Why you Should NEVER Buy an Orange County Chopper
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I dont know about you guys, but for us mechanics here in Germany the OCC was basically a comedy show on how to not build things. Its like watching bear grylls and expect to be a survivialist afterwards. Really you watch it because of how ridiculous it is.
I remember one time when they built a military bike and one of them walked around with a box of random military gear that he started welding to where ever there was space on the bike. Absolut prime humor.
@@MotoDonuts I still liked the show. And you could learn something from it. There were some talented builders and some up to date technology in it. But as a concept, their bikes were mostly a joke. I believe they were fully aware of that though.
@@MotoDonuts Not to mention the biggest losers who paid stupid amounts for those trash bikes.
Oh yeah, its wild that someone would actually pay pay for one of these
Good luck with European Union mandates. I will be riding American Iron a long time while you ride electric Barbie scooters ...have fun ..
@@peteraugust5295definitely had some skilled fabricators on the team! As far as welding random stuff on I’m with you.. it was for tv.
You gotta sell it back to your neighbor, he seemed stoked having it back
Make money on the video get it running fool around for a week and then sell it to the neighbor , make lots more money this way
Came here to say that too. Once the video is made, running, ridden, dyno, sell it to him. It obviously means probably more to him than anyone other than the original owner. Seems like a cool guy to have around the channel too!
We all know it was meant to be. That neighbour is meant to have that bike after this video. Praise god, and his son that was sent to save us all
Edit: grammar/spelling
I would ask him for some help at least ...😊
Yes sell it to the dude. He seems cool.
that dude deserves the bike. so humble and full of insights.
A Las Vegas casino is suing OCC after a patron won the bike, then a few months later the engine fell off the frame and caused injuries. The patron sued the casino and won, and now the casino is suing OCC.
Sadly, companies getting sued is hardly an indictment of their liability anymore, especially in the US. People sue for all sorts and win, even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. It's a pathetic culture. However, I suspect it's probably justified in this circumstance...
@@cameronslater1857 Jay Leno even trashed out OCC on his UA-cam channel.
Apparently Leno bought one of OCC's bikes, and immediately started having trouble with the electrical and transmission; Leno rides his motorcycles, drives his cars.., so he spotted the issues pretty quickly.
Even former employees of OCC are going after Paul Sr for a variety of issues from refusing to pay wages, to making verbal threats over the telephone.
@@cameronslater1857I think the media did a better job convincing you people suing for nothing is a bigger problem than corporate greed. Seeing as you felt the need to say all that in response to something you claim to agree with.
@@jizzyb76 I think a five year old could do a better job of structuring a sentence than you just managed seeing as you felt the need to bump your gums. 👍
@@cameronslater1857 didn't bump any gums, typed pretty respectfully considered. Nice try deflecting though.
That your neighbor built part of this bike, is off the hook, CRAZY!!! I thought it was another one of your gags, until he started talking about it. WOW.
I could not agree more, Talk about luck. His neighbor saved him time and gave him valuable info.
Plus new bike friend. Am I right?
What a Wild World. This whole video was very interesting and fun.
its scripted
I still think it was very well staged, the video of it being previously ridden almost looked real.
The CaveMan was Geico mocking me in 1990s after returning from Jerusalem, about same time as SNL GoatBoy.
@@James-zh4eo @GamingInfested How do you guys know? This is what I though at first, But he's not really the type of guy to make things up. He seems to be a God fearing man and truthful. IDK? maybe I need to watch this channel more. :-)
I had a buddy get a nice inheritance in 06, he ordered a bike from OCC, they said 8 months but took them 2 years...When he did get the bike It didn't make it 50 miles down the road. Then when he called to complain they ghosted him. He then had the bike towed mack to their shop they trespassed him immediately. Cops showed up and told my buddy they come out once a week for this very thing. "They sell a bike that doesn't run, person brings it back and they trespass them". He sued and they paid him extra for a NDA.
Probably BS
I’ve read a few stories similar to that from BBB claims
They can't be that bad, The engines aren't even built there, They just do the body
OCC wasn't really about bikes it was about selling advertising. A company like GEICO has a bike built for a 100k + and they got millions of views from the show. It was the cheapest advertising you could buy and it was genius on both OCCs part and GEICOs. Too bad OCCs bikes weren't as nicely built to run as they were cosmetically.
High p
OCC is a joke - right?
You'd never ride one of those death traps! Only a fool would ever do so.
