When it comes to Orange County Choppers corporate theme bikes, with most motorcycle enthusiasts, there is no middle ground . . . You either like them or hate them!
Personally oh, I think most will agree that the OCC team was pretty creative not only with their bikes but in carving out a corporate niche four theme by creation.
The fact that Junior kicked Senior’s butt in the Junior vs. Senior contests tells you who had more talent. The fact that Junior then build his business without all the money mismanagement of OCC, tells you who is the better businessman.
While all choppers are highly customized bikes, sometimes even being built from scratch using all custom parts, not all customized bikes are choppers. In Europe at roughly the same era that choppers were invented and popularized in the USA, bikers modified their bikes (primarily English brands like Triumph, BSA, Norton and Matchless) in a different way, to achieve different looks, performance goals and riding position. The resulting bikes are known as café racers, and look very different from a chopper.
As the popularity of choppers grew, in part through exposure in movies such as the 1969 classic Easy Rider, several motorcycle brands took note and began to include chopper influenced styling in their factory offerings. None of the factories were willing to go all out and do things like abandon rear-suspension to achieve the classic chopper look, however. As a result, these bikes were given the name “factory customs” and are not considered choppers.
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