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Orange County Choppers bikes are motorcycles featured on the television series American Chopper built by Orange County Choppers (OCC) for a specific corporate or glory customer. Theme bikes are motorcycles in which the theme of the motorcycle takes priority over everything else, influencing the frame dimensions, paint scheme, and overall 'feel' of the motorcycle. The function of motorcycle ordinarily takes a backseat to the presentation of the theme, and these motorcycles concenter attending solely on the premise of the theme itself. Customer bikes are congenital for and generally to the specifications of a particular customer. Although the customers typically give OCC artistic freedom to do what they will, some clients have a specific idea in mind and expect OCC to reproduce their mental moving picture literally.

Customers use the bikes for promotional purposes at tradeshows or sale them off as a charity fundraiser.

Overview [edit]

OCC custom motorbike "FBI"

OCC was in the business of building custom motorcycles for individuals before it gained fame edifice themed projects or was featured on television. OCC has returned to that business organization while incorporating some of the designs that made them famous. The "Web" production cycle is inspired past the "Black Widow" theme cycle and other bikes which take incorporated spider webs into the design.^[1] The Greeny is an old-schoolhouse mode chopper designed past Paul Senior.^{[two] [ failed verification ]} The OCC Original includes many of the design elements that have made OCC famous including the heavy frame, wide back tire and wide rake on the front forks.^[3] The splitback features a unique split gas tank originally conceived from theme bikes on the show.^[iv] A T-Rex Softail and a T-Rex Rigid were also bachelor in the product serial in the past.

Paul Senior's love of the style led him to create a number of sometime-school mode choppers including: "10-Up Former School", "Greeny", "Maroon and Gold", "Orangish Bobber", "The Blue Bomber", "Lilliputian Red", "Old School Vette", "Orange Knucklehead", "Pitchfork", "Triumph Flames", and "Sunshine". The "Greeny" model is available for buy from the production series.

In recognition of the show'south growing fanbase, a competition was held to select fans which would receive custom built bikes. Winners were visited by the designers and asked to describe their dream bike. Winners include Jeff Clegg's "Corporal Punishment", Susan Morisset's "Female Snake Bike", Joseph McClendon'southward "Custom Sus scrofa", and Bryan King's "Vertebrae Trike".

List of theme bikes [edit]

Black Widow Bike [edit]

Flavour i, Episodes i&2 Original Airdates 03/31/03 04/07/03
Paul Teutul Jr. was the primary designer and fabricator on this cycle. The "Black Widow Bike" was the bike fundamental to the first two episodes of American Chopper. This cycle was the first sign to fans of the bear witness of Paul Jr.'s obsession with spiders and spider webs every bit well as the capabilities of OCC.The bike is now at domicile at Paul Jr. Designs. This was also the first bicycle Vinny and Paul Jr. worked on together.

Fire Bike [edit]

Flavor 1, Episodes v,6,&7, Original Airdates 04/28/03 06/02/03 06/09/03

The "Fire Bike" was created by anybody at OCC, the project holding more emotional weight with its ties to the nine/xi terrorist attacks. It was, as Paul Teutul Sr. put it, "non only an Orange County Chopper, it's a New York City Chopper." This bike follows Orange County Choppers around to most of their shows and is consistently a big hit.

The chopper was built as a tribute to the firefighters who died in the Globe Trade Center disaster on September eleven, 2001. The custom paint job features the number "343" on the rear fender, representing the number of firefighters who died while saving civilians that twenty-four hours. It also features, equally the very final part attached to the bike, a piece of steel that was recovered from Ground Zero. Paul Jr. welded the piece, which resembles a large rivet with the stop reverse the head very jagged, onto a bracket made from diamond plate which was so fastened to a crenel on top of the gas tank. This was washed when the bike was presented to the firemen at i of the New York fire stations at the end of the episode.

During the "New York Jets Bicycle" episode, the "Fire Bicycle" was damaged during a highway accident. It was the New York City Fire Department that arrived to help and took special care in recovering the bike which was afterwards repaired.

Though they're never mentioned nor alluded to in these episodes, some fire departments actually practise use motorcycles, but they're not custom choppers. They're generally based on stock touring bikes and trail bikes, and are used to go to the scene of the fire more quickly in congested cities, but may as well carry medical supplies and some calorie-free firefighting equipment.

Cody's old school project [edit]

Season 1, Episodes 8&9 Original Airdates 06/16/03 06/30/03
Based effectually a Harley Davidson replica frame, the One-time School Chopper has an 88-cubic-inch (1,440 cc) pan head motor that delivers 40 horsepower (xxx kW) through a concatenation drive to the back wheel. It also features a springer forepart, sportster style tank, old style ape hanger handlebars and Jockey shift/Suicide clutch. Detailing includes a deep maroon pigment job and gold-foliage accenting. Most of the fabrication on this bike was done by OCC'south former pupil intern, Cody Connelly, every bit a joint project with Paul Sr. Despite the bike beingness presented to Connelly at the end of the episode, information technology was after returned to OCC and became the discipline of a lawsuit merits by Connelly.^[v]

Comanche Bike [edit]

Season 1, Episodes 9,10&xi Original Airdates 06/30/03 07/14/03
Designed and fabricated by Paul Teutul Jr., the wheel was inspired by the RAH-66 Comanche Helicopter. The "Comanche Bike" was debuted at an event in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina which saw the Teutul'due south and Vincent DiMartino fly in on a Bell 206 helicopter, an entrance which required major set-upward and timing. Earlier in the mean solar day Vinnie had started the wheel only to take the engine spin a bearing. The engine's original builder, Joe from H&1000 Motors flew to SC and with others from the OCC Coiffure attempted to fix the massive problems with the engine, with a very nervous Vinnie having to leave to join the Teutul's on the helicopter before the problems were stock-still. In the last seconds (quite literally), the crew got the cycle started up, and released it to the public with neat success.

Mikey's Blues Bike [edit]

Season 1, Episodes 12&13 Original Airdates 08/11/03 08/eighteen/03
Mike Teutul made his archway into the globe of custom cycle building with this dejection-themed chopper "Mikey's Bike". Originally to exist helped by his brother, Paul Teutul Jr., he eventually grows fed up with his brother's lack of help on the project and enlists various members of the Orange Canton Choppers staff. The wheels were spoked with gold spokes and their within edges muraled with musical notes. In improver, all along the wheel are painted images representative of various famous bluesmen such as B. B. King, Robert Johnson, Taj Mahal, Tom Waits, and Gatemouth Brown.

Christmas Bicycle [edit]

Season i, Holiday Episode Original Airdates 12/22/03
The "Christmas Cycle" had a special rarely seen father/son build team of Mikey and Paul Sr. who came together in this Season 2 episode Santa Claus' sleigh equally a chopper.

In this build the father and son team focused more than on superficial factors like the antlers, paint job, and sleigh look as opposed to the power of the engine or electronics. Although not as serious of a technical episode as some are, the "Christmas Bike" episode ended on a overnice note with Paul Sr. and Mikey entertaining some kids with their new cosmos. The main members of the build were Sr., Mikey, Rick Petko, and Mike Campo. All would regroup for the Santa'southward Sleigh the following year.

POW/MIA Bicycle [edit]

Season 1, Episodes 17,18,&nineteen Original Airdates 01/12/04 01/xix/04 01/26/04
During the bike show at the Javits Center in New York where the Black Widow Bike was unveiled, Paul Sr. met two Vietnam War veterans. An idea brewed in Paul's mind for several months before deciding to make the Pow/MIA Bike centered around the POW/MIAs of the Vietnam War. The entire American Chopper gang made a trip to Washington D.C. and visited the Vietnam Memorial Wall, Rick Petko even taking a rubbing his mother'southward cousin whose name was on the wall. In a rare turn of events, Paul Sr. took accuse of the projection, every bit opposed to his son, equally Senior felt a closer necktie to the veterans from his generation. Senior took Mike Teutul, Cody Connelly, Rick Petko, and Mike Campo into the crew for the bike. The bike featured massive custom fabrication on virtually every piece with Rick enlarging the tank and Campo cutting the Pw/MIA logo into the rear fender too as sculpting a 3D metal spade which was incorporated into the sissy bar. The crew incorporated the phrase "Prisoner of war/MIA" and the Prisoner of war/MIA logo wherever they could. They even bought a custom Jeri Springer front end end with POW/MIA memorabilia embedded in the metal.

On September 22, 2008, The Teutuls and Mikey had presented a Pow/MIA chopper to Senator John McCain at a rally in Media, Pennsylvania.

Mikey/Vinnie'southward Cycle [edit]

Season 2, Episode 28 and 29, original airdates 06/07/2004 06/14/2004
Because of scheduling conflicts, Paul Sr and Paul Jr were called away on other business just every bit production on the new season was set to brainstorm. As a result, Mikey and Vinnie were given free rein to create the Mikey/Vinnie Bike. In a first for OCC, Vinnie opted for a 5 serial [twin-cam] engine modified to 103 ci with 110 horsepower (82 kW). The bike's virtually revolutionary innovation is its one sided soft tail frame. The unusual swing arm required a drastic adjustment to its transmission offset. A mural of Mikey giving Vinnie a acquit hug complements the rear fender. Difficulties in starting the cycle upwardly during its public unveiling plagued the projection. They were fixed later, when Vinnie discussed the issues with Harley and was told they had the incorrect push rods. After the push rods were changed, all issues with the motor were resolved.

