Any of you guys check this out last night? What is your thoughts on the bikes being built?


James

 

I got it on my DVR list, hadn't watched it yet...

 

i would say between the 2 actual bikes and what ever you wanna call that thing OCC built its comparing apples to oranges to a peanut butter sandwich haha. Although that thing OCC made is pretty cool and looks like a ton of fun to drive. PJD bike is a piece of art but not a practical bike to ride daily and Jesse James is so full of himself its almost a pain to watch but make a nice chopper. Its so stretched in the backbone he cant even see over it haha

 

I thought it pretty funny to watch Jessie try to see the road around that front end. Nice bike but about 8 inches too high. He says he would like to see them all drive 1000 miles with their build. I would love to see him try that with his build. His knees were so wide it looked very uncomfortable. O C C built a snow machine and Junior's looks amazing to me. If the winner is based on new ideas I would have to go withJunior.

 

I dunno guys, I can't believe the results. The competition was to see who was the best bike builder, not parts assembler. Jesse might be full of himself but he builds a damn good bike, parts and all. Junior takes a frame off the shelf, sends CAD designs to wheel shops, has outside companies fabricate billet stock fork and swing arm, puts a s-load of rivets in sheetmetal and calls himself a fabricator? All the while his crew is doing the assembling of store bought pieces and people still vote him as the best bike builder??? Give me a break, what an crapload. It was a popularity contest, and all the little girlies watching the show who more than likely haven't ever touched a bike voted for him. Guarantee his bike sits in a showroom from now on. If it did see a road, I bet all the rivets loosen up and rattle, that or the wood on those wheels cracks! Complete BS

 

Couldn't have said it better myself. JJ builds his whole bike. All JR does is spit out theme bikes left and right. JJ laces his own wheels and builds the frame from the ground up. Jr takes measurements send those numbers to an outside frame company the punch them into a machine and that machine bends and cuts the pipe for the frame and then welds it all together. How is that building a bike.. Getting a frame and just bolting things onto it doesn't make you a bike builder.. It makes you a bike assembler.. A builder builts everything from scratch, like JJ


James

 

I think all 3 of them are arrogant and full of themselves due their tv fame. They all have some talent in their individual areas but they also have very talented people behind them making them look good.
I think all 3 of them need to get knocked off their soap box's and face the reality that they put their pants on and wipe their a$$'s just like the rest of us.
Vinnie and Rick seem down to earth, Mikey is a useless buffoon but on a positive note, Jr's wife is cute.

 

I couldn't see around the 10 guys helping JJ assemble his bike so I missed the part where he built his engine and laced his wheels.

 

Jr has some good ideas, but when those ideas translate into a 1 gallon gas tank, it ruins the bike. I'm actually glad that Jesse brought up the question of what size the gas tank was on Jr's bike. Jr does a lot of bikes where he hides the gas tank somewhere on the bike and I've always been curious what size the tanks were when hidden. But I did like Jr's bike with the exception of the 30 inch wheels and the one gallon gas tank. I didn't actually watch the shows when they were building the bikes, but I'm curious as to what in the world OCC was thinking when they came up with whatever that thing was that they built. It looks like it may be kinda fun to play around on, but I surely wouldn't consider it a motorcycle. I thought Jesse's bike looked great and is the only one that I'd really want to ride. I do a fair amount of touring on my bike, but I'm not sure I'd want to ride Jesse's bike cross country.

 

Couldn't agree more. This ended up being a popularity contest. No question asked, Jesse James built a real bike, and most of it by hand himself (plus a few members of the Austin Speed Shop due to time constraints). I voted Jesse, shame he didn't win. Im not saying im a fan of the "person Jesse James" and what he does/what he has done in his personal life, however for bike building purposes, hes the only real bike builder out of the three.

 

The OCC thingie looked like alot of fun but they should have done a "bike" for the "bike build off" but it seemed to me watching that they knew from the beginning that they had no chance of winning no matter what so the built whatever the heck they wanted to. It was pretty cool, it just didn't fit the purpose of the "bike build off" IMO.

Jesse James bike was pretty sweet. I found it funny and ironic that he kept giving PJD and OCC a hard time for having their "team" do most of the build, then at at the end he calls in a "team" to do most of his build. All I saw him do was the frame and front piece. Nice bike but it looked pretty uncomfortable to ride and he had to look around the side of the tank to see forward.

The PJD bike was more of a work of art than anything, like some else stated. But thats what they seem to do most of the time anyway, so nobody should be suprised. That engine did look pretty sweet. Wheels were a couple inches to big IMO and kinda took away from it.

It was gonna be a popularity contest no matter what the bikes looked like since the voting was started before people even knew what the bikes looked like. The should have had the build/reveal show Monday, then opened up voting for a week, and then announce the winner the following Monday.

 

I think JR had the best and coolest bike. OCC's bike looked like a three wheeled snow mobile. And JJ I don't like at all so I am not gonna bother with talking about him.

I totally agree with Mlamprey. They all need to get there butts whooped and get back to reality.

I mean you cant even watch the show because half the time it "My father is...." My father has to..." or "Pauly is....." "Pauly has to..." All they do is complain about eachother now and talk down about eachother behind there backs. Get over yourselves!

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What a joke.....the custom chopper trend is becominging a over played out dead horse.....

They should be building baggers....that's the trend now....

I'll shut up now.....

 

Ok well OCC, not a bike, Sr didnt build a single thing on it, his employees did, and stupid that you can't even go full speed

Jr, the bike just looked stupid, way too big of wheels and too narrow, I'm not a fan of fake stuff on a bike, so a fake gas tank is pretty stupid. With all the CNC machines he has why does he still outsource that stuff?

Jesse, he was the only bike builder on the show. For those ragging on him for bringing in a crew to help assemble his bike, seriously? He hand built the frame, forks, tank, and fenders, along with all the little stuff you don't see him make, besides what else is on his bike? nothing because its a chopper you dont add stuff you dont need. The team he brought in only helped to assemble the bike...now for the bike its self, too plain even though im sure that is what he was going for. Too tall of a frame and too long of a front end, and definitely too long of risers.

For best bike builder, no question Jesse James...

 

Bobbers seem to be the trend around here

My dad is pulling the bags off his 09 Roadking that has air struts in the rear...