American chopper competition

[Crafter]

Have you ever dreamed of getting your kicks on Route 66? Well, Discovery Channel is giving you the chance to win a fabulous American Chopper style holiday to the US.

If you watched the first series of American Chopper, you will know that the boys have amazing creative and technical flair for customising bikes on demand. All you need to do is send us a picture or video clip of your customised wheels, be it a proper chopper, a sixties scooter or BMX Mongoose.

Include a description of how you have customised your wheels (100 words max) and you could be burning rubber on either a Harley or car along Route 66. Entries will be judged on build specification, creative flair and imagination. So what are you waiting for?

Five runners up will receive the American Chopper Series 1 DVD box set.

Completed entries should be mailed to PO Box 4996, London, W1A 5YR or emailed to route_66@discovery-europe.com before 18th October, including full name, address, email address and day time telephone.

[Choprocker]

Well if you do get pics off pepes at least the will be built and made by us, i would hope?
Instead of the orange lot who seem to get others to build there stuff and just use the hardley catalogue for the parts they Bolt on to there bikes.
Only thing i can give them praise for is they can design a nice bike and has quite good artistic flare.

[Blackjack]

Well if you do get pics off pepes at least the will be built and made by us, i would hope?
Instead of the orange lot who seem to get others to build there stuff and just use the hardley catalogue for the parts they Bolt on to there bikes.
Only thing i can give them praise for is they can design a nice bike and has quite good artistic flare.

You, sir, have no taste and can't spell "flair". Nor, apparently, can you recognise it.

[Choprocker]

OOO, I am so sorry sir, shall i go to the corner? FFS
the whole point is that every has different tastes, my fave of the orange county lot was the Commanche bike, i am sure others will have different favourites if you like any at all.
Now did i spell all the words correctly this time? If not oo gives a bollox?

[Blackjack]

Perhaps the point is that they actually build identical bikes that are decorated differently. Take a good look, the profiles of all their theme bikes are identical.

As for artistic flair, Paulie Jnr. can't draw to save his life and anything even slightly difficult they farm out.

About on a par with window dressers in a department store, but not bike builders.

[Nitrowing]

Perhaps the point is that they actually build identical bikes that are decorated differently. Take a good look, the profiles of all their theme bikes are identical.

As for artistic flair, Paulie Jnr. can't draw to save his life and anything even slightly difficult they farm out.

About on a par with window dressers in a department store, but not bike builders.
Got to agree - frames,engines, carbs, wheels, tanks, seats are all bought in and the bike is assembled at OCC. They do make their own handlebars though :eek:
Biker Build Off shows some real talent :D

[dracken1]

it is a question of taste i guess,american taste that is,they love chrome,glitz and big,
makes me laugh when they talk about a stripped down lean chopper, with a big revtech engine in it.
then proceed to put huge lumps of metal on it,5" belt drives, brackets that would have been fine at 3mm thick are 8mm thick, a seat mounting bracket on one bike was a good 100 x 8mm plate.
i wonder how much of the advantage a revtech engine gives you in the power to weight ratio is lost by the sheer weight of those bikes.
and then in the old school panhead chop build they are pushing a trolley around a bike parts supermarket.
personally i perferred some of the other bikes in the workshop.

and i don't even want to think about them drilling and grinding freshly chromed pieces. and welding 3" away from a highly polished engine with nothing to protect it ...
shudder.....................