Why you Should NEVER RIDE an Orange County Chopper
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The plumber bike.
You are so lucky to have so many smart folks, keeping your investment from being a death trap…
i bet when they were all in ace hardware they just agreed to buy one of each thread pitch because in the cut scene they were just all looking at each other like " which one do we get " lmao
That camera it's new to me! That looks like a interesting alternative to Disney's GoPro.💯
In matters to that beautiful flourescent chopper, I would keep the frame, weld a support for a springed seat on it, swap the lame unfinished supercharged engine (sell it) for a smaller reliable one - along with its respective acessories, a decent fuel tank, etc.
- Otherwise: sell it to the other gentleman in the 1st episode! The one who worked on it and wants to buy it from you.
GET YOU MONEY BACK! 😉
You should now buy a Paul Jr. Designs bike, this would be a great review.
Jesse James said that OCC bikes were just for looks and trailer queens. Well, he was 100% correct.
He was absolutely correct when he said that on stage on the bike built of against sr and jr
Junk
How is it that he is able to ride this good looking POS on the roads with out a license plate or a headlight? I understand the hand signals are legal in some states.
@@coyboybc huh?
@@327JohnnySS good looking? No way.
It was cool to see the exhaust pipes slowly get more and more blue as the video progressed. Goes to show the bike was truly never ridden for more than a few minutes.
😂...my thoughts exactly
or lean@@Mikegastaldo
the bike was never ride more than 15 minutes before !!!!bravo Orange County Chopper !!!🤣👏👏 it sux !!TV shows ........
@@kawanbat7143 yep next let me tell you about Bear Grylls >
Good call👀
Sell it to the dude who offered $15K and never look back while using your huge new remote control catamaran.
Not securing the rear wheel on the dynamometer can cause a serious accident.
Even after the first mistake, you continued without doing it. There is also a risk of lateral displacement.
With the motorcycle’s inertia, it could end up in a serious accident within that small, crowded room.
Yeah it's kind of crazy they didn't even consider the shocks depressing when they got on it. They just kept going LOL That Could Have Ended bad. Luckily it did not
Amateurs, that's why .....
Im putting the guy running the dyno to be in charge of this stuff if it were just me i would be content with holding the front brake lol
@@BikesandBeards What front brake?
I worked for Snap On Tool when OCC built the Snap On bike. Discovery charged Snap On over a million to build the bike. In addition, Snap On was required to pay to use the bike at trade shows for 2 years. Snap On management ended up having Alen Ness build a nicer bike for under $100k. We had several trade shows where both were on display together. The Ness bike had much better fit finish and quality.
I'm surprised Snap On is still in business with poor decisions like that. What a complete waste of money. I bet you can count on one hand how tool sets they sold from the marketing campaign.
@@spartanx169x They're in business because a whole lot of mechanics swear by their business model of charging big money to bring you hand tools on a truck.
Well, if snap on built a bike it would be around a million I would imagine.
The Snap On Bike was in Cambridge Ontario at Canadian Tire for a weekend a bunch of years ago. For a bike that was never really ridden it sure looked beat up...
Considering how Snap-On rolls business wise, that's fair play! 😂
Gets you from point A.... to point A
Best quote ever.
But the quote that had me laughing was the insurance quote from Geico!!!
🤣🤣🤣
😅😅😅
@@stclairstclair Yeah, $1,750 a year for insuring a bike you might actually get to ride 50 miles in a year. OCC choppers are beautiful as yard art but nothing anyone could ever consciously buy to ride. It hurts my heart a little to imagine all of the poor suckers who bought these pretty boat anchors thinking they could ride them for any length of time. And that insurance quote was a good dose of reality as well. Motorcycle insurance for someone his age should be way cheaper, that's like $150/month. Probably still less expensive than the monthly repair/maintenance bill for that heap.
60% of the time, works every time. Mouhahahahah
It’s so awesome too see the old timers getting hyped it just shows how much love they have for their careers I hope to find that someday
Feels a bit like one of those episodes on youtube where someone buys an ex pimp my ride car, and discoveres how crappy it actually is 😅
3:45 "So in classic Orange County Chopper fashion, we pushed the bike to it's next destination."
This had me laughing.
Oh yes every episode on Discovery Channel after Tutus bad temper.
bwa-hahahahahahahaha!
To me it's so typical reality TV that orange county choppers looked good but ran like sheet😅😅😅made 4 TV😂😂😂seriously🎉🎉🎉
*its
Learn to spell.
