Kawasaki Sportsbike Riders Club - Australia - Online Forum

Posted: **Fri Feb 24, 2006 1:46 am**

Been watching American chopper and thought I'd try a quick poll. How many people here have to use a hammer to put their axles in? Every episode I watch involves some serious hammer work when it is time to put the wheels on. My axles glide in like butter and I'm starting to worry I mioght be doing something wrong.

Posted: **Fri Feb 24, 2006 2:24 am**

Nah mate youl be right just have to work out how to integrate the front gate at your place into the forks then dip the whole lot into a vat of chrome. :shock:

Posted: **Fri Feb 24, 2006 2:53 am**

But the front gate at my place is 8 feet high and weighs 2 tonnes. Won't it be a bit small? :lol:

Posted: **Fri Feb 24, 2006 6:01 am**

I miss out on all the great Mods by not having a TV :cry:

Posted: **Fri Feb 24, 2006 10:52 pm**

chameleon wrote:I miss out on all the great Mods by not having a TV

u wanna borrow my front gate??

nah i dont bash crap outta my axl either, but keeping in mind, mine has been in & out more times than mary-kates food has been..maybe the 1st time u shove it in in the factory its a bit tight??

Posted: **Sun Feb 26, 2006 3:39 pm**

Neka79 wrote:
chameleon wrote:I miss out on all the great Mods by not having a TV

u wanna borrow my front gate??

dont know if watching a front gate will substitute for a TV :roll:

Posted: **Sun Feb 26, 2006 4:24 pm**

mrmina wrote:
Neka79 wrote:
chameleon wrote:I miss out on all the great Mods by not having a TV

u wanna borrow my front gate??

dont know if watching a front gate will substitute for a TV

Perhaps? But from my point of view it would be just as interesting :wink:

Posted: **Sun Feb 26, 2006 5:00 pm**

actually since i got rid of fox im kinda missing it, but realising theres sum half decent shows on free tv if u actually get into em...

but back on to american chopper...i was watching the great biker build off, and all these guys buy standard tanks/guards etc & bolt em together, calling it a custom bike..they dont make ANYTHING....whereas OCC (american chopper) MAKE custom tanks, guards etc..the motor etc is just put together, but they also often design air filter etc..which none of the other clowns do..really OCC are custom bike builders...the rest are just "bike assemblers"

Posted: **Sun Feb 26, 2006 5:03 pm**

I made thew mistake of downloading a episode of that show once and it appeared to be a couple of guys that looked a lot like hulk hogan welding things that looked like spanners to the side of a cruiser type thing then dropping the whole lot in chrome and painting skulls on it.

A bit like back yard blitz with hulk hogan lookalikes and choppers.

Ohh and then charge the customer $100000 bucks for the thing :shock:

I am sure someone somewhere likes it.

Posted: **Sun Feb 26, 2006 7:22 pm**

Don't bother with the Xbox American Chopper game, its crap

Posted: **Sun Feb 26, 2006 7:41 pm**

Barrabob wrote:I made thew mistake of downloading a episode of that show once and it appeared to be a couple of guys that looked a lot like hulk hogan welding things that looked like spanners to the side of a cruiser type thing then dropping the whole lot in chrome and painting skulls on it.

A bit like back yard blitz with hulk hogan lookalikes and choppers.

Ohh and then charge the customer $100000 bucks for the thing

I am sure someone somewhere likes it.

mate there hilarious to watch..pauly snr & jnr are at each other all the time..fights, arguments..ppl destroying shit...wheelying scooters, crashing trucks..u name it..its got all the drama of a good soapie too!!

if i ever win lotto, im going over there to buy one..and get em to build it for me, while i watch...

Posted: **Mon Feb 27, 2006 4:36 pm**

I must admit I'm addicted to American Chopper, it's a pisser of a larf sometimes.

Posted: **Tue Feb 28, 2006 12:02 pm**

Neka79 wrote:actually since i got rid of fox im kinda missing it, but realising theres sum half decent shows on free tv if u actually get into em...

but back on to american chopper...i was watching the great biker build off, and all these guys buy standard tanks/guards etc & bolt em together, calling it a custom bike..they dont make ANYTHING....whereas OCC (american chopper) MAKE custom tanks, guards etc..the motor etc is just put together, but they also often design air filter etc..which none of the other clowns do..really OCC are custom bike builders...the rest are just "bike assemblers"

Did you see the great biker build off with the aussie bloke?
He made everything by hand out of alluminium. He even made
custom rollers to make guards.

http://www.scottys-choppers.com.au/bike ... index.html

Posted: **Sun Mar 05, 2006 9:29 pm**

Yeah I saw that one Ment. The pommy and american just pulled everything of the shelf and put it together. Where as the Aussie bulit everything from scratch by hand, including the frame.
The Aussie guy called them bike assemblers, not builders..

Posted: **Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:50 pm**

I saw one of the latest creations from scottys choppers in a recent heavy duty mag (might have been some other cruiser mag).

Any way the thing looks f**king awesome. its a work of art rather than a motorbike.

I agree with Neka - those dudes from American Chopper are pretty funny.

If i had the cash i wouldnt mind a shit hot custom cruiser in the garage - next to my custom streetfighter, ZX10, and track bike of course :wink: