That was a bust...
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That was a bust...
Went to LA for the big Born Free custom bike show I've been hearing about for years. Was looking forward to see what the shovel crowd represented with. Disclaimer, the LA bike scene is an animal all it's own, nothing like the rest of California much less the rest of the country. There were some decent custom builds with real ingenuity and creativity if you looked long enough, even fewer stock machines and sweet Jesus the popular cult chopper look they run with is total clown show.
We won't get into the Dyna bro SOA clones down to the baggy too short pants and Van tennis shoes everywhere.
Come to the realization I'm a dinosaur by LA metrics, hell the shirt I was wearing was older than most the crowd. Testosterone is in seriously short supply in white males down there.
We won't get into the Dyna bro SOA clones down to the baggy too short pants and Van tennis shoes everywhere.
Come to the realization I'm a dinosaur by LA metrics, hell the shirt I was wearing was older than most the crowd. Testosterone is in seriously short supply in white males down there.
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They just don't know. Wish I could take them all back in time to the late 70's-early 80's and visit the Mom and Pop dealerships, the Independents, the every weekend poker runs and party that lasted into the next day and some pretty decent bikes we built with VERY little money....and we were all in our 20's and 30's.
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I've never understood the SOA bars... They block the view of the road.. Short T bars are nice on a softtail or rigid. If you want higher go to apes or even Z bars. Personally on a Dyna, I like the stock bars on my FXDX. Down here in San Diego, the SOA setup is real popular.. You'll get a group of guys where almost all use the SOA bar setup.
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I've never understood the SOA bars... They block the view of the road.. Short T bars are nice on a softtail or rigid. If you want higher go to apes or even Z bars. Personally on a Dyna, I like the stock bars on my FXDX. Down here in San Diego, the SOA setup is real popular.. You'll get a group of guys where almost all use the SOA bar setup.
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Oh yeah S&S had a booth and at first glance looked vintage as hell, fake aging and all, average guy wouldn't know what they were looking at.
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Didn't do many pictures I'm no talent fool with that and I just wasn't feeling it. The DynaBro clones were thick, now I know why I couldn't a reasonable FXR back when I was hunting, they all went to LA and them boys sucked the stereotype down a $2 hooker jonesing for a fix. Only thing varied on them or the bike were the colors, the all shop at the same uniform store.
Did a thread on ths with a bit more content over in Off Topic.
Did a thread on ths with a bit more content over in Off Topic.
Last edited by TwiZted Biker; Jun 23, 2025 at 04:23 PM.