GOOD RIDDANCE!!! When the show first came out I was just really getting into bikes. Was always a car guy. So as a guy in his early 20s whos only real exposure to bikes was his friends Harleys, it seemed cool. Than I saw one of their bikes up close at a show, and even in my noobiness, I could tell it was garbage. There was this older guy (in his 70s or so) standing next to me looking at it, and Pauly Sr looked at him and said, "bet ya wish there was a bike like this in your day, huh?". The older guy just said, "no, the bikes in my day werent pieces of s#!t" and walked away. It was great. Than about a year later, my uncle who at the time worked for TrimSpas nascar team, got to ride the bike they built for them at a track somewhere. It cost over 100k, and after 1 lap my uncle said it was the absolute worst bike hes ridden in 30+ years. Total garbage. These guys were and still are a joke. Theres not a single real builder out there who has any respect for them, and in this industry, its all about respect. If the guys who are considered real builders (like irish rich, chica, kutty noteboom, cole foster, sugar-bear, chopper dave, etc...) think your garbage, than you are. Sorry, its just a fact. There "bikes" are everything the chopper culture isnt. Homoginized, over priced, poorly built, uninspired, crappy handling, under engineered, show pieces. Back in the day (and I speak only from the words of those who were their admittadly) even most of the show bikes could still be ridden hard. Not just on and aff a trailer. The worst part was all the moron CEOs who payed them thousands of dollars for this crap. They werent builders or bikers. They were guys who cashed in on a fad, and made out like bandits. I hope they never get in front of another camera. And the final nail in the coffin of my disgust with OCC... About a year after they built the POW bike, a group of Vietnam vets had come to their shop during business hours to see it and pay tribute to their fallen brithers. The pricks wouldnt even let them on their property. The vets had even called ahead. Bet it wouldve been different if there were cameras rolling. That kind of disrespect should never be tolerated.