I used to watch OCC with my dad years ago. He was a disabled Vietnam Vet, and he loved the POW-MIA bike. I bought him the dvd of that episode and bought him the small scale model of that bike.
I noticed the 101st Airbourn flag in the background. I used to work in a shoppette on Ft. Campbell, Kentucky.
I had the model of the POW-MIA bike as a kid, lol. Thanks for triggering some good memories, stranger. 💪🏼💪🏼
Lol I think that was my favorite bike design they ever did.
So you bought a trailer for 10k, and it came with a free crappy motorcycle.
Lol
Don't forget the cheap Swiss watch. That's no Rolex, that's for sure. I bet it keeps time though. I have a cheap Rodania from the '60s and it is as accurate as a digital watch. Loses a couple seconds a month.
I would have shock that guys hand when he offered 15K.
@@Lurch-Bot The watch could maybe be worth around $800? They're about $1400 new, and that's a 'special version' but first of all those watches lose value immediately when you buy them, and the value of that Geico version can be lower or higher depending on someone being willing to pay less or more for that 'special Geico version'.
The watch itself is an ordinary quartz trinket.
The watch was what made it worth the ten grand.
A hardtail and a solid tube steel seat? Whoever designed this bike has something against buttocks and spines.
Race bike, It has a seat? Wow! so much luxury! :-)
But for real. Imagine doing a burnout on that thing, It would throw rubber all over your back and head.
Kind of like the old Greeves or Harleys, with oil on your back and in your hair.
Its just a piece of art man... they didnt build bikes to be ridden
@@zachroberts1988 yeah, if it got any use at all after being built it was to start it up and rev it to the limiter a few times.
Where we are going we don't need spines
@@volvo09hopefully not on a cold start
when my 1984 Honda vf500c wouldn't start without carb clean, and i removed the fuel pump and called the local Honda dealer and they said it doesn't have a fuel pump, and i bench tested it and it just smoked in my hand and its bad; they said it doesn't have a fuel pump and there is no listing for it. I bought an Edelbrock electric fed gravity pump and plumbed it up and it works just like the old one, and you can hear if its running or not with the key on.
I am not a huge bike fan but I used to watch those clowns back in the day. This particular bike was one of my favorites of all time that they built. I would have loved to have that in a collection. Such a cool bike. Great video!
10k for the bike the trailer and the replica race boat is the deal of a lifetime.killer find Sean.
Hell that Rolex is probably worth more than the bike alone! (Edit: as pointed out, it’s an Edox, but I are dumb and was half awake watching the video 🤦🏼♂️)
and those watches sold for around $2,400.. so he basically got 25% of his money back from just the watch
@@EddieMitz it’s an Edox, not a Rolex 😂
Hell, the trailer alone is probably $3500 give/take so the bike itself is basically $6000 down ridiculously from the $100k that it originally sold from OCC for. OCC and the chopper craze was such a huge joke to serious riders.
And the watch. He got a deal on all that.
The trailer alone is worth a lot. 10 grand is actually not that bad for the whole package.
true
And some rc boats are expensive haha
I would have taken the 15,000 and not deal with the aggravation. Lol.
Watch is 1.5 - 2k
@@Teab8git's a very special edition, the normal version costs $2k. That's probably worth $5k+ to the right collector.
Fuel injectors would definitely need unblocking after years of bad fuel in them. I have used a 9v battery to activate and free up stuck injectors before. Works like a charm.
Dont understand why they didnt do that immediatly after seeing the fuel line. You already know everything that touched fuel is potentially fucked.
Always hated that show. The fights between the father and son were soul crushing. That they eventually had such a big fight they couldn't reconcile was obvious but painful nonetheless.
I agree. Huge egos and greed. I liked Mikey though. I think he was the young kid who just wanted everyone to get along so he turned to comic relief to try to break the tension.
@@hofahome was always my gripe always argueing. sad it was between father and son. now all the argueing come from naked and afraid!!! lol
I was a young engineer when that show was on and I quickly took notice to how the OCC used to just build up the bikes based on looks alone, without any thought to ergonomics or whether it would be safe for the rider to be taking on an extended trip. Then I realized those bikes really were intended to be show pieces and not really taken out ever.
its like that with most tuners too like my brother works on many tuned cars most of them are trailer princesses
It was an hour long advertisement...those companies would have taken a signed wheel home ..theybdidnt care about getting a running motorcycle or a safe one
Yup.
Yup they're basically made to ride around on a trailer and pushed out at shows to prove how cool you are lol
Not entirely. They were bar crawlers, meant to drive 10-20 mile round trip in town and show off.
