding a chopper. And, even though it worked really well compared to a lot of choppers it didn’t work as well as a normal cruiser. So, most people are gonna spend the money on the one that rides and works better. Ultimately I think that’s usability is what really killed the chopper phase. Most of the people buying them weren’t “real” chopper people and were just interested in looking cool and showing off. So, once the novelty wore off they got parked in the corner and left to collect dust.
@stonedragon9014
@stonedragon9014 Год назад
Going off topic but I passed my MSF today 🤗
@dingdingdingdiiiiing
@dingdingdingdiiiiing 11 месяцев назад
Suspensionless choppers are just ridiculous. Kind of like daily driver cars with massive wheels and negative camber.
@ninjaswordtothehead
@ninjaswordtothehead Год назад
Hey, my grandpa didn't go blind from moonshine. It was the Sterno.
@S1Z3M
@S1Z3M Год назад
"Form over function is merely decoration." I forget who said that, but it is the definition of almost every vehicle ever.
@06racing
@06racing Год назад
The spider web chopper is still the prettiest chopper out there.
@HunterGargoyle
@HunterGargoyle Год назад
For my everyday rider I have an almost fully fabricated chopper/scrambler cross built to be ridden hard and still be comfortable over multiple terrain be it blacktop or off road but with a Rat-Rod asthetic (think Mad Max) basically a scrapped together frankenstein of missmatched parts and homemade "rust effect" paint got somewhat raked out front end not too raked meant to be practical out on the trails but still got that look and i just like the jockey shifter built off a Harley Knucklehead bolted in a modified to beyond unrecognisable Indian Chief frame
@almostrox7270
@almostrox7270 Год назад
Choppers was what was cool when I was growing up but I’ve always been a Japanese sport bike guy currently riding a Yamaha yzf600r for 4 years and loving life!!!
@fredhartwick8694
@fredhartwick8694 Год назад
I’m surprised no one pointed out that the Harley flathead is called a panhead @1:20 in to the video lol 😂
@kevin_heslip
@kevin_heslip Год назад
We do not do these things because they are easy, we do them because they are hard.
@Andrew-qc8jh
@Andrew-qc8jh Год назад
The chopper at 6:18 is sexy, love the absolute minimalism of it.
@shadowmancy9183
@shadowmancy9183 Год назад
Where would you throw Vicla style at- chopper, or otherwise?
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