Easy Rider and Chopperguy
Thoughts on Easy Rider, biker cinema, and riding and working on a vintage chopper.Thursday, November 24, 2005
Choppers, Bobbers, and Customs
Choppers are stripped down motorcycles with long front ends like Captain America.
Bobbers are stripped down motorcycles with nearly stock front ends like the Billy Bike.
Choppers and Bobbers are Customs.
Custom bikes may have long front ends, but that doesn't make them a Chopper. WCC and OCC make nifty custom bikes, sometimes they even build a Chopper. But mostly they build customs INFLUENCED by choppers.
I wouldn't hound on this topic if it weren't for owning a chopper. Customs are pretty. Choppers and Bobbers are a process, a state of mind, an exercise in minimalism, maybe even a zen path to enlightenment.
It's like those people with SUV's who call them trucks. SUV's have an enclosed cab all the way to the rear and are for hauling stuff. Trucks have a big open bed and are for hauling shit. Would you want half a ton of cow shit dumped in your Suburban?
Ain't semantics a bitch?
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