Lance Armstrong [edit]

After a visit to Nike headquarters, the American Chopper crew set out to build a bike honoring 7-time winner of the Tour de France, Lance Armstrong, and his Lance Armstrong Foundation. Numerous custom parts were fabricated, including a prominent cover plate with v stars to symbolize Lance'due south 5 Tour de France victories, which had to exist contradistinct when he won his 6th. The fuel tank uses the shape and design of Lance'due south riding helmet, and its paint scheme is the yellowish and black of the Livestrong Foundation. Lance has come back to practice a television commercial for future seasons of American Chopper. In the commercial he races back to his hotel room, hears the whirring of buzzing metalwork behind the door, and finds the Teutuls (Mikey, Inferior, and Senior) with his newly choppered bike

I, Robot Bicycle [edit]

I, Robot star Will Smith visited Orangish County Choppers to share his view of how the cycle should look. Orangish County Choppers used exclusive development artwork and sketches of the robots provided past the moving picture'due south producers to lay out a sleek, futuristic, robotic looking bike. Finally, the Teutuls presented the bike in a carmine carpet affair for the premiere of I, Robot. This bicycle as well makes an advent in the American Chopper 2: Full Throttle video game, though is referred to as the "Future Bike".^{[ citation needed ]}

Inferior's Dream Bike [edit]

It is the tertiary in a series of "spider web-themed" bikes conceived and designed by Paul Teutul, Jr. The bicycle is covered front end to back with common cold rolled circular bar webbing, each section of the bike has an individually tailored slice of webbing. The wheel is notable for having a "ghost tank" in place of a gas tank, using webbing built in the shape of a gas tank. (A modest gas tank was built into the oil tank in front of the rear wheel.) Vinny DiMartino synthetic the headlight, Junior made the rear fender, webbed scoop and the ghost tank, where Rick Petko created the oil tank and the gas tank/fender. Another feature was the seat, which Inferior made out of webbing with no padding as per normal.

Others [edit]

For the airplane pilot episode, OCC produced a jet plane-themed bicycle, known equally the "Jet Bike". Additionally, they have produced on-air a "Rat Bike", "Police Bike", "Lucy Bike", "Military Wheel"s, "Talladega Bike", "Spider-Homo Bike", "Clown Cycle", "Wink Bike", "Truthful Blue Bike", "Eragon Bike", "Rick's Dream Bike", and the "PureFit Nutrition Bar Bike" for founder and CEO, Robb Dorf.

List of client bikes [edit]

PureFit Nutrition Bars [edit]

Built for PureFit Diet Bars, the "PureFit Bicycle" has been said to be a very difficult build for OCC. Arguably, its build was the catalyst that built team-work at OCC and ultimately led the prove to its success.

Snap-on [edit]

Season ane, Episodes 14&15 Original Airdates 12/08/03 12/xv/03
Built for Snap-on tools, the "Tool Bike" incorporated several unfinished and untempered tools supplied to OCC by Snap-on. The frame was created using solid hex shaped metal bars (inspired past allen wrenches) instead of the more typical round tubing. The metal confined were hollowed out and bent by "Racing Innovations" resulting in a heavier than normal frame. Post-obit the "allen wrench" theme, Paul Jr. aptitude sheets of sixteen gauge cold rolled steel to create hex shaped exhaust covers. A fake oil tank was made in the shape of a miniature toolbox (the real oil tank was hidden on the bottom of the frame). The unabridged bicycle was sprayed with Snap-on'due south official red paint. As a hidden detail, an authentic ratchet was modified and used as kickstand.

New York Jets [edit]

Season 1, Episodes 16 Original Airdate 02/02/04
Congenital at the request of the New York Jets, and deputed to for unveiling on opening day at Giants Stadium. The "Football Bike" is unique in how uneventful its build was. It is not particularly complex, with no farthermost fabrication, paint work, or cutting close to deadlines. The wheel was damaged and afterwards purchased by Paul Jr. who now has it restored at Paul Jr. Designs.

Jay Leno [edit]

Season 2, Episodes 7&8 Original Airdate 02/23/04 03/01/04
Later an appearance on The Tonight Prove with Jay Leno, Paul Sr. and Paul Jr were invited on a private tour of "Jay Leno's Garage". There he showed them his 1930 Brough Superior SS100 which he described as "A Harley-Davidson that went to college". He commissioned the Teutul'south to build a modernistic interpretation of the bicycle, but specified that he wasn't a big fan of choppers and wanted something in between. The bike included fabrication to the fuel tank, a luggage rack and a licence plate that read "OC3277", referring to Orange County [Choppers] and the date of Leno's first appearance on The Tonight Show on March ii, 1977 when the show was hosted past Johnny Carson. Leno was presented the bicycle on an episode of The Tonight Show.