More than once, Senior went wobbling down the street on one of those widow makers and came back and said: “ this thing really handles.”😂
They edited out: 'Badly'.
@@ATEC101 of course they did. why wouldnt they? xD
Honestly I would think if ANY of their creations handled well it would be the makings of a miracle.
😂😂
it is a fancy looking pos
This is a great story, well presented with top people involved from start to finish. Thank you for sharing.
So rad you got it going. What a legend 👏🏼
Still can’t believe you didn’t have your shop neighbor who knows the bike better than anyone help get it all sorted.
yeah thats stupid move. "nahhh i dont want the guy who built it to work on it to actually fix it".
He probably wants a stupid amount of money to work on it
@@helium5912 What are the chances the dude that built the bike is literally a 20 second walk from their shop? How lucky they were. Instead they had guys working on the bike who didn’t have a clue and they kept screwing it up more and more. I kept watching to see when they were going to have him come look at it and it never happed. I can’t believe it. Smh. 🤦🏻♂️
@@AlexRides808more than he’s paying the dealership to work on it? Doubtful lol
It didn't fit the script. His neighbor takes pride in his work and definitely would have got this thing running right. Not to consult him and take it to Harley was weak. Now this bike has a black cloud over it.
The problem with occ and all the other auto building shows, is that over time the 1 thing they all had in common was building with insane time constraints. 2 months, 2 weeks, 1 week, 3 days to get a complete thing made.
OCC, Biker Buildoff, Boyd Cottington, Chip Foose, fast n loud..... All ended up trying to make 1 off cars in ridiculous time frame, and all these shows ended up being a race against time instead of building.
end of every episode... this needs to be done tomorrow...
100k build needs to be done in a week...
It's the same issue with latter seasons of Mythbuster's. The producers got involved too much and dramatized it. Early Mythbusters was way better, I couldn't stand all the fake charisma. Shows like OCC were even worse with the drama and fakery. Just give me a show documenting a real bike shop without setups and personality drama.
I would never allow anyone to build anything for me that insists on those insane time restraints.
Even though Boyd was not the best person around, I'm pretty sure all his cars were drivable, even though they might not be street legal. Same with the stuff done by Foose.
Comparing OCC to Boyd or Chip is ridiculous 😂 Both have built many cars that worked well and were works of art. Just not for a tv show
Awesome couple of vids. Well done. Appreciate all your efforts and monies involved.
So glad to see you wearing gear. "Dress for the slide, not the ride"
"In typical Orange County Chopper fashion we pushed it to its next destination" 😅😅😅 Almost spit my beer out lol
Also; "Verdict? -Best bike I ever owned, most reliable." -It get's you from point A... point A. (No mention of point B) 😅
I don’t always agree with Jessie James’ arrogance, but he nailed it when he called the Tootholes “Cake Decorators”. 🤣
That comment has stood the test of time. Agree.
You do realize that the majority of the bikes made on the show, were literally NOT made to be ridden. They were made to be interesting art. This is nothing new. For the better part of 5 decades there have been people making Choppers that were meant to be looked at, not ridden. As a very young man, I used to look at some of the bikes on the covers of magazines like Chopper, and said, "that's ridiculous."
But the show served as a vehicle for company exposure. For weeks, people would tune in and hear the company's name over and over and over. Then the company gets to put the chopper in their lobby as a conversation piece. I saw the bike made for Bill Murray, down here in Florida. It was fun to look at, especially because I had seen the show. I also saw several of their "show bikes" down here in Daytona when they brought them down. Fun to look at.
It should be noted that the vast majority of Orange County Choppers were NOT like this chopper in the video. They were what they called "production bikes." Those WERE meant to be ridden. I cannot speak authoritatively about them because I have never ridden them, but I have seen people who did own them, and they all enjoyed riding them.
I think what's lost on people is that OCC was just a custom production chopper business. One of those channels was looking for reality tv content for shows. So they contacted OCC. Paul Jr has an artistic talent, so the channel wanted him to make art. The world came to know them for Paul Jr's art. But that's a tiny fraction of the motorcycles they built. Thus, I would classify the title of this video as clickbait. If he were being honest, he would have said an OCC Show Bike. Every problem he has with this motorcycle is because it was meant to be art, not a daily rider. But his title lumps this bike in with all of their daily riders.
