Motorcycle USA Forums : Join the Revolution
  HomeLog InRegisterCommunity CalendarSearch the ForumHelp
   
Motorcycle Message Board - Motorcycle USA > MotorcycleUSA.com! > Custom/Cruiser > Custom Builder - Copr Choppers  Forum Quick Jump
 
New Topic Post Reply Printable Version
[ << Previous Thread | Next Thread >> | Show Newest Post First ]

Harley1
Forum Moderator



Email Address Not AvailablePersonal Homepage Not AvailableSend a Private Message to Harley1AIM Not AvailableICQ Not AvailableY! Not AvailableMSN Not Available
Date Joined Dec 2006
Total Posts : 247
  		   Posted 8/23/2007 11:08 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
You asked for it, you got it. Our readers got to play editor for a day and here's the people's choice. We'd like to introduce the winner of the MCUSA Online Biker Build-Off, Copr Choppers out of Denver, CO. , and its award-winning bike the Ground Pounder.
Back to Top
 

Superlight
Registered Member

Email Address Not AvailablePersonal Homepage Not AvailableSend a Private Message to SuperlightAIM Not AvailableICQ Not AvailableY! Not AvailableMSN Not Available
Date Joined Dec 2004
Total Posts : 113
  		   Posted 8/24/2007 12:25 PM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Beautiful art objects, but motorcycles? Not to me.
Back to Top
 

freebird
Registered Member

Email Address Not AvailablePersonal Homepage Not AvailableSend a Private Message to freebirdAIM Not AvailableICQ Not AvailableY! Not AvailableMSN Not Available
Date Joined Aug 2006
Total Posts : 93
  		   Posted 8/27/2007 4:45 PM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I just read the wonderful 2007 BMW Motorrad Days Report where motorcyclists didn't act like moron rubes and then suffered through the photos of these assembled bikes with ridiculously long-wheelbases, ridiculously fat rear tires, and ridiculous graphics of naked women and tribal designs. I bet everybody yelled "Show me the titties!" when the winner was announced. Pathetic.

My 2-cents.
Back to Top
 

Geoffrey
Registered Member



Email Address Not AvailablePersonal Homepage Not AvailableSend a Private Message to GeoffreyAIM Not AvailableICQ Not AvailableY! Not AvailableMSN Not Available
Date Joined Dec 2004
Total Posts : 774
  		   Posted 8/28/2007 5:03 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
freebird said...
I just read the wonderful 2007 BMW Motorrad Days Report where motorcyclists didn't act like moron rubes and then suffered through the photos of these assembled bikes with ridiculously long-wheelbases, ridiculously fat rear tires, and ridiculous graphics of naked women and tribal designs. I bet everybody yelled "Show me the titties!" when the winner was announced. Pathetic.

My 2-cents.
I'll tell you one thing... I'd rather attend a party full of V-twin riders with custom choppers than a sleepy BMW rally.

'94 BMW K1100RS
'05 HD Ultra Classic Electra Glide
 

Back to Top
 

Harley1
Forum Moderator



Email Address Not AvailablePersonal Homepage Not AvailableSend a Private Message to Harley1AIM Not AvailableICQ Not AvailableY! Not AvailableMSN Not Available
Date Joined Dec 2006
Total Posts : 247
  		   Posted 8/28/2007 10:03 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
freebird, you miss the point of custom bike building. It's a chance for builders to demonstrate creativity and vision, to explore new technologies and trends and see what works and what doesn't, to not be satisfied with what manufacturers are offering but to have the initiative to learn the trade and create their own motorcycles. Though the work might be ridiculous to you, you didn't have to read the article, but obviously you were filling your eyes with the photographs because that's all you commented on. The work was tastefully displayed. The nude mural was not intended to be a gratuitous shot of a naked woman but to demonstrate the skills of painter Monte Moore. You want Mardi Gras antics, then check out the pages of your monthly cruiser mags. What we posted is tame by comparison.

Fat-backed choppers aren't everybodies cup of tea. But it takes skill to equip a bike with air ride suspension, an internal clutch and throttle system, and be able to conceal wiring better than any manufacturer's mass-produced machines, and it takes intelligence to recognize what the custom builder has achieved beyond the "ridiculous graphics of naked women and tribal designs."
Back to Top
 

Geoffrey
Registered Member



Email Address Not AvailablePersonal Homepage Not AvailableSend a Private Message to GeoffreyAIM Not AvailableICQ Not AvailableY! Not AvailableMSN Not Available
Date Joined Dec 2004
Total Posts : 774
  		   Posted 8/30/2007 6:05 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Harley1 said...
Fat-backed choppers aren't everybodies cup of tea. But it takes skill to equip a bike with air ride suspension, an internal clutch and throttle system, and be able to conceal wiring better than any manufacturer's mass-produced machines, and it takes intelligence to recognize what the custom builder has achieved beyond the "ridiculous graphics of naked women and tribal designs."
I like custom choppers as art forms. I'd never own one, however. Ridability, comfort and value are major shortfalls. I'd much prefer a bike with exposed wiring over one I could not ride comfortably beyond my zip code.

'94 BMW K1100RS
'05 HD Ultra Classic Electra Glide
 

Back to Top
 

Smax
Registered Member



Email Address Not AvailablePersonal Homepage Not AvailableSend a Private Message to SmaxAIM Not AvailableICQ Not AvailableY! Not AvailableMSN Not Available
Date Joined Jun 2003
Total Posts : 2865
  		   Posted 9/5/2007 6:37 PM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Harley1 said...
freebird, you miss the point of custom bike building. It's a chance for builders to demonstrate creativity and vision, to explore new technologies and trends and see what works and what doesn't, to not be satisfied with what manufacturers are offering but to have the initiative to learn the trade and create their own motorcycles...

:-) Really?!? Your (and most of the LCD/'reality'-loving public's) idea of "what works and what doesn't" are far from actual reality. They are 'show-pieces' pretending to be performance-oriented. If they were just pieces of "art" I could see it, but they falsely advertize power and performance... Kinda like fitting a cat-back, a wing, wheels and decals/stickers to Mom's Civic and expecting a racer to take it seriously.

Call it 'art', but it's nothing more...

Scoot-jockey. gsx-r 1100

Back to Top
 
New Topic Post Reply Printable Version
 
Forum Information
Currently it is Sunday, November 22, 2009 12:39 AM (GMT -8)
There are a total of 447,406 posts in 35,241 threads.
In the last 3 days there were 13 new threads and 230 reply posts. View Active Threads
Who's Online
This forum has 17572 registered members. Please welcome our newest member, hotlunch.
1 Guest(s), 0 Registered Member(s) are currently online.  Details
Forum powered by dotNetBB v2.42EC SP2
dotNetBB © 2000-2009
All content found on motorcycle-usa.com is copyrighted by MotorcycleUSA.com, INC.

Need Support? | Forum Help Manual