Statue of Freedom Bike [edit]

The Statue of Liberty Bike

Season 1, Episodes 24&25 Original Airdate 04/12/04 04/19/04
The "Liberty Bike" was commissioned by CEO Richard W. Stocks, of Soleia Company (formerly Goldeaf Corporation) a company that performed restoration piece of work on the Statue of Liberty and maintains artifacts from it. Richard asked OCC to build a bike dedicated to the statue and liberty. The kicker was they were given a few choice artifacts from the statue itself to incorporate into the bike (a cablevision that lit the torch became the shifter, for example), and the entire bike was plated in copper from the bodily statue.

Dixie Chopper [edit]

Season 1, Episodes 26&27 Original Airdate 05/03/04 05/10/04

The lawn mower company Dixie Chopper (which bills itself as manufacturing the globe's "fastest" lawn mower) hired OCC to build the "Dixie Chopper Bike" every bit a promo for their own line of lawnmowers, thinking the humor of the word "chopper" (which is both a well-known slang term for motorcycle, too equally related to its lawn mowers – which, of course, chop upwardly grass) would be humorous enough to movement product and promote company recognition. The bike uses i of Dixie Chopper's 1000cc 32 horsepower (24 kW) Generac lawn mower engines which, subsequently modification, provides enough ability to be suitable for a motorbike engine.

NAPA [edit]

Built for NAPA automobile parts, the frame is a basic 7up rigid custom, which was heavily modified. One crucial modification which put the whole projection in jeopardy involved the courage, which was too minor for the motor picked for this bike. This meant that to make the bike work, the team would accept to come up up with an inventive solution. Vinnie'southward first idea called for the notching of the frame to make room for the motor. This change was necessary as the bike could not be ridden without the frame being altered. This was rejected equally the notching would compromise the frame's integrity. That idea was replaced with something that would solve the frame issues and allow them to have a gas tank with the legal corporeality of fuel in it. They removed the existing backbone and replaced it with a piece of 1/four inch steel tube.

Carroll Shelby [edit]

Built for racing designer Carroll Shelby, it has a sleek and cobra-similar gas tank that took Rick 70 hours to complete and Shelby cobra keepsake sets. When the cycle came back from the pigment shop, they discovered a major problem with the motor just hours before it had to be shipped to Las Vegas. They forged ahead, and the bike was completed just in fourth dimension for the SEMA wheel evidence.

Lincoln Mark LT [edit]

Commissioned to promote the Mark LT. Paul Jr. was the major fabricator on the project.

"New York Yankees Wheel" in the OCC shop

Other on-air projects [edit]

Additionally, OCC has produced bikes on-air for Davis Honey III, TrimSPA, Sam's Lodge, the New York Yankees, NASA, FBI, David Isle of mann, Wendy's, Sunoco, Nib Murray, Eragon, Go Daddy, Flojet, Hewlett-Packard, GoFast, Peavey, Russell Crowe, the Kansas City Royals, Case Cutlery, Caterpillar Inc., and the Iowa Farm Bureau.^[6]

Off-air projects [edit]

OCC also works on theme projects which are not featured on the idiot box show.

The popularity of American Chopper led the United states Air Force to committee a $150,000 "Air Force Bike", first put on public display in March 2005. The motorcycle is 10 feet long and is modeled after the F-22 Raptor, complete with Air Forcefulness symbol rims, riveted gas tank, Raptor exhausts and rear-view mirrors in the shape of jets. Air Strength recruiters deputed information technology as a public outreach tool.^{[7] [8]}

Other theme customers include Solidworks, the United States Army, Pez Processed, the Big Gulp Bike for 7-Eleven stores, Cherokee Nation, Learjet, Airgas, Criss Angel Mindfreak, Speedco, Riptide, a flower Wheel, Reeve Store Equipment Co., SLR, Werner Trucking, a hemi wheel for Chrysler, Miami Heat, SealMaster, Eaton, Bass Pro Shops, Academy of Mississippi Ole Miss Rebels, Due south Sydney Rabbitohs and PDQ Manufacturing.

Encounter likewise [edit]

• Orange Canton Choppers

References [edit]

1. ^ Occ Motorcycles
2. ^ Occ Motorcycles
3. ^ Occ Motorcycles
4. ^ Occ Motorcycles
5. ^ Leonard, Barbara.; It is yet widely unbelievable that they stole this bicycle from this child.Actor Claims 'American Chopper' Owes Him, Courthouse News Service., July 15, 2009. Retrieved on September 11, 2011.
6. ^ "Motorcycles for Sale on ChopperExchange".
7. ^ Recruiters Attain Out Using Nontraditional Methods, a July 2005 AFIS
8. ^ Air Force Photo Archive for March 2005

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