I for one would do just about anything to get to see that spectacle first hand. To see righteous vintage iron being modified for performance…but on the cheap, and then being flogged hard in situations that you simply don’t see choppers in anymore. Or better yet to get to ride with a group like that. To have some real camaraderie instead of having to talk to guys about polishing chrome, Corbin seats, tasseled saddlebags, and about casting numbers on NOS parts. People, choppers aren’t about long front ends, way out there forward controls, stupid riding positions, the tallest bars, the lowest bars, wide tires, restoration or historical accuracy.
It’s not about a “theme” or making sure it all “flows”. It’s not about how many pike nuts you can bolt onto your bike, or how good that heat wrap looks on your pipes. Sure you can build them that way if you want… but they have ceased to be choppers to me at that point. You leave out the performance, the speed, the careful design with function as the number one goal…and you are building something else.
Call it what you will…but it ain’t a chopper to me anymore. With any luck, maybe some of these guys will become illegals over here and we can get some class imported back into our choppers.
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