Spent $10k and made a new life long friend. Give the bike to that guy and keep him on the channel. You’ve already broken even with the trailer, watch and views.
100% this, having a good friend and neighbor is priceless
@origamihawk I'm your neighbor. Give me a $10k motorcycle and we can be friends!
@@4wdiesels in the world of UA-cam it’s all about the views man. The logic doesn’t have to work for real life
The guy has $15k cash lying at home, no need to give it away for free.
@@Okurka. then take the $15k and act like he gave it to him for UA-cam. But he wouldn’t do that.
My favorite OCC build was the Baskin Robbins, with its ice cream sandwich foot pegs, waffle cone hand grips, ice cream scoop shifter and the colorful sprinkles all over the sheet metal. That Paul Sr was a visionary.
It has every other bike licked?
It probably lasted as long as an ice cream cone on a hot day!
one of the meteorite men told me that the Meteorite Men bike had to run for one shoot. It broke.
I had a similar experience. I bought a Modified 1975 Porsche 914 from a random dealer in Oregon. A few months later I was at a random gas station in California and met the initial owner that did the modifications. He told me all about the car and knew exactly everything about the car that only he would know.
Moments like those are interesting...
Something happened to me like that too. I traded in my Evo X to a Honda dealership. Then they sold it about 2 weeks later. I had wheels that were on the car that I couldn't use anymore. So I sold them. When the guy came to pick the wheels up. It was my old Evo pulling up lol. Guy lived a state over . I gave the guy a bunch of stock parts I had laying around the garage that came off the car .
@@MrJjburgess11 That's wild. Life is funny sometimes
@PipeScholar yeah , I was like what are the odds . Like I was meant to see the car one last time lol
😅 6:05 😅😮
The irony of that death trap being a GEICO ad is amazng.
LMFAO great point! "We will insure anything (except this POS!)
I expect nothing less from professional racketeers
indeed.
How lucky you are to have the guy who built it next door. I have loved the Orange county chopper show for years, but I didn't think half are rideable with the things that was built. I used VP in my 64 Nova drag racer, very nice. Love the kill switch, lol, until the clip falls off your show. I'm sure you can find a full pump at any bike shop. Nice watch at the end. On top part 2, ps, 50 years of rc boat racing, I would love to know what you plan to do with it. Thanks for the video. Now for part2
I collect watches and as soon as I saw that box I knew what you were going to open that up and find you are one lucky man I'd rather have that watch than that bike God did bless you with this purchase
HEy Sean when you saw the gum in the fuel lines, that is from C16 fuel all the injectors will be gummed up with that exact same stuff thats why the injector hose blew because the injector is fully clogged with C16. you can never leave C16 for any amount of time. it should be drained if you dont plan on using the bike for even a few days its that volatile
I would take the tank off. clean it out make sure no gum got in the new fuel pump. then take off the fuel rail that will need cleaning and depending how the injection is set up will either have some hose to the injector or it will go straight into the manifold. clean head to tank mate
Damn good find. how cool was that guy seeing his baby again. he obv loved that bike. and everytime you build big project bikes you leave parts of you in that bike. im sure hed love it back once you are done. or at the minim let him ride it and come visit
ya pretty much any fuel will do that c16 the worst
Yeah that's not the fuel lines gumming up, that's everything fuel related gumming up with that fuel jelly haha
Yep as soon as you see that level of gum... you gotta replace everything fuel touches and clean out the tank. Should have been the plan from the beginning to be honest... but this kinda shows his level of experience with starting up old junk. Anyone that's pulled something old back from storage/barns/fields that wants to get it running has a pretty similar check list. That's nearly the top item.
Yeah as soon as I saw the line I was thinking maybe the entire engine needs a flush
I can only think this was for content? Like its pretty obvious everything to do with the fuel system is bad, so why keep trying to crank it when there is way more du-dilegence required?
soon as you see one bad fuel line you have to assume that everything touched by fuel has degraded .
Hoses , filters , pump , injectors . Honestly i would not trust those clutch lines either .
It was super cool to see that guy seeing a bike he built so long ago .
I've had this happen to me once , i helped a friend of mine build up a car for racing , he sold it , we never saw it and then i randomly found it 5 years later .
Went to look for the owner , and it is just a great feeling man , like seeing an old friend . The car was not special , but the connection i had to it warmed my heart
EXACTLY, parts of the hose are throughout the fuel system, they basically MELT...🫣
The injectors are plugged up for sure
Ethanol?
