Choppers - Riders vs Showboats - Harley Forum

JayDee · #1 09-06-2008, 09:10 PM

I am ok with choppers that guys build to ride in their own stule but I have a real problem with some wannabe who buys or pays some big buck wrench large green to create an image enhancer for him.

These high dollar trailer queens with almost no miles on them are just dumb. Why don't they just spend their money on Viagara and on-line porn and leave us alone.

I've seen some great choppers that guys made themself for a few grand that I would be proud of.

chipster · #2 09-08-2008, 11:28 AM

SteelRider - You are correct about the image thing.

My wife and I were down in New Orleans back in April. Went to eat at the Acme Oyster House (great food, by the way) and some some younger guy sittin' on a beautiful looking stretched out chopper out front, talking with some other guys on bikes. Man that thing had more bling than a wannabe rapper. Come out after eating and having a few Blue Moons, and the dude is still there just hanging out.

Go by there a couple days later, bike in the same spot. Wonder if this guy even rode the thing at all.

texan321 · #3 09-08-2008, 04:56 PM

they are trying to make up for their small ...(insert your own word here)....

chipster · #4 09-09-2008, 10:56 AM

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Originally Posted by SteelRider

Believe it or not...I think I have met the guy you are talking about. I see him there all the time too. I think I have finally put the pieces together and deduced that he is "seeing" the chick that tends bar in the daiquiri shop at the corner of Bourbon and Iberville...just down from Acme. Small world ain't it?

I do hope that you ordered some of the Acme Bread Puddin? Some of the best in town.

Steel - I know the daiquiri shop that you're speaking of, but no I unfortunately did not have the Acme Bread Puddin'. I will have to have it next time I'm down there, which probably won't be too long. My wife loves it down there. She has spent more time down there than I have, and has a friend that used to live in Metairie. We also have a family friend that lives in Franklinton.

unclepsycho · #5 01-18-2009, 05:01 PM

Hi there,
I got a nice BMC chopper and when people ask how many miles on it...I get to say "Over 20k in the first 16 months" Bikes are made to ride. A lot of bikes for sale in our area that are similar to mine are in the 4k to 5k miles......what a waste of a good bike. Oh, after 16 months... it dont get rode as much, I got an '06 Ultra Classic which now has oveer 30k on it.

Hammerhead Pat · #6 01-19-2009, 02:50 PM

Here in Tampa is the "alleged" largest Big Dog dealership in the country. These prices were in paper yesterday,

New 2008 K-9 $23,988
New 2008 Ridgeback $21,988
New 2007 Pitbull $19,925
New 2007 Chopper $20,988 They've been steadily coming down for quite a while.

unclepsycho · #7 01-19-2009, 03:07 PM

I was readin' another forum on another site. According to thier description of a 'chopper' my BMC is in the "Factory Custom" catagory not a real Chopper. so therefore, I have set myself on the journey of building my own real chopper.
It dont change the fact that I ride the heck outta my 'factory custom'. when i bought the bmc, it was sunny out and i didnt feel like building, i was ready to go riding. so now, I have the bmc and the Ultra to ride in between building. First, I gotta get the donor bike. I will take pictures of it as It comes along. I am cutting up and building a honda for a friend but what I really want is something a little older, like a shovel, maybe a pan.

MR.MF · #8 02-14-2009, 10:00 AM

This is America guy's&gal's some have and some have not, I didn't have much when i was younger every bike I got was a used or broken/wrecked, heap when i got them I allways had to work on them and these were also my main form of transportation,(other forms were feet powered ,skateboard, bicycle, or walking) so for me and I bet many others, I dreamed of the day I could buy a brand new bike and waited paitiently many years, while making due on or with what I could afford,16 bikes, 4 kids, divorce, work, the list goes on, I got my dream to come true I, after many years of drooling at dealerships of every type, I bought a brand new Harley, and some of the riders out there look at me and see/say/think, that I am just some kind of wana be biker @%#@$* YOU, you better come talk about it face to face with that guy first see what he's about then go away and judge quietly to yourself what you think of others!! or come find me and we can talk !

unclepsycho · #9 02-14-2009, 12:04 PM

Wow, I thunk you were talking about my past there for a minute, but we only got 2 kids. but the rest is real close to what I have done, and I bet a lot of us on the forum past read similar too; starting with little to nothing.

I almost forgot about one of my first bikes.... a $5 frame and a go-kart motor. the go-kart motor was a suzuki 90. the frame was a honda 100. I put the suzuki motor in the honda frame in 10th grade shop class..... teacher loved it. I dont think I rode it very far... had no brakes, then mom found it and I had to get rid of it.

then of course I moved out at 17 and the rest is history....

MR.MF · #10 02-14-2009, 02:09 PM

Life's awesome aint it ,were moving forward with our feet dragging the whole way!