@@leroyrussell8766Makes zero sense to me to build bikes with the purpose not to be driven. Build furniture then
@@user-rr7bv6my4e As somebody who has made custom furniture, some of it is meant to be more functional and less art, while some is meant to be less functional and more art.
Now correct me if I'm wrong, but Jesse James did Monster garage. Those vehicles were Not meant to be daily drivers..
For Geico, that bike served its purpose. A tax write off for a promotional activity. And it gave them something to look interesting in their lobby. It might simply help to understand that it was never created for somebody like you or me to ride everyday.
It's like looking at a Top Fuel dragster and saying, I don't see the point of a car I can't drive to work everyday. See my point?
@@leroyrussell8766 The whole show was build around building custom motorcycles. Motorcycles are fun and attractive because you can drive them. Without that core element it's just art,you just can as well take the wheels and engine of, build a table.
As a guitarist, I have two guitars that we call wall hangers, they look lovely, but are unplayable....Seems OCC bikes are the equivalent to this, they look the dogs bollocks, but are 100% not roadworthy..
Now i gotta ask: what guitars are those?
@@MarmaladeMakitwo Gibsons
Les Pauls for sure. I fight mine daily
@@Ian-lm5ep
LOL that's funny as I keep considering getting a les paul but I'm incredibly, it's quite a skill actually, INCREDIBLY good at knocking guitars over. Even in stands. I've a wooden floor where I keep my guitars which is not helpful.
I've managed to break the headstock on others more than once, and while I love Les Pauls I'm scared to get a real one as they are notorious for snapping necks when knocked over. So I think if I got one I'd scared to actually use it, it'd tend to hang on the wall.
My telecaster is fantastic, its headstock seems designed for clumsy oafs, it's got basically a 0 degree back angle.
I'll get a les paul "style" I think, cheaper .. and one that looks like it can take a toppling. Les Paul body with telecaster headstock is the dream, why is this not made!
@@Ian-lm5ep How's your truss rod set up?
Dude, I got to hand it to you. I was very impressed with your calm demeanor as you progressed through the bike, discovering more and more wrong. You handled it like a champ... I wish I had your patience,. I'm a pretty cool guy but I have to tip my hat to you. I don't think I would have been so understanding. I must say, I hope you have no more surprises in store and you enjoy your new bike immensely. Lord knows, you earn it! Thank you for the video. I had never seen a bike engine torn down before. Take care, Ron.
There are always more surprises in store when you have an OCC bike
Sell it to your neighbour (from part 1) who built it so he can finish the bike properly and ride it.
He told him he'd give him 15 grand for it when he only paid $10 less whatever all these diagnostics and repairs have cost him anyway
@@dosmastrify
Seems these guys are just messingbaround
Dramatics
@@dosmastrifyHe did say "right now", that's before any work or expenses were incurred for repairs and diagnostics
You can’t polish this turd……. best bike builder in the world can’t make this right
riding position looks like you wouldn't want to be on it longer than 2 minutes anyway
my thoughts pal
only looking at it made me want to call my physio.
Dude this video was awesome! I love how you do your ads! Just simple and straight forward. Not pushy but helpful! Great stuff man! That bike is insane! !!! You got massive cohonas bro!!! Grande Jeuvos!!!
This is fascinating! Thank you!
I love how much the guy with the long braids is smiling. Like he's a kid again. As much as you say "don't buy", it feels like everybody loves this bike.
They love it from an engineering project or art standpoint, like the Mona Lisa comment from the braids guy.
You love it when someone else owns it, like a boat.
Thats a sign of laughing how shitty this bike performes compared to the hipe... thats what I read in their faces. its unbelieve.
So they basically LIED when they said it was 300hp. lol
*literally
Jesse James said it best "Those OCC Guys Are Nothing But Cake Decorators" · FACTS..
The article lied :) It never encapsulated "300hp" in quotation marks like I just did, i.e, to be interpreted as if those who built it said that.
Sorry, but OCC is clear on this one.
Seriously, who would actually believe it made 300hp. The jokes on those who actually did.
Dude almost every Harley knew this didn't have 300hp without a turbo 😅😅.. I was like yeah ok yeah right 😅
When you talked about everything being "inverted" or not where they're supposed to be got me thinkin about old times. My dad and his 2 brothers used to restore old motorcycles, and we live in Norway so right hand drive. When my uncle got hold of an old BSA from the UK, my dad was due to a test drive. 500cc kickstart and brakes/clutch reversed. He was in for a surprise :p Stalled it once, got his knee almost dislocated bcause of the compression, but it started and ran well :)
Been watching for two days straight I'm hooked and I'm into bikes now? Lol thanks definitely subscribed
Calling Geico to try to insure this bike was seriously the classic topping on the cake. LMAO. Only thing that could have been better was calling Paul Sr. trying to get some warranty work done. LoL>
Prob. screwed up her numbers for the day, hope she didn't get in trouble.
