God it's really getