Harley chopper
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Considering the price that is currently being floated around, it's probably cheaper to buy a chopper and turn it into an electric bike.
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From: Gettysburg, PA (For Now)
Untrue...
Wee bit of difference between riding something that was somebody's vision with some heart & soul put into it verses a cookie cutter clone dropped off the end of a mass production line. Do believe that was the root of the man's comment. Some of us been doing this **** far longer than most in here, we tend to have different view of things from the days when it was real and not a weekend getaway illusion.
It's the same crap as some here like him that say 'if you trailer a bike, you're not a real biker', yuck, yuck...
Every bike is someone's vision, even mass produced bikes have a designer who envisions, then puts to paper his own ideas on what it's to transform into.
I've been doing this as long as 'us' have too, maybe even longer.
Every bike I ever owned was hard earned, I was a kid in the late '60s and '70s, every biker I knew personally even a couple of 1 %ers built their bikes in the style of the times because they didn't have a pot to **** in or a window to throw it out of, they had to beg, borrow or steal every single part they needed to get a working bike going but I know for a fact if they have had the money to get a brand new 'cookie cutter' clone they would have done so in a second...
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From: Whiskey Falls, Texas
I'm not buying it, his comments are that of a bullshit artist with an egotistical personality.
It's the same crap as some here like him that say 'if you trailer a bike, you're not a real biker', yuck, yuck...
Every bike is someone's vision, even mass produced bikes have a designer who envisions, then puts to paper his own ideas on what it's to transform into.
I've been doing this as long as 'us' have too, maybe even longer.
Every bike I ever owned was hard earned, I was a kid in the late '60s and '70s, every biker I knew personally even a couple of 1 %ers built their bikes in the style of the times because they didn't have a pot to **** in or a window to throw it out of, they had to beg, borrow or steal every single part they needed to get a working bike going but I know for a fact if they have had the money to get a brand new 'cookie cutter' clone they would have done so in a second...
It's the same crap as some here like him that say 'if you trailer a bike, you're not a real biker', yuck, yuck...
Every bike is someone's vision, even mass produced bikes have a designer who envisions, then puts to paper his own ideas on what it's to transform into.
I've been doing this as long as 'us' have too, maybe even longer.
Every bike I ever owned was hard earned, I was a kid in the late '60s and '70s, every biker I knew personally even a couple of 1 %ers built their bikes in the style of the times because they didn't have a pot to **** in or a window to throw it out of, they had to beg, borrow or steal every single part they needed to get a working bike going but I know for a fact if they have had the money to get a brand new 'cookie cutter' clone they would have done so in a second...
I wouldn't get too hysterical over it, or what other people ride or build....He's an older cat set in his ways...kinda like you, me, and a few others...LOL...
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From: Niles Canyon Ca.
I'm not buying it, his comments are that of a bullshit artist with an egotistical personality.
It's the same crap as some here like him that say 'if you trailer a bike, you're not a real biker', yuck, yuck...
Every bike is someone's vision, even mass produced bikes have a designer who envisions, then puts to paper his own ideas on what it's to transform into.
I've been doing this as long as 'us' have too, maybe even longer.
Every bike I ever owned was hard earned, I was a kid in the late '60s and '70s, every biker I knew personally even a couple of 1 %ers built their bikes in the style of the times because they didn't have a pot to **** in or a window to throw it out of, they had to beg, borrow or steal every single part they needed to get a working bike going but I know for a fact if they have had the money to get a brand new 'cookie cutter' clone they would have done so in a second...
It's the same crap as some here like him that say 'if you trailer a bike, you're not a real biker', yuck, yuck...
Every bike is someone's vision, even mass produced bikes have a designer who envisions, then puts to paper his own ideas on what it's to transform into.
I've been doing this as long as 'us' have too, maybe even longer.
Every bike I ever owned was hard earned, I was a kid in the late '60s and '70s, every biker I knew personally even a couple of 1 %ers built their bikes in the style of the times because they didn't have a pot to **** in or a window to throw it out of, they had to beg, borrow or steal every single part they needed to get a working bike going but I know for a fact if they have had the money to get a brand new 'cookie cutter' clone they would have done so in a second...
Buy and ride what you want it is America after all just don't expect everyone to see it the same way you do. One last thing you must have grown up in a very different area than I did, building your own was what we aspired to when I started riding, by the mid 70's when I had progressed to long bikes it was a lifestyle. Sure some guys still bought new stock bikes but without exception they all eventually started changing them, I chopped or help chop a lot of motorcycles those days, all brands not just harleys. Swap meets you lived for, as much for the social aspect as parts hunting, made a living at that for a couple years.
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From: Gettysburg, PA (For Now)
Just Chiming In...
I had some wise *** dirtbag tell me exactly that when I was considering buying one of them 'cookie cutter' choppers from BigDog, I would have bought it had it not been for Carl's Speed Shop (Daytona), tried to rip me on my trade-in.
The guy with the long black robe and death sickle is coming for all of us, buy and enjoy what you like, f'k what anybody else deems to be 'genuine' or not...
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Hahaha......146 posts.....arguing about choppers. Built a few through the years....would NEVER buy a factory one. Some people don't have the skills to build one and that's okay with me....rubs have always existed. We just look at them and snicker.
Last edited by Mountainkowboy; Mar 9, 2019 at 03:29 PM.
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From: Kansas
How do you install an FXR/FLT motor/trans in a rigid frame? I mean, what is gained? The FXR/FLT by design incorporates a rubber front mount into an attached swingarm that's mounted into a frame with a cleve-bloc on each side. The bike is then aligned with the top mount heim adjuster and the front heim adjustment....wouldnt you then simply be defeating the purpose of an isolated rubber mounted motor/trans??? Asking for a friend.....
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From: Gettysburg, PA (For Now)
Envious Much?
Hahaha......146 posts.....arguing about choppers. Built a few through the years....would NEVER buy a factory one. Some people don't have the skills to build one and that's okay with me....rubs have always existed. We just look at them and snicker.
In your dreams...
In your dreams...Wash your ***, shave and get a hair cut, the '60s are over pal.
If being on the ***** of your *** financially your entire life, being a parasite to all of society, having no personal hygiene, and a criminal record as long as your arm is what qualifies in your assessment as being a 'real' biker, I'm sure the rest of us are more than content to be as we are, thanks...
