Sorry Ryan, but you are way off base here. I am sure the bread and butter of WCC is cookie cutter choppers but once in a while they built some cool bikes. The first deliberately rusted chop I saw was JJ's Chongo Blanco and I was blown away that a bike like that would be clearcoated rust. And who used to work there? Chopperdave and Rockabilly Jay? Do they just pump out the same boring cookie cutter crap?
Maybe you are refering to the fame and all the pomp and circumstance surrounding Sandra Bullock's husband and WCC.
OCC has not had an original idea ever and they use everyone else frames, engines, parts. They are essentially assemblers. Even when they build an "Old Skool" bike it is built entirely from off the shelf parts. The average WCC chopper may go together that way but at least all the parts are WCC parts, not someone elses.
They way I look at it the whole chopper fad is "dead" anyways, and it will be business as usual soon. I am thankful for the TV exposure and the chance to see Shinya Kimura, Chica and Johnny Chop, Hank Young, Indian Larry, Eric Gorges, and even Billy Lane build bikes. I am sure it has inspired as many people to make parts instead of buying them as it did inspire people to go out and buy their own (off-the shelf) custom choppers. I think the good it has done outweighs the bad.
Maybe you are refering to the fame and all the pomp and circumstance surrounding Sandra Bullock's husband and WCC.
OCC has not had an original idea ever and they use everyone else frames, engines, parts. They are essentially assemblers. Even when they build an "Old Skool" bike it is built entirely from off the shelf parts. The average WCC chopper may go together that way but at least all the parts are WCC parts, not someone elses.
They way I look at it the whole chopper fad is "dead" anyways, and it will be business as usual soon. I am thankful for the TV exposure and the chance to see Shinya Kimura, Chica and Johnny Chop, Hank Young, Indian Larry, Eric Gorges, and even Billy Lane build bikes. I am sure it has inspired as many people to make parts instead of buying them as it did inspire people to go out and buy their own (off-the shelf) custom choppers. I think the good it has done outweighs the bad.