@@mrmagoo916 no, this damage is from fuel left in the lines. Over time it breaks down and starts eating the rubber. Turns into a black slugde, clogs filters, injectors, carb jets. It's nasty stuff.
Ethanol will do that as well, but it is far more likely to oxidize anything metal it touches since it pulls moisture from the air
lol at random "previous owners/builders"
got an old FZR250. was using it for courier work. random guy runs up to me... "you still riding that thing!?"
um...yeah? you know what it is? (lets say, i keep my bikes looking pretty damn rough... mad max style...)
"yeah... i SOLD IT TO YOU!!!!"
meh, during covid lockdowns, didnt realise who it was with the mask on... and as id only spoken to him for a minute or two anyway...
Great little vid there Glenn. The Mid is an exceptional build. Did full carbon on mine to. Do you need a longer belt for the LWB conversion do you know?
Fess up bro. You bought this bike as bait to get your neighbor in a video! Haha!
The best thing to come out of OCC was that one meme.
love that meme
@@BikesandBeardshi
What's the meme?
@@NickTaylorRickPowers it’s like four pictures of the father and son arguing. When people use it correctly I get a good chuckle out of it.
It's pretty sad when the show that was on for like 10 years it's boiled down to a meme😂😂
Jay Leno called them the biggest piece of crap
And went on to say the geometry was all wrong,...Dude,its a Chopper !!
Based Leno
I believe he is based in Burbank.@@DougBurgum4VP
He wasn’t wrong.
Choppers aren't meant to be "practical" or comfortable.
If you've watched that show and ever even cut a piece of metal, you know they just assemble😂. They weren't concerned about a rideable bike.
That watch is no joke - Edox is a Swiss Watch brand over 100 years old. The translation is Master Watchmaker Les Genevez (where the company is based) since 1884. Not a bad grab to be included in the 10K as that watch could easilly cost 2-4K by itself.
If I ever paid $140k for a motorcycle my family would (rightfully) have my head examined. No bike is worth that.
In fairness, a super rare collectors bike like what you might see in Jay lens garage might hit that much, but not a chopper.
He paid 10k for the bike
Especially one that has the comfort of a buckboard wagon .
@@Kevin-qo6jw They're talking about the original value of the bike
@@jordanblackwood84 and how do u know what someone else is talking about do u have special powers
My Dad was the former director of operations for Geico offshore. His name is Chief Savering. Still going strong at 86 years old.
Tell him to send me some items!!
Great company
See if he wants to buy a little boat.
That was a well built team!
@@AnHonestLiar You asking for free stuff?
When you get a system like that you have to completely clean the entire fuel system from the tank all the way down to the injectors with a new fuel pump and filters and everything what a mess. Meaning gas tank comes off and gets power washed inside.
No Suspension, No speedometer, No Power, No Parts available, Ridiculous Price...NO THANKS...
That trailer and watch is worth more than what you paid for the bike lol.
Plus his neighbor wanting 15k for it, he’d make 5k plus get the trailer and the boat for free
Exactly. The watches new sold for $2500
The watch is $2,400.00 but yea he got a great price for the stuff he got
Half a video deserves Half a like!
Your neighbor should have offered to help get the bike back into shape if he wants you to sell it to him.
Since he didn't he's out! Lol!
The trailer and watch are worth more than the bike. What are you going to do with a 200HP Hardtail? One pothole and your spine's shattered before you hit the tarmac.
That man coming over and that helped build it is genuinely incredible!
It was all scripted
People are saying it was a Thompson Supercharging and this dude is fiction.
Bubba Lloyd is the guy and he had a shop from what ive found bem
Only because he figured he was gonna buy the bike after....period. Not the goodness of his heart. If Shawn said no way in hell to selling it, he'd have been on his own.
@@KrunchyTonez617That a huge assumption.
Jessie James said it " I build bikes to RIDE , OCC makes bikes to Look at ."
Im sitting here fully consumed in this show. Completely away from my own problems in my life. Thanks for a good time man!!!!!
You could see it in the builders eyes this ment so much to him! imagine seeing your baby return after so many years. This better have a wholesome ending please !
Really? I thought he was lying
he didnt lie, vic mackey lies.@@post-leftluddite
@@post-leftludditethe 8 year old video of him riding it wasn’t enough? Or the fact he knew so much about the bike?
@@post-leftludditewhat about his demeanour made you think that?
@@post-leftludditehe should them a video of him on the bike!