Final verdict, that bike likes riding a trailer more than it likes being ridden!
Thanks for the laugh 🤣. When I saw the actual dyno number compared to all the claims gave me a chuckle.
@16:50 if you watch the American Chopper episode featuring the build of this bike (S11, E2), you’ll know why the motor mounts were messed up. The engine and supercharger didn’t line up properly and their solution was to redrill the motor mount holes by hand to shift the engine over. I’ve visited the OCC headquarters that used to be in Newburgh, NY three different times when I was working in that area, and I was stunned at how bad some of the welds looked on those bikes when you get to look at them up close and peek into the nooks and crannies (as well as upward from the bottom)… those angles that the TV cameras never saw. I wouldn’t be caught on one out on the road.
They pretty much welded crap over already built frame parts and things done by other people.
Great eye! Great catch. I could not enjoy the show because of the shouting and fighting. I honor and respect my Father ( as well as my mother) but the father and son fights put me off to that show.
@@Taino871 In many episodes, they'd just need a tank and grab one that was already made and just put the necessary holes for fuel and the filler cap. If they didn't go for those cuckoo designs, he would most likely pull entire frames already welded and so on. Then you compare that with Boyd's show, where a lot of stuff from panels to wheels were manufactured in-house and they showed it being done on camera.
I was racing in Wallkill NY at Walden A Motocross track and my dad wanted to stop by OCC, they were closed so bummed we didn't stop there though, this was 2003, Miss ya dad,
😅 too much hate😂
They made theme bikes for businesses but they also made production bikes for customers. Customer bikes started at about 80 grand. I had a former co-worker who was a huge fan of their show and spent $80k buying his "dream" OCC bike as a retirement gift to himself. I spoke to him some time ago and he said it was absolute crap. Stock frames and Harley engines, maybe the handlebars and fenders were fabricated in house, the rest was cheap Chinese parts. Parts broke off, it misfired within months, and no warranty work was honored and customer service was non-existent. He said he took a bath, lost $80k on what was essentially a shiny $2500 bike.
Oof. They say "never meet your heroes".... Well, you could extend that to "never buy your dream custom chopper" lol
That's a great buisness model take a crappy $2500 "cheap custom" and sell for $80,000 to people that like SHINY things lol $77500 PROFIT
The show was an infomercial
That's a damn shame
I know someone who bought a Big Dog for something like $50,000. It was a hundred times the bike an OCC is. He kept it for 2 years, put something like 1500 miles on it, and was hard pressed to sell it for $8000. The entire custom chopper fad was total bullshit. Only an idiot would buy any of them new.
What these guys need is an Allen Millyard!
All the builders with all the equipment to build a 140 bhp POS that doesn't want to start, and when it does start it runs like a bag of bolts.
Millyard builds a bike in his car sized garage, on his own, with basic tools, that has a Viper V10 running 500 bhp, starts on the button, and he can, and does, ride it for hundreds of miles without a problem.
Anyone that considers themself to be a motorcycle enthusiast should look up Allen Millyard, and see what incredible pieces of engineering he does.
You are so correct. This man is a motorcycle John Browning.
Millyard would scrap it and build something decent with the parts.
Yeh, OCC was all the gear with no idea. Millyard actually knows how to build a bike right.
Millyard hates Harley’s
While watching the show when it was on, I did wonder why companies needed those things. There was even an "I, Robot" movie bike! Thanks for the explanation as to why OCC bikes exist.
The ponytails guy is a saint
A couple of the older guys in the dyno room without hearing protection…Eh? What was that? 😂😂
Nope, I done enough damage to my hearing that I’m going to protect what’s left.
You can tell from the when we met him on the last video that he loves bikes, this is his lifelong passion for sure. He knows his stuff and takes it all to heart. Dudes a pure soul, an excited teenager in a grown man's body.
I love watching a bunch of people just come together over something they all enjoy.
My good friend got a custom Harley for $35 K . The thing is gorgeous. 15 years later, it still runs like the day he got it. Beautiful Bike.
