I can't believe how lame that bike was on the show last night. Good fabrication by rick an Evan, but design by the great Jason Pohl was like a bunt instead of out of the park, an Senior didn't help that, also I don't care how much tech or slugs of aluminum that Quinn can churn out, it isn't going to make a bike look an design by pohl look like a high dollar custom bike.
IMHO you want to talk about a over the top trike GOW is the greatest. Now that looks like a B.A. Trike.
No possible way the customer in a high end Scotch maker could possibly wanted a bike like that. THAT bike had seniors deranged styling marks all over it, from the 70's cragar S/s wheels to the flaming pipes to the flappers an the cheezy retro front-end. Nothing matched, even Christian believed the bike design was lacking from the styling of Jason an Senior.
the high end scotch maker approved that design, personally asked for knobby tires, he was there when jason was drawing the cragers and asked for the flamethrower in the pipes after jason said he was gonna put the cheesy flappers on the pipes during the first rendering. That seat was bad ass, gold leaf chains along the paint job was exactly what that customer asked for and approved.
The wheelie bars were a loss for me but were necessary with that s&s motor. I really thought they could have incorporated an anti rotation device into the hitch he asked for. I think that was the only thing he did not get.
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Why not a harrow on the back or a device since the name of the bike was the PEAT Chopper a device used to extract the peat from the surface of the bog?!?!?
Jason could've BING'D peat harvesting like I just did an look at devices used to harvest the sections of moss.
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But still even Christian,Evan, and Rick believed the bike was lacking.
When they get a six figure order for a trike, they can build what they want and probably not get more business from that multi millionaire customer. Dude didnt order a gears of war cable steered trike for a video game.
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But still even Christian,Evan, and Rick believed the bike was lacking.
When they get a six figure order for a trike, they can build what they want and probably not get more business from that multi millionaire customer. Dude didnt order a gears of war cable steered trike for a video game.
That is mostly because it wasn't a cut an paste, order it out of the parts book, or bodge together with what parts Senior has a overstock or got a good deal on. I mean you are building CUSTOM CHoppers. Senior out to fire his painter for the bike an tins, use RACEWRAP or the dipping process from the Gander Mountian or Money bike, and save from needing a painter to paint Jasons designs on the bikes. Jason could just use a program to print them out an have a trained Monkey cover the tanks. Now that they are making 3D printed objects now why have Quinn or the CNC guys to spend hours cutting out slugs of Metal that most is wasted anyway.
As soon as he asked for Knobby tires you should have realized it wasnt a custom chopper.
So instead of Orange County Chopper it's "Our Crappy Choppers"
Its not their chopper. Its the customers chopper. Build what looks cool whether the customer wants it or not because you know cool better than the guy that signed the check. Really?
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As soon as he asked for Knobby tires you should have realized it wasnt a custom chopper.
So instead of Orange County Chopper it's "Our Crappy Choppers"
Its not their chopper. Its the customers chopper. Build what looks cool whether the customer wants it or not because you know cool better than the guy that signed the check. Really?
That used to be JJ's mantra at West Coast Choppers.
"Place the order and let me build the chopper I THINK is best for you.... If you don't like the frame or the paint job?... F*** You! I'm not putting my name on what you think looks cool. I'm putting my name on my design work."
It worked OK for him at the time.
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That used to be JJ's mantra at West Coast Choppers.
"Place the order and let me build the chopper I THINK is best for you.... If you don't like the frame or the paint job?... F*** You! I'm not putting my name on what you think looks cool. I'm putting my name on my design work."
It worked OK for him at the time.
Right, and who likes JJ? Who agrees with JJ? All senior is saying is this is approved, this is what we build. When a customer wants a dragon, a scottish terrier, and saddlebags with kilt material on them and gives them a nice fat check like 140k you build what they approve so you dont take any **** from them. Next customer comes in and says they want a trike but not like that last one that looked stupid, you tell build what they want.
The exhaust that evan keeps wanting to change is basic design, shotgun exiting the right side, he wants to wrap to the left for some reason.
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The exhaust that evan keeps wanting to change is basic design, shotgun exiting the right side, he wants to wrap to the left for some reason.
I assume you're talking about the previous "Fill-A-Need" bike build. Not the trike.
I think the reason Evan wanted to build a double side exhaust was to fill a very unsightly empty void behind the engine, below the seat where the oil tank usually resides.
For some reason, Jason decided to move the oil tank somewhere else on that build.
-- Edited by Izzy Ryder on Friday 20th of December 2013 05:30:06 PM
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The exhaust that evan keeps wanting to change is basic design, shotgun exiting the right side, he wants to wrap to the left for some reason.
I assume you're talking about the previous "Fill-A-Need" bike build. Not the trike.
I think the reason Evan wanted to build a double side exhaust was to fill a very unsightly empty void behind the engine, below the seat where the oil tank usually resides.
For some reason, Jason decided to move the oil tank somewhere else on that build.
-- Edited by Izzy Ryder on Friday 20th of December 2013 05:30:06 PM
No, he ended up using his yellow tube to run the exhaust around and thru the void to the left side on the trike too. Seems he loves split tanks and wrapping exhaust.
What did those wheels represent on this fill a need bike? Was it the hand holding they missed with the pinstripes or do you remember it being something else? I thought a huge puzzle piece would have worked better for the theme.
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