Their stuff looked cool for the time but i know a few guys who rode one and said it was a death trap. My buddy Ted said he got rolling on one he was going to buy and stopped before he shifted out of 1st because the front wheel geometry was so bad it scared him. He said the forks wanted to lay over and it was a huge fight to keep the wheel straight.
.. I've basically heard the same of another many years ago - it's not all just hearsay
Dont buy it without a ride, simple
They were show bikes. I’m surprised you didn’t realize that..? 😮
They are art pieces and that is really it. They handle like a semi truck and really are only good for a straight line and that's it. This geico bike is clearly a show bike only but theoretically could be used for drag racing. I want to get into making custom bikes but I want to make functional works of art that you would want to drive everyday and not just shelve. It does no good if nobody ever sees it and if you only ride it once.
One of my neighbors had one, he rode it once, then tried to sell it . . . first listed it at $80k. Every year he dropped it by $10k. He finally sold it fir $12k to a kid who didn't know any better.
I rode a ridiculously customized Night Train show bike and it was the most uncomfortable ride in my life. I had back spasms with the far forward controls and drag bars. Super cool looking though.
What amazed me about the OCC TV show was how stupid and how little people knew about motorcycles but were prepared to spend 1\4 milion dollars on a bike that is basically a full size toy with no brakes. No speedometer. No rev counter. No ignition or even be able to ride the thing due to the geometry making it so unsafe. And less HP than many scooters.
Why would anyone leave fuel in that thing? Very sad how people mistreat their engines. The whole fuel system is full of varnish and gelled fuel. It had no chance of running. I am amazed that they didn't stop and clean the entire fuel system before trying to crank it the first time.
That is toe-curling instant gratification for you. Or the 'need' to make this story watch-worthy for those who lack the knowledge to be upset.
@@mmeijer635it's like his comment that that hydraulic clutch was dangerous, hydraulic brakes are fine but not clutches?, today all vehicles have hydraulic brakes and many of them have hydraulic clutches, has he never had a clutch cable brake, such a stupid comment.
why you'd ever put fuel in that horrific monstrosity of a bike in the first place is a mystery XD
Never buy anything Paul Jr. Had a hand in building. Theme bikes are trailer queens and made for display only.
Yea, real mechanics know to drain fuel system. Check for dry rot hoses, check for rust in the tank, pull injectors and make sure their clear and change filter. Then put new fuel in and run fuel pump to see fuel coming out at the fuel rail. Know for sure it's ok, then if it don't start, only thing left is spark. Which is the other thing to check. Pull plugs, replace wires due to dry rot, then try to fire it up.
Your neighbor is very talented. Seems incredibly knowledgeable on everything engine related
Since your watch is a chronograph, more than likely it has a quartz movement. Since it was still wrapped in plastic, I would assume that it has never been worn. If that is true, then the crown is pulled out to keep the movement from running and using up the battery while in storage. Try pushing the crown in and see if it runs.
I work for the storage yard, we will be taking legal action to have our road resurfaced.
As Jeremy Clarkson famously said.... hand-built is a fancy way of saying that the door would fall off. But OCC and his car-butchering counterparts took it a whole new level.
Rolls Royce is hand built. It's not always true about being less quality work.
This only shows how incompetent on driving people with driver's license are. It doesn't take in depth or even rudimentary knowledge on mechanics to realise that for example in this bike, the front for suspension has no chance of working at this angle it was put on.
Home-made and hand-made are two different things.
How sad are we as a society that mass production is now seen as the pinnacle of quality?
That being said, OCC is not quality. It's just expensive.
@@randyoehlert5045my father does auto body and restorations and has worked on 3 rolls Royce’s. They’re nice, but the hand built nature absolutes hurts the quality.
@@brianbelgard5988 At the end of the day they are humans. It's possible to do things as well as a robot, but takes a lot of time and motivation.
Holy cow this video has everything! Crusty, a mystery box, a Cavewoman’s bike, a boat, a collectors watch. And the odds being neighbors with the guy that had a hand in building a completely one off bike. I’m guessing that bike was a big tax write off originally lol.
They absolutely are, and they're generally paid for out of their advertising budgets.
I know an acquaintance that lost a sizable drag racing sponsorship to a company that had a custom bike built for the TV show fairly early on, and he they were up front about how they were trying to widen their brand, so their advertising was going to try something different, plus there was no animosity apparent between them, so I tend to believe it .
