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.
But let's face the unfortunate fact that drama sells. Just look at all the other surprisingly successful stuff on TV these days. Ultimately, the viewers are to blame for this so, like you, I also will often change the channel of the TV from those shows.
