Guys you fail to see this is a tv show,and at the end is all about publicity and tv rating so they have to make it exciting for the viewer
Yeah, I get that. A lot of it is staged too.
Guys you fail to see this is a tv show,and at the end is all about publicity and tv rating so they have to make it exciting for the viewer
Go read the nhra rule book and see what hd is allowed to run compaired to any one else and you wont be so impressed![]()
Ever see a hardley in pro street? or at a grudge race? HELL NO! wonder why?
Jr. has been making the same crap for 10 yrs. just adds a nob or hangs a grill on it. Its ugly , fat ,slow , won,t turn. I can,t belive any one likes it.
I think if they do a bike build off again they should have to implement some kind of performance aspect to the competition. I mean Jr had a great looking piece of art on stage but that's all it was. If you can't drive it a couple hundred miles to a bike week etc. Then its not a real bike, I'd wanna see some 1/4 mile times and some dyno slips. Then you'll see some real bikes!!! Not a bunch of unnecessary gimmicks... A lean mean street machine as it should be
Saw the show come on, watched a few min of it, went to on demand and found some rednecks making duck calls. Now that is good tv there. Im a biker I dont need a tv show to tell me whats cool. If I like it it's cool to me.
I disagree. Although JR and his team are not of the same caliber as Jesse James, Arlin Ness, etc., I think Jr does a good job putting together bikes that sell and are somewhat attractive and creative. Jr is a business man, just like his dad. The bikes Jr does aren't intended to perform like production bikes. They are sales tools for him and his clients. He's making some serious dough from the show and his company, must be doing something right.
I agree with sales tools, the people who buy them don,t ride. The guy that came up with the pet rock made money to, but wasn,t good for anything but a joke. Art for arts sake, just hope the gen. public don,t think these are what bikes are all about.
These buildoffs are a joke. It is a popularity contest, not a bike building contest. I first met those OCC guys back before the TV show, when they came to the dealer show with an island display.
Their bikes were crude workmanship. They had their Spiderman theamed bike there, and I arranged to have Larry "Spiderman" McBride, get his leathers out of the Bates display and get his photo taken on that chopper.
As for Jesse. No contest. He is the Boyd Coddington of the custom bike scene. I don't care for his personal life, but the OCC guys could only dream of building bikes that nice.