@@ChuckChuckBoBuck i loved that show back in the day. I still may watch it occasionally and find clips on YT. IDK any other TV people that rose to fame so quickly and fell so hard in the end.
The watch is an Edox CO-1. It's a quartz watch with a one off face. Being quartz (versus mechanical), it's cheap crap. It'd be considered a cheap novelty watch. I'm a watch guy. Nice trailer, though.
I definitely would not tell people I was the one who tuned and tested the drivability of OCC bikes lmao.
Outside of that, this is awesome.
This channel and The Bearded Mechanic are by far favorite things to watch on yt. Thank you so much for being awesome regardless if it a 1k bike or a 15k one i love to watch this channel!
what a beautiful coincidence - you can tell the passion the guy had for the motorcycle he built. great vid!
... definitely a huge diff when u build your own - I do just that - the pride every day when it comes time to fire n' do a ride - all the issues in the world vanish within those moments til the return back to the world re-awakening - and to perform the ritual thruout many years - absolutely priceless
So you think there's no chance these guys had never discussed this bike, or the fact this guy did work for OCC in the past, and fabricated this one in a million coincidence to make a more interesting video?
Only the GEICO caveman would be caught dead driving that bike 🏍
The black widow has always been my favorite occ bike. Just something tough about the spiderwebs overlaying the body parts, I always thought they should’ve made the webbing interchangeable with a blacked out set rather than chrome but that bike ALSO has reliability and functionality
I did see that spider bike up close in Tennessee at a bike show way back.
That bike was the laughing stock of the event. Just a joke after looking up close. It's what we call a 50 footer.
"When you inevitably fly off the bike, that stops it running."
Damn, that's mental.
And it will cost 100k to repair
It's also Metal
Like for jet-skis, I suppose
If it ever runs
I would rather have the boat instead of the bike..
I'm still wondering what model it is!!!! I've never seen them that big unless there the jet powered turbine engines
@@hiajoonblitz8334right but looks like it’s just a model hull for display.
I wonder why it's so heavy though.@@lukekroll101
@@hiajoonblitz8334 The full size boat was a 50 foot mystic running twin Lycoming turbines. Made 4200 up.
I hope it's remote control
After surgery, I was stuck watching them on TV. Like watching most shows of this type, they just prove how incompetent they are. As a retired professional automotive technician, my joy of watching these shows is finding all the bad decisions.
Miss Geico was a catamaran produced by Mystic Powerboats. It's powered by 2 jet turbines and was retired a little over a decade ago. 220mph boat.
I was stationed at the ANG base right on the other side of the fence from the new OCC facility for several years. When they had their 15 minutes, they went big. The facility was nice. Had their show bikes on display, a merch shop, a couple bowling lanes, and a bar and grill. 6 or 7 years ago, they sold the building and rented it back from the new owners. When I left in 2022, the building was abandoned and had a for sale sign in front of it. Not much of a market for 6-figure bikes that are barely rideable I guess.
It’s more like art
So after selling the building and then renting it back occ ended up leaving? Do they still exist or gone for good?
I'm glad I got to visit before it left. It was pretty cool imo and got to see Sr in there and down the road we saw Jr's place but no Jr. We did however see a bunch of guys riding tricked out choppers so maybe we did end up seeing more people but didn't realize. My dad watched the show a lot and I still got my shirt from there
@michealknight3776 it's more like fart 💩
@@s1dew1nd3r4JR had opened his own shop directly across the street from their first shop about 15 min up the road. Think JR is now in NJ now and SR is in FL.
When OCC was on TV, they didn't even build their own frames. They had a custom builder make them. That's why you never saw them welding up a frame.
Yep,the basic models, they bought all the parts in bulk and then just bolted them together for ridiculous money.
@@davehoward22 At least later, when the company had a large headquarters, the frames of the custom bikes were manufactured in-house.
reminds me of a "custom drum shop" in my area that doesn't even make their own drum shells. Just paints the shells and attaches hardware... Quite a big following as well.
Probably bought the frames from Jireh...
Damn, he got all the information that he needed from the neighbor. That is completely impressive.
There's a much better battery you can put on that you can also put a limit controller on it that would help it could charge the battery on revs and you can also limit the horsepower to prevent bike fly off.
The odds of meeting the man who essentially fit and finished the bike, are astronomical. This video has definitely made me more interested in bikes!
Currently, the US and Canada's combined population is over 382 million. 1:382,000,000?! Astronomical odds indeed!
It was divine destiny
Not when you consider there are very few people that do that kind of custom work, in fact there are only a handful in the US.
