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New Episodes Of American Chopper: Senior vs Junior

I love my DVR. But it makes me lazy. Once I have a timer set to record I never really pay attention to what’s going to be on TV. Take the last two new episodes of American Chopper: I just happen to discover them on my DVR last night. Kind of fast forwarded though the first episode.

Nothing really new from what I saw, daddy suing junior. Mikey getting props for his art in spite of his questionable talent. If he wasn’t “Mikey”, would people be paying any attention?

But I digress. Point is, most of my web site traffic comes from those looking for info on the show or PJD choppers. And I just missed writing about two new episodes of the show. 

For those of you following my blog you’ve notice a shift towards favoring Junior over senior in this whole conflict/competition. Well last month I saw the Geico bike in person. I mean I could  have sat on it. That close.

Very well done. I still don’t like the tail but the bike is very well made.

I been up close and personal with a lot of bikes from the early days of OCC, and it right up there in quality.

I know recently OCC has had some serious issues with unhappy customers but those first theme bikes were very well made.

Again I’m losing the point of this post; which was to apologize for not keeping up with the latest Senior vs Junior episodes. I promise to at least try and do better.

I say “try”, it is riding season you know.

Jawa chopper again

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West Coast Choppers Has Closed

Just reported on Cyril’s Huze’s blog that Jesse James has closed West Coat Choppers. Cyril also reporting that Jesse’s frames will be manufactured now by Daytec and Belt Drive LTD will be producing other parts. Both will be available at http://www.customchrome.com.

I have not been able to validate this story with any other news source, but Cyril has contacts I can only dream about having. 

This is quite a blow to the industry.

http://westcoastchoppers.com/ourbikes/cfl/

Episode Two Senior vs Junior

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.