Archive for February, 2010

Time For A New Choppers Video

What can I say, it makes for an easy post:

West Coast Choppers

I sitting here thinking about what to write about and I get a Google alert about this post http://westcoastchoppers.com/mans-best-friend/ and I realize I have not done a post on West Coast Choppers.

A site about choppers without a post on Jesse James?

This is great bike to talk about. Jesse built this chopper to honor two of the shops beloved dogs; Cisco and Noodles. As an animal lover myself I can so see building a tribute bike to my pets.

As you can see from the picture this bike is a real work of art, and shows how much your love for the subject of your chopper build can come through in the bike itself. Which brings up a good point that is brought up on the original post on the West Coast Choppers site and that is that sometime you need a reason to build a chopper.

As the man who really brought the chopper scene to the general population, Jesse James appeal has always been the passion that he puts into every thing that he does. Who wouldn’t want to own a West Coast bike?

And it’s not just the completed bikes. WCC parts are sought after by bike builders who realize that the quality of every part they place on their bike matters.

Jesse and WCC still building the best choppers around.

Big Bear Choppers

When the economy took a tumble last year I expected that most of the companies making production choppers would fall with it. After all, choppers are more of a luxury item and unlike booze and cigarettes people are willing to give up having luxury items when economic times are tough.

Fortunately Big Bear Choppers survived. I’m guessing that part of the reason is the fact that they actually offer a production chopper for under 20K. The other part may be the fact that they sell their kit bikes to many smaller shops who build them. While some of the bikes do not technically qualify as choppers based on my criteria (see this: What Makes A Chopper A Chopper?), almost all models are either true choppers or can be bought as a chopper or a Pro Street.

Since 2002, Big Bear Choppers has also continually added new models to their line up and unlike some of their counterparts didn’t pull the old models from the line up. Best of all if you’ve only got about 20k and time on your hands you can save yourself about 10k by building the bike yourself. Big Bear’s kit bikes are second to none.