Man, I used to think OCC was SO COOL back in the day! Watched Every episode.
That story that your neighbor helped build it, is Insane! Just a ridiculous cool story! And, his info about the bike is super helpful!
Everyone did. Show was huge! Imagine all the merch sold on account of that tv show! All only to be called out 20yrs later for the shoddy quality. They appealed to the style of the times for sure.
😂I thought the show was lame like all tv shows scripted. UA-cam has killed tv shows completely.
@@geoffws6they had deadlines for the show and couldn’t finish things like they should and outsourced work off camera like this bike… pretty sad what hollywood and money does.
18:38 Real quality work.
I wanna see a Video: "The Hydraulic Press VS the Supercharged Geico Orange County Chopper"
My dad and my brother enjoyed the OCC show for many years, but I never actually believed those bikes could run for more than the straight stretch of service access roads they always showed them ride them on.
The company I worked for spent $400,000 for a Orange County Chopper advertising package. It was not worth it. We got a nice looking bike that wasn't even street legal. A few T-shirts, and 45 seconds on the program. We also gave them custom build spraybooth. We were promised advertising about our facility. When we complained we were told that OCC didn't have control of the program.. We spend a years worth of advertising for 45 seconds of them presenting the bike to our owner.
Sounds like your boss is a gullible guy 😆
Didn't he at least watch one episode? Everybody knows this was all a scam
@@h.g.buddneI don't disagree. I finally quit that business even though I was the only electrical designer and programmer. Later he hired a young guy that restructured our pricing and company model and things went down fast. He wound up alienating our biggest customer.
On discovery channel? You got a good deal. Not a commercial, but a 45 second spot on a mainstream tv show? That’s great advertisement. No offense but you got your moneys worth.
@@kregadeth5562I don't agree. It's not even a tiny bit of what we were promised. The only mention of the company I worked for was them presenting the bike to the owner. Not a thing about the company itself or the custom spray booth we built for OCC. They originally told us they would include shots of them using the spray booth to paint the bike. We erected the booth in our shop and they filmed the painting. Then we moved the booth to their shop. Not one second of any of this was shown. We paid $400,000 and the bike was crap.
No wonder OCC has been hemorrhaging money and selling stuff for years.
The first bike I rebuilt, was a 1973 cb750 sohc from a military guy in Virginia. After 10 years I sold it on ebay to a guy in Florida. By CHANCE! Sold it to the son of the guy I bought it from.
fawk! that's a serious synchronicity!
same stock look ? his son probably on the look out for the same bike , lol
What a trip
It seemed that a ton of their business was from companies who would commission them to build a bike, not for actual use, but as a showcase. The company I worked for at the time, Schneider Electric did that, and it was a way to gain marketing clout at the time, especially with our distributors. The bike was flown all over the place just to show next to the booth at trade shows.
I bought my son his first electric guitar OCC branded. Neck cracked unprovokedly days after😂
I was half expecting it to be cursed object, such that once it was in the shop getting serviced, everybody might start getting confrontational and throwing chairs around.
Exactly!!! 😆😆😆👍👍👍👍😆😆😆😆
This comment wins the day 😂
What a small world with the guy who actually worked on this bike 🤯
that’s honestly really cool that your neighbor did all the work on that bike. Thats really got to feel nostalgic for him❤
He didn't do ALL the work.
dude if you see a fuel line that has loose stuff in it, you HAVE to disassemble the engine and everything that was in contactvwith the fuel. then clean, the rebuild with qctual fuel lines. never try to start
Amen brother...its amazing how the real builder of the motor was your new neighbor..Im sure with some brainstorming and some liquid encouragement....All will be fine...
I doubt liquid encouragement will be involved, if he's reciting Bible verses. Maybe I'm wrong. I never watch this channel.
Think about the hours and hours of research time he didn’t have to spend just by him being his neighbor. The ignition and starting alone.
I'm from orange county NY and before these guys went commercial and started mass producing bikes, they had some very good very well built machines. Their downfall was going the route they did. They had so much respect for their builds before the gimmicks and shenanigans.
I still enjoyed their shows....these bikes are really art pieces more than bikes...the creative spirit of these bikes is what the whole point was....plus making money...LOL...
@@steves3688 yea people don't seem to understand that they decided they would make a lot of money creating advertising that had motorcycle components.....it was unfortunate that they had the personal drama that they did and that it was real, but there are a lot of people in the USA that have worked in family businesses that can relate to that as well.....especially ones that had a wild period of growth because of the opposing talents and drives of two different generations....that ended up having a lot of appeal and viewership too
Discovery ruined a lot.
