go Paul Jr! (OCC)

[DickyT]

The movie Idiocracy really looks like the way the world is headed, I am not joking either.

Leave me alone, I'm batin' :lmao:

 

[Tommy R]

I really do hate OCC strongly, and miss Biker Buildoff. OCC also tarnishes the spirit of motorcycling in general by glorfying their bad attitudes towards each other. Bikers for the most part are friendly and generous people, Biker Buildoff represented that very well, different shops helped each other out, people complimented the competition, showed positive attitudes towards each other, and just plain had fun and rode bikes, that's what its all about, not throwing chairs thru windows, or shouting at each other, or making light of someones drinking problems, or growing obnoxious moustache's.

Ever since Indian Larry died, Discovery channels biker based shows have gone downhill badly, I miss Larry, he was an idol to the biker community, now we have The Pauls and its just plain sad. I know drama sells, look at rerality tv (yuck) but I think real bikers mostly hate OCC, and the people who don't have bikes love them, and just have the shirt and think they are a bikers.

TV in general the last 10yrs has ruined society IMO, we glorify ****s, idiots, douchebags and tools to a godlike level and then everyone wonders why pre-teens and teenagers are such flaming morons nowadays. Evreyone thinks they are on Jersey Shore, or the Real World, and they just develope into bigger and bigger idiots day by day. The movie Idiocracy really looks like the way the world is headed, I am not joking either.

Idiocracy indeed. Couldn't agree more and yes, the loss of Indian Larry was tragic. If only he'd worn a helmet.

I hate to say it because I loved the show when it first came out, but OCC isn't a bike building show anymore (IMO), it's a soap opera.

Anyway, sorry for the hijack, y'all. Back to the bike talk...

 

[crazyorigin]

I'll base my fist.......off your face........ass!

Haha, its funny I see F bombs written out on here but it edits out the 4 letter word for someone who is overly sexually active w/ many many persons.

 

[TexasSP]

I can't believe people still watch OCC. The show started out okay years ago but when all the drama came about, I really started to hate it. I used to enjoy it but Paulie JR started to show his arrogance and childish behavior and I really started to hate it. They really do very little fabrication compared to other shops that get little to no recognition publicly. Welding mounting tabs on a tank, and ordering a bunch of parts from a catalog isn't custom bike building, it is just assembly of a bunch of stuff.

The new Father vs Son basis for the show now really disgusts me. It is glorifying the act of family being at each others throats, and I don't support that. I even make sure if I leave the TV on while I am not watching it, that its not on their show, I don't want to add anything to their ratings. If they want a show about custom cycles, there is plenty of other shops that make OCC bikes look like they are made frfom playdough, give them some fame, not 2 fat men who make nice gates, and ok bikes that now cooicidentally hate each other, which has boosted their ratings from the old show where they worked in the same shop. Both the Pauls are arrogant, I dislike JR the most becase he doesn't respect his father, who is the entire reason he is even rich and famous to begin with, his father built OCC, they were already pretty well off from their fence and gate building. I think the fact that Discovery already has OCC hats and shirts in evety gas station across america is the only reason they are still on TV, they just build the same ugly, clumbsy bike over and over, now they just pretend to hate each other while doing it in different shops.

Classic example of a show that is struggling for viewers, is the eposide they built that custom YFZ quad, that thing was ugly and pretty pointless, my quad woould put it to shame and I build mine in a 10x20 shed and was usually baked and drunk off my ass while doing it. The only good fabricators OCC has are the ones that don't get any recognition, its all about chubby JR and the mighty fu-man-chu of senior, they are a joke to me, and a waste of good airtime, I would rather see new biker buildoffs. You ever see OCC on one of those shows? Of course not, they would loose horribly, I saw an OCC bike at a show onetime, it had a fly in the paint, painted right over it, an $80,000 bike w/ a house fly in its paint? C'mon, that's pathetic, they may as well be made in the same shops as the cheap gas station 4wheelers you see for sale everywhere, at least they aren't overpriced junk, just cheap junk.

Sorry for the rant, but I really don't like OCC at all anymore, epitomizing a father/son fued makes me sick, don't buy the t-shirt, don't watch the show, you will be better off.

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I have a friend that works for Young Chopper & Hotrods and he and I had discussions about this. He wasn't bashing but more disappointed that people the get as much recognition as SR/JR have such poorly built bikes. To many people they represent custom bikes when in reality they aren't a representation at all. My friend especially commented on the poor welding that was done then powder coated and/or painted over much like the fly you mentioned.

When it comes down to it Jr doesn't really ever build anything either, just has ideas which all are the same or copies of others work and has his people build it. No different than SR so putting him on a pedestal over SR is kind of ridiculous. The one that really gets me is Mikey, talk about useless. His artwork, the first real thing I have seen him do, is nothing my 4 year old couldn't accomplish.

 

[mongoose]

I think JR's bike better represented the CTS. I like how PJD visualizes and fabricates "by the seat of their pants." (ie no CAD) Pity too cause Rick is the bomb!!