Sketchy area up around those hotels on Bonny Oaks. Glad you got out of there lol. It's cool to see a well known channel operating so close to me. I work in Chatt. I hope to grow my channel this year. I'm still figuring out what kind of content I want to do. Congratulations on carrying your success down south!
well...I learnt ALOT about the insta ACE camera...thanks bro
Ikr the sponsorship deals are constant. I can’t even justify watching this channel anymore. It’s one huge walking bill board!
@@chrisjenkins203I got ya, but style pays more. Fortnine is successful and is all style.
@@chrisjenkins203 Between that and the bible verses. I came to watch a video about bikes. I don't need preached at.
@@chrisjenkins203and how he blurred out a friggen gauge because they didn’t pay him for advertising it lol.
Yep. I used to find the channel every once and a while and between the Bible and the not subtle ads? I’m out.
Shaun, your description of OCC's mission was spot on. Senior's brilliance was in the packaging, not the product. And the outcome? About what you'd expect.
He was really good at yelling at his son also
I found it funny that when they made a bike for the younger employee (I wanna say Cody) it was a much smaller and lighter bike and seemed like the one practical bike I've seen them build. Although I don't know if the stick shift is very sensible. But idk much about motorcycles and I didn't watch it that much, so I might have some details mixed up.
All that boost and special fuel and it basically makes the same power as a Japanese straight 4.
Like a super yacht, it's not for going on the ocean. It's for sitting in the harbour and hosting parties.
Gets you from point A to point A 😂
Love Dave.
the full race suit with cowboy boots had me in stitches 🤣
I got to see a couple of the OCC bikes when they came to my trade school. They had tons of weld splatter that was painted over and a bunch of other things that showed how little they actually cared about the quality of the finished product. As long as it looked good enough from 10 feet away, they didn't seem to bother them.
Orange County Dung
@@RUclipsDepressesMeOCD? Definitely not.
Now that you say that, I noticed not ever once they showed any close ups to where you can see any welds or anything like that when they were on air
Cosplayers have the 5 foot rule. Can't see the hot glue and duct tape holding it together. 🤣
Yep, nice from afar, but far from nice🤷🏼♂️
Heat is a huge issue on these bigger engines. I’ve got a 96 FLDWG that I put a 118cid engine bored over and with a stage 3 kit that gets so hot it’s almost uncomfortable to ride. I’m a shorter guy (5’10”) and when I put my leg down the head almost touches my leg and it’s extremely hot. It was a lot of fun to build and is super comfortable while going down the road but not a lot of fun to ride around town on. I finally sold it and am now looking for a SLIGHTLY overbuilt Road King.
PS- the guy is right about the oil fill level. I had to run mine at the minimum oil level and keep a close eye on it to keep the oil cap on. It also would blow it off if the relief valves (even 1 of them) pop up while cranking. The compression on these engines is unbelievable. I also had to look for places that sold high octane 0% ethanol fuel, it just wouldn’t run on anything lesser grade.
Used to have a Kawasaki Nighthawk back in the late 90s , took it to the shop to have it serviced. Drove it off the lot and 3 blocks later wrecked trying to stop. They had over filled the oil and yes it coated the back tired and down i went. The shop fired the tech who over filled it & fixed it all for free and made it right. The point is as you said oil and 2 wheels dont mix .
I just gotta laugh at the irony: An insurance company that advertises motorcycle insurance, and promotes motorcycle safety would put its name on a certified two wheeled death trap. Choppers in general, are not safe (or comfortable) machines, but THIS...
They paid for it before OCC built it. Ironic, but not their fault.
This bike was clearly intended only as a show bike to use as part of an advertising campaign so they didn't put the same effort into making sure it was safe to ride any distance or length of time as they would expect of the usual kinds of bikes they insure.
It looks like a nightmare. A Death bike.☠️🤙👋
Ok, I just laughed at the very unexpected interjection at 18:42
"lined with Kevlar, the only protection I'll ever need".. "YEAH, WE KNOW!! YOU HAVE 4 KIDS!"
I think he said "full kit"
yea its springtime, when people race supersports on street in shirts n slippers
Did I see a Suzuki GT750 3 cilinder on the left at the end? 2 stroke waterbuffel. In that showroom. I had a GT750. Loved it.
I can hear SR. Now saying this is a phenomenal bike!! Handles like a dream with unlimited power !