Why not add a back for the seat & reachable handle bars so you could go full throttle to stay on? I wanna know how fast it can go!
EDOX makes nice quallity watches. That one is a limited edition, only 113 made. Probably worth about 2000-2500 usd.
Jay Leno and a guest (can’t remember who), both have OCC’s and bashed just how shitty they are. They’re made so cheaply and just thrown together. The one example had everything electrically important, wired with the rear taillight.
I highly doubt that what I watch Paul Jr design and build is cheap let alone not done well... are the worth 150k no but they are Def not made cheap
Paul Snr made a UA-cam video responding to Jay Leno's allegations.
Living in Finland , Even I heard Jay Leno Trash the bike custom built for him.
They’re show bikes. Duh. You didn’t realize that ??
@orangemanbad well that's not what Leno said. He paid for a custom bike, so he could ride it. That's not some Corporate Show bike as in this clip or for eg. The Gillette bike. Those are show bikes. And don't they show the bikes being riden by the Orange CC show people?
Hey Bikes and Beards...jaf here from the Philippines big fan of your work... Y'all have an awesome year!
What is the new GoPro you are using? I want to get one and thought you said it was the GoPro ace pro but can only find the hero 11
Edox watches are excellent pieces. They're known for their ability to keep accurate time even when the springs are losing tension. I'd keep it, it's worth a couple thousand on it's own.
This is the coolest video I’ve seen in a while, great bike, it’s amazing the neighbor saw the bike and had the personal connection with it. Keep rockin 🤙🏾
The OCC Dixie Chopper bike was built by a friend of mine and his dad in Indianapolis. They were friends with the people who owned or worked for Dixie Chopper.
Lmao sure
LIAR
Even having to do the work to get it running, for 10K it's still a great deal. Even though it's a death trap it's still cool to have the whole rig and right next door to the guy that built much of it and knows it's history.
Occ shopped out everything. They basically put them together when they got the parts in. Later they started to make stuff but it was small crap
I'm so satisfied that people are calling these bikes out. The show was cool for the drama, but the bikes were never practical. Jay Leno was the man to just say no. He owns one I believe, but he just says no. Haha
NOOOO! Gotta see the finale, lol. What a wild story. The guy next door, the gifts included in the trailer, the problems, lol. I half expected the box to hold another fuel pump, lol. Looking forward to the next installment. God bless!
I thought that too -- a box of random parts from the previous guy who tried to get it running 🤣
My favorite was the Snap-on bike OC built. They basically welded some wrenches, ratchets, saw blades, and screw drivers onto the bike. A 7 year old could come up with that idea. Total fail.
😂😂😂😂😂
In all fairness, even though I'm not a fan of theirs, OCC are just fabricators, not mechanics. That's the first impression I got from them cos in all episodes, they buy stuff from other suppliers, but what they're really building are just the frame, and everything else, except the engine.
10G is a steal. If i had a used motorcycle dealership and could put this on my showroom, i'd do it in a heartbeat. And you got a nice watch and a good trailer!
Even if it won't run right, as a piece of art, it's worth it.
the trailer, used and empty, is worth nearly that.
why would you NOT have the guy next door that built it there when you were trying to get it running,,,
I bet he knows a ton of shortcuts you never thought of ...
I'd have used a pinch bar and s fulcrum to lift the platform and put PVC pipes under it and as they rolled out just keep recirculating the pipes...
Thanks! I bought a Yellow county shopper instead of the orange one.
This is awesome you found the one guy who knows so much about it. keep up the fun vids cheers.
“Knock knock - who is it ? “
“The guy who was just in there setting up a camera”
😂
The yanks just can't help themselves
Indeed, that was pretty contrived.
How it has not become a trophy is beyond me. It's everywhere* trophe.@@kingcosworth2643
@@kingcosworth2643some people just want to believe. This guy knows what he’s doin and excels at it. Every fib is laced w/the right balance of supposedly being true while also being unbelievable, in order to spark an endless debate promoting activity to go toward reaching the endgoal; entertainment that makes money.
For anyone interested, Edox is a relatively small but respected family-owned Swiss watch maker.
The case says "Watch manufacturer - Geneva since 1884".
I know a guy who has an OC choppers bike and he said the same thing about how it feel like you’re going to slide off of it. Also bought it for $3000 and can’t get rid of it. Seems like lots of people know about how crappy those bikes are