American Chopper: Senior vs Junior – Paul Jr. Starts a bike
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You may recall that in my last post on the whole OCC saga Episode Two Senior vs Junior, I said that a real businessman wouldn’t wait for clients, he would just start building bikes. At the end of last night’s Episode, Paulie announces to the rest of the Paul Jr. designs crew that they are going to build a shop bike. As you might have guessed it would become one of the two bikes that were unveiled at Sturgis.
Meanwhile Orange County Choppers builds a bike for Esab welders and I noticed that Paul Jr. is using Lincoln welders when I visited his online clothing store, which is all his website currently is. OK both bikes have been revealed, why wouldn’t you immediately put photos of the builds on your website? I don’t know, probably some deal with TLC.
- Web bike photo from http://katesdon.files.wordpress.com
The rest of this episode centered around the now famous court case of Paul Sr suing Paul Jr to get his 20% of the business back. I think the entire coverage of the chopper build couldn’t have been more than 5 minutes, and shown absolutely nothing of final assembly. I really think that the producers of American Chopper are missing the mark here: the reason the ratings fell the last time around was too much focus on the personal lives and not enough on the bikes. Now we have an entire show devoted to their personal feud.
I’m giving it 6 episodes tops. Hope I’m wrong.
Categories: Orange County Choppers Tags: American Chopper, Bikes, Businessman, Clothing Store, Court Case, Entire Show, Final Assembly, Last Time, Lincoln, Lincoln Welders, Occ, Orange County Choppers, Paulie, Personal Lives, Photos, Producers, Saga, Shop Bike, Tops, Web Photo
Episode Two Senior vs Junior
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I wrote about this episode on my other blog Custom Harleys by mistake. No sense taking it down there so I’m just going to put a copy here also:
As we all know Paul Jr managed to snag a bike deal with Geico and unveiled not one but two bikes at Sturgis 2 weeks ago. See the story on my Choppers blog: http://www.chopperssite.com/index.php/orange-county-choppers/paul-jr-to-be-at-sturgis
Pics of the bikes can be found here: http://katesdon.wordpress.com/2010/08/14/paul-jr-designs/
I like the bikes. I understand why Paulie would want to do another spider bike, since that’s his trademark and Paul Sr. owns all of the previous bikes. And the Geico bike is sleek and not “cartoonish” at all.
Last night’s American Chopper episode focused on Junior’s failed attempts to get a client for Paul Jr Designs, and his filling his new shop with lots of idle equipment. Is it just me or have these first two episodes been edited in such a way to make Jr look like a failure? Numerous scenes have been Paul Sr. discussing how much of a failure Paulie is since he’s left the shop.
Obviously he did manage to snag one client at least that we know of but I question whether TLC is deliberately trying to slant the show in Sr’s favor, especially since OCC is the show’s bread and butter or if Paulie really does have no clue what he’s doing business-wise.
One thing I will say is this: instead of looking for clients to contract a build for, a real business man would have been building bikes anyway and trying to sell them for a profit while he looked for contract jobs. Is this exactly what senior means when he says Paulie wants everything handed to him: a contract to build bike before he gets his hands dirty. Image if you tried to open a shop that way. “Well we haven’t built any bikes yet, but would you like to order one?” I think you’d fail.
And while I believe it’s bit of stretch for Paul Sr. to say Paulie’s trying to ride on OCC’s coattails, it is obvious that the shop is not hurting with out him there. Kind of makes you wonder if that’s why Sr. brought in Jason Pohl when he did; so he would have good designer on staff when he finally had to fire Paulie?
I just wish this new version of the show was more about building bikes and less about the family issues.
Categories: Orange County Choppers Tags: American Chopper, Attempts, Bikes, Blog, Bread And Butter, Business Man, Clue, Coattails, Contract Jobs, Doing Business, Failure, Geico, Harleys, Mistake, Occ, One Thing, Orange County Choppers, Sturgis, Wordpress
American Chopper:Senior vs Junior
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Well last night OCC was back on the air in TLCs new version of American Chopper. What did you think? I notice we are spending less and less time on the bike builds as far as camera time and quite frankly as interesting as the whole father and son thing is, I really think if they don’t show more of the builds the show is doomed to be yanked again.
I have been scouring the net trying to find a pic of the bike Paul Jr was to unveil in Sturgis on the 11th, but am coming up empty. Send me a link if you find a shot of it please!
Lot’s of questions remain after watching last night’s episode.
What happened to the boutique?
Mikey in or out?
What about V-force and Cody?
How much of this is staged by TLC?
Senior looks surprised that Paulie’s opening a new shop yet there’s a camera in his face for a show that was supposed to have been canceled. Tell me that scene wasn’t staged?
Please post comments about last nights American Chopper show. Moderation will be light, so tell it like you see it.
Categories: Orange County Choppers Tags: American Chopper, Camera Time, Father And Son, Mikey, Moderation, Occ, Paulie, Sturgis, Tlc, V Force