It's the same as the MTV show Pimp My Ride with West Coast Customs back then, where the cars were only pimped for show purposes and only had to last for the episode. The rust wasn't even removed, it was just covered over with kilos of filler, Show cars that have never been used in real life. There were also nasty sayings like "It only needs to last until the camera is turned off"
To build a car or motorcycle that runs and not just for show should at least take a couple of years if not more depending on what you want it to look like and run like
@@user-bq8ou4zk9s How the hell should it take a custom shop a couple of years to build a motorcycle or even a car? That's absolutely ridiculous.
A meticulous shop with plenty of skilled staff should be able to complete a quality build in a few months if all the parts are available.
Pimp my ride was even worse because they wern't building new cars for celebs. They took what was alot of the families only vehicle and turned it into a hunk of junk.
Tavarish has the pink van from the show. In his first video about the van he stated that PMR bought a very similar van (in better condition) and modded that one. The original car was very probably sent to the junkyard after being ripped apart.
there was an episode of top gear and Clarkson once noted that something that is considered an 'art' piece doesn't necessarily have to have any usefulness other then existing as art. so i guess in this case, you are right that this is simply a show/art piece rather then a normal bike
It’s sad really how obvious this is and people still don’t get it. Watched the show all the time and never really saw them try to claim they were making good handling, practical bikes ect. It was always about just looking as cool as possible
@@pipedown7969Thought they had a line of production bikes that were made for the road. They were not part of the show but sold through their shop. The ones on the show were art pieces.
I’m reading the bit about art and imagining Clarkson’s voice. Lol!
@@pipedown7969 Yeah, I actually loved the show. I was a teenager back then and even I knew these bikes weren't made for riding.
@@pipedown7969Too bad they were never cool either. Just making non-functional bikes that look ridicilous.
I am also switching to Insta360 cameras, my GoPro 10 has been giving me so many issues with over heating or batteries dying extremely fast, so much footage lost... glad I'm not the only one.
That exposed belt is giving me major anxiety.
If it don't actually work, its not art as a motorcycle. Because anybody can glue a engine, wheeles and bars together to "look" like a motorcycle. But the art is making it all come together to function as a motorcycle.
I agree
Beautiful and runs
Ducati 916👍
i wish it did that thing is bad with the supercharger
Exactly. I could bolt together a non working motorbike given the basically unlimited budget they had.
You couldn't make it look good enough for celebrities and businesses to want one. Unless you're by chance also a skilled artist, like those at OCC.
@@albertorivera4745not the best example of a reliable bike 😊, but beautifull and timeless for sure.
I like the fact that you take your time to explain what is happening. Very informative.
That’s a nice dyno. We use a couple of big fans to keep the vehicle cool, and it’s in the middle of the shop. But it’s in the least used of 3 buildings. The only other thing we use that for is storage.
You could sell it for scrap or tear it down and start over. The first thing is (as everyone acknowledges) You need to reduce the compression ratio and make the supercharger carry its weight. Volumetric efficiency.
I'd be interested in knowing what the dyno says with the supercharger taken out of the equation. I don't believe it's making any additional power, but you'll never prove it, one way or the other, until you run without it.
I know nothing about motorcycles but all the videos on this channel are easy to follow along and learn
If you wanted, you could make it slightly more rideable pretty easily.
Longer bars, paired with a new thick actual padded seat.
Just would put you up higher and further back and bring your arms back.
I agree, then stick a BMW R1300 engine in it, remove the supercharger, bolt on a nice screen, maybe add some rear suspension, and finally some heated grips?
If you replaced enough things, finishing it off with a BMW logo, it'll be a pretty good bike.
You might want to safety wire the oil cap while your making adjustments just in case.
I absolutely loved the videos. I was always a huge fan of all all the chopper shows on Discovery channel. I never questioned the quality or dependability of Orange County builds. It's obvious that they only built trailer queens for their shows. If I was you I'd probably use this bike only for show at your business. Display the travel trailer, boat, watch and bike at your business. Seems like you got a great deal for historical value
Not interested in beards or bikes, yet here I am in the middle of the night. And loved it :DDD
He's braver than me. I wouldn't ride that death trap from one parking space to the next one over. It definitely is a work of art though.
Yeah it sure is a piece
Tbh, I would not start this engine. Who knows how well they put this together, I don't want flying parts of 140 HP engine in my face.
@@user-vq6hl5li5m Ya, that blower in your face is scary as hell.
That super charger belt by your arm kills me, ever times i see it i just have images of someones sleeve going into it
Yep absolutely. That bike is a stupid unridable piece of crap. A 125cc scooter would be better.
