Orange County Choppers

American Chopper -The Feud Between Paul Sr and Paul Jr. Continues

First off, I’m really late getting this posted, but knowing that this site has become one of the premiere sites for news on both OCC and PJD Designs, I knew I had to get something up today.

If you’ve been following the story of Paul Sr and Paul Jr you know that the big question for viewers has been whether or not Senior would attend Junior’s wedding. Short answer: he did not. He did receive and invitation, but he chose not to attend. For most families this would be a long term hurtful move but remember that Senior was not there emotionally during a lot of Paul Jr’s and Mikey’s childhoods so this must have been even more devastating for these guys as it would have been for someone who just recently got into and argument with their father.

So what about the fabrication side of the show?

PJD designs was tasked with building a quad while Jr went off on his honeymoon, and OCC Choppers built a bike for the National Fallen Heroes Memorial, taking cues from some of Paul Jr.’s previous theme bike work at OCC.

I was glad to see that Paul Jr kept the Discovery channel camera away from the wedding, as this is a private family affair, even though I’m sure it would have made for some great TV.

While Paul Sr skipped the wedding, Mikey was reached out to by his father and agreed to meet  Sr at a local diner but ultimately stood him up. It never ends, does it?

Senior vs Junior – Season Finale

As everyone already knows PJD (Paul Jr. Designs) unveiled both the Geicobike and the new web-themed Anit-Venom (also know as the PDJ bike) at Sturgis this year. The season finale of America Chopper was the story of both the unveilings as well as the OCC unveiling of the Lawless Electric drag bike.

Neither of the daytime unveilings had huge crowds and the time night unveiling of the Geico bike was right before the Motley Crue concert. In spite of the fact that JR managed to get two bikes ready for Sturgis, Paul Sr. refused to give him any credit for any of the work, and did not even go to check the bikes out.

It really seems the Sr. is not taking Paulie lack of failure very well. How sad for him.

OCC Lawless Drag Bike

Thursday’s episode of American Chopper: Senior vs Junior was by far the best yet. While Paul JR designs continue to work on both the Geico bike and the PJD Anti-Venom bike, OCC builds an electric drag bike for Lawless. The seventh episode of the season also contained the most footage of actual bike building so far which pleased me to no end. This show might have a future yet.

Of course the father against son drama continues to play out as Paul Jr discovers that Sr is actually trying to stop vendors from working with Paul Jr designs. While I’ll admit that I still don’t think that Paulie understands how much of his current success is a product of the momentum of OCC and American Chopper, Senior’s attempts to undermine him have now left a seriously bad taste in my mouth.

I’m also wondering if OCC vendors aren’t starting to consider jumping off this train before the wreck occurs and they regret being associated with Orange County Choppers at all. 

Next week’s episode is going to be the season finale.  Should make for some great TV as both shops show up at Sturgis.

American Chopper – Senior vs Junior Episode 6

Due to York PA’s bike weekend I didn’t get time to watch episode 6 of the new American Chopper until last night. I know many of you stop in every Friday to check out my latest blog posts. Sorry for the delay; which is going to be at least another day as I have got to get going to work.  Promise I’ll have my completely non professional opinion of the episode posted by tomorrow am including Senior’s attempt at actually undermining Paulie’s business..

Scott

Here it is…

This show actually keeps getting better!I have to admit I was extremely disappointed in the lack of bike building in the first couple of episodes, but now we are seeing our share at both shops. Thanks, TLC! While Seniors shop built a very tasteful OCC chopper with a fold down gas tank for the FBI and the Newburgh police dept. Junior continued both of his builds: the new Geico bike and Anti-Venom; his latest web themed bike.

Junior brings Lee up from down south to work on the Geico bike, which he does for exacty one day before quitting without notice over Junior’s poor work habits. But not before Senior attempts to buy him off with a $1000 dollar a day offer to come work at OCC instead of Pal Jr designs. Being a man of his word( kind of) Lee refuses, of course, but he still quits on Paulie.

If you DVR’d or Tivo’d this one(does anyone still TIVO?)you’ll want to watch it tonight I’m sure..

Episode 5: Senior Vs Junior – Junior builds a bike.

Last night’s American Chopper finally shows us Junior building a new bike, and also getting his first paying customer: Geico. The Geico bike and the newest web theme bike called ‘Anti-Venom” were both debuted at Sturgis last month( see: Paul Jr at Sturgis), so there no surprises there, but I, for one, am very happy for all the time that was spent on the actual builds.

It was even nice to see the silly ramp being built, that OCC made to launch an effigy of Junior across the creek. Paul Sr. is really taking this father-son thing too far, but he claims it’s all in good fun.

Meanwhile Paul Jr. Designs has apparently snagged the painting talents of Nub back. I’m still wondering what happened to the first painter on American Chopper, Justin. His business is still in Newburgh, and I know that he filed a lawsuit against Discovery and OCC for using his artwork without giving him compensation on merchandise. What I’m hearing is that he was never paid for any of the theme bikes he did for them, doing them simply for the publicity. Which means OCC got the paint job for free but then turned around and charged the client for it. What a sweet deal for them.  How many other parts on those bikes were obtained the same way?

And I’m sure JR is doing the same thing; getting his equipment for free and probably a good portion of his parts. Wonder if he’s paying Nub or not?  Heck; is he even paying Vinnie, or is this just free publicity for V-Force customs? Imagine if we could run our business by creating products with donated parts?

As we move forward I’m hoping that future bikes come out better that the new Geico bike. A tail? Are you serious?