How Do You Like Your Chopper?
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From: Wellsboro, PA
How Do You Like Your Chopper?
I've always wanted one --- like a Big Dog Ridgeback or a Bourget, or something stretched out like that. Can you ride all day with your buddies (with a few stops, of course) or do you have to stop & stretch every 40 miles?
I'm fortunate that I can afford one, but I can't bring myself to do it yet! Maybe if I found one that was a repo & could take over the payments, or something like that, I might do it.
I'm fortunate that I can afford one, but I can't bring myself to do it yet! Maybe if I found one that was a repo & could take over the payments, or something like that, I might do it.
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From: South Florida
They are great to look at but thats about it, several of my friends HAD them and they all ended up selling them and taking big hits. They are cool to go to poser night thats about it.....let alone how un reliable they are...
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From: Woodinville, WA
Start with a Panhead - go from there. Building one around a late model engine isn't keeping it real.
Also since you really can't ride a real chopper any serious distance building the bike yourself is half the fun of it (so I've been told - I'll get around to it one of these days!)
Also since you really can't ride a real chopper any serious distance building the bike yourself is half the fun of it (so I've been told - I'll get around to it one of these days!)
Last edited by davessworks; Nov 1, 2009 at 08:31 PM.
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From: Manassas, VA
Check craigslist. There are always a bunch of them on there with about 2500 - 3500 miles for less than 1/2 the cost of new. I have not ridden one myself, but have been told by others, they are not much fun to ride. Not very comfortable. But, you will look cool.
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From: Southern Ohio
Got a friend who traded his Road King in for an American Ironhorse Texas Chopper last year...he used to ride regularly with us, but after putting in about 50 miles for the first time, he was cryin' like a baby...said if we were going out of town from now on, count him out...
And he'd sell the thing in a heartbeat if he could get a reasonable offer...the market on those things has flatlined around here...
And he'd sell the thing in a heartbeat if he could get a reasonable offer...the market on those things has flatlined around here...
Last edited by *NIGHT TRAIN*; Nov 2, 2009 at 12:42 AM.
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Indeed - so true it's not funny.
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I had a friend that bought one and was so disappointed with the ride that he let if go for about half price with less than three thousand miles on it. Another guy built his own and when he finished it he and his wife hopped on it for a ride to San Diego. It was only thirty miles but she took a taxi home. He sold it for what he was in it for parts. Are you getting the picture yet? I rode to Laughlin for the River Run in 2000 and talked with a guy that rode a Big Dog from Phoenix. He was trying to figure out how to get an extra day for the ride back home. It was really nice looking though. Those guys really made me appreciate what Harley builds.