The good news is, they can often re-attach the arm with modern surgery.
@@AmericanThunder💀
Look at 8:15 def looks like it was about to happen lol
Actually seeing the bike running made me wonder who thought this was a good idea.
I enjoyed the vid about the OCC Bike, however... I'm glad you did the bit on the Insta360 ACE because I"m done with Go Pro's... I have my GP 7 as my fall back camera but really need something better... thanks for including this footage.
I'm not a motorcycle guy at all, but these GEICO bike episodes have been so interesting and entertaining. Well done! You have a new subscriber. Love the bible verses too. God bless you.
Probably more dangerous to drive than a Kawasaki 900 or 500 Widowmaker
Probably? Both of them are great bikes and this yellow thing is a piece of crap.
There was a decent motorcycle video in this camera ad!
I used to watch the Orange County Chopper program.
I only ever thought of the bikes as just art work and nothing else.
But I was always gob smacked at how they got to ride them on the road!
I often wondered if they wete ROAD LEGAL.
I've been riding since I was sixteen and now 70 and still riding.
I'd only sit on one, but never ride one.
As the guy in the video said, "Only used for advertising".
I"m glad I found your channel!!!
How many ads can you cram into one video? It feels like he whips out that camera at least 10 times just to showcase one of its features. This is the first and last video for me.
Dude I was saying the same thing wtf? To continue watching is hard.
Pure garbage
They’re probably paying him $20k usd for this video.
I liked the information 😊
Too funny, hadn’t seen your comment…wrote about the same observations…the forced ads are bad enough but all the plugs throughout the video on top of the ads (10-12 in total) are just getting going beyond painful.
The thing is ..the creators claim they don’t have control…which is BS.
Thank ypu fpr saving all the owners of OCC bikes from accidents
Lol! "You can tell how awesome a bike is by how many 12 point turns you gotta do" 😂😂😂❤❤
Thanks for the verses. It's a breath of fresh air to watch a motorcycle RUclips vid without cursing, etc.
VERY cool BIKE!
I recall in their shop they sold "normal" bikes too, these were pimped up, but not as extreme as the TV show versions. So I am pretty sure they do have "ridable" bikes, just not these super original TV show builds.
This Ace Pro camera ad with a motorcycle in it is pretty rad.
Even their "normal bikes" were garbage. They were thrown together without Locktite and fell apart under normal riding. Nothing fit right and they usually had a foreign made stock Evo clone engine but for a premium price.
I've driven two OCC bikes, one was a custom build for a customer, not a company or corporation. The other was an "off the shelf" bike. Both were absolutely horrible.
"normal" bikes would not generate enough tv rating.
@@peger Did you not watch the video before commenting? I am very clearly responding to his statement about OCC only doing TV bikes and promos.
“The ONLY protection I use”
“Yeah we know you have four kids” 😂 took me out
Oh NOW I get it 😂
Im watching for the first time and had to stop and look for this comment. Wasn't expected that voice out of nowhere and say that Lol.
wow i was floored to see dave. i take my bike to crusty grunt too. best shop ever.
I always liked Mikeys bike the most, but I at least thought they made normal bikes too lol I was under that impression since I watched that show lmao the "protection" joke was OP 😂😂
I feel your pain . I had a very good copy of a bike called "Darla" by Jesse Rooke . It had no rear suspension (hardtail) and the front suspension was backwards with a mountain bike shock. It kicked the builder and 1st owner off and then after I repaired it it did the same to me , knocked me unconscious in the road. The only way you could change the oil filter was to lift the engine up in the frame . I changed the front suspension in an attempt to make it rideable but it lost some of it's cool factor. The guy I sold it to changed it straight back . Some of these choppers are made to be looked at and never ridden
Not all choppers are total failures. A member of my family bought a new Norton & before he took delivery he had it chopped. It came with extended front forks, upturned pipes, a fat Harley rear tire & rim, & topped off with a peanut tank. I don't think it steered too well but the rear suspension was retained & it gave a fairly good ride. Actually it ran pretty well for a chopper. It did have a problem though. Our main highway had just attained freeway status & the distance between service stations was a bit further than the range of that peanut tank.
@@n.mcneil4066 I assume that you mean that it doesn't steer well even for a chopper with raked forks.
I would rate any bike that doesn't steer well as a big failure. You don't have a cage round you when something happens and you can't steer yourself out of trouble.
You have proven what most of the motorcycling community already knew. OCC bikes were eye candy and NO substance at all. And the candy was stale.
This is actually his second OCC bike.
ONLY IF you were not into THAT kind of candy. They SERVED THEIR PURPOSE VERY, VERY, VERY WELL!!!!
tbh, I'd prefer to look at a classic bike like a BMW R60 or some 50s/60s Honda, than this kind of rolling garbage.
My Vietnam vet uncle rode bikes for 40 + years, he bought one of those new trikes and had a blow out. He died a week later from complications from his wreck. Miss him dearly. R.I.P. Bobby
It's nice to see the bluing finally put into that chrome exhaust though. :)
I actually got the Geico bike running and rode it at speed. I lived in Jupiter, Fl. and was a member of an Offshore powerboat race team which stored pur boat along side of the Geico Team. As the story goes I was asked to retrieve the bike from a shop in Jupiter that was neing evicted.I spent the day getting it running. This was 2018.I actually got a police escort to my favorite watering hole,the Square Grouper. I enjoyed the rest of the day with it and brought it to the warehouse of the owner of team Geico. I got chewed out because I actually rode the bike and didn't flatbed it. Also the bile runs on C6 racing fuel and all I could get was 93 octane which blued the pipes.Nrrdless to say that ended my relationship with the team. Cry baby's the lot of them. So I was the true first to ride that beast.😊
So, how was the ride from an OCC perspective? Not a mismanagement perspective...
I ride mine every week.
Yep, that engine is trash
Perfect reason why it's a bad idea to buy something highly modded, unless you know the exact history. Because there are all sorts of people out there that will put pump gas in an engine that requires 110 octane.
Why didnt you just hire a flatbed lmao
“As the story goes” casts some skepticism on the veracity of this claim.
I know nothing about bikes, which is probably why i loved OCC when it was on. That bike certainly looks cool, and it sounds great, just such a shame it doesn't have the power they claimed nor is it reliable etc…
So cool all the boys got the chance to ride an OCC bike. What an experience for everyone even if it’s a “Mona Lisa.” 😜
If you were planning to keep this and actually use it the first thing i would do is either ditch the blower and set it up to run normally aspirated EFI, or install a low comp top end so it can run more boost and be tuned properly on dyno. Otherwise the blower's just a hood ornament eating power and playing havoc with tuning. Another option maybe to gut the blower compressor and run it as a dummy like they've done for film props.
With the horsepower they were reading it might as well have been fake;
It's great to see these mechanics come together fixing the bike. I have so much admiration for you guys. The Harley guy is also cool.
That was the coolest part. The team aspect and love for bikes.
When you hopped on I-75, I immediately knew that on-ramp - I didn't know you were in Chattanooga! Neat!
The bike shop guy reminds me of Arthur from Red Dead Redemption 2.
I love him. He has style, knows what he is doing and that voice and accent sound so good. 😂
I love one off hardtail choppers, used to do my shopping on them with a rucksack. Practical No but what the hell it was a blast. Had rice burners for speed as well.
At first I was jealous when you only paid $10,000 for it. But now I’m good.
No way I'd wrap my body around a supercharger on a "motorcycle" made by TV actors.
As a European biker, I love the twists, turns and bumps.
I used to watch senior and junior fighting for stupid thing.
Never would I have thought that buying (and riding) one of their bikes would be a good idea.
Their bikes are just badly engineered, badly motorized ugly hardtails. Nothing a real biker would dream of, as far as Europe is concerned, at least.
That's why I have to admit you are brave and/or crazy ! ;)
Thx for the vids
Hope the boat and the trailer were worth it
Sorry man, but, every time the bike kacked I had to LAUGH OUT LOUD! 😂😂😂
Used to watch OCC back in the day for the comedy value, and some of the stuff they did where beautiful art pieces, never once did I consider riding one of them on a public road, my 1999 Fireblade was about 130 bhp I think never a single problem and handled like a dream (sold it in 2015 regretted it ever since)
Also, the Honda would STOP really well! I'd like to see a road test comparison; that would be fun!
Just subscribed. Man what a great channel this is. So awesome! Really like the step by step commentary and diagnosis
Settle down sparky
That's crazy with the GoPro issues you've had. I've been using GoPro cameras for many years myself and anytime I had overheat issues nothing got lost. I'm gonna check out that camera you mentioned in this video btw
Crazy how this video popped up for me and Paul Sr. just had a OCC ride yesterday in Florida 😄
bet Harley built the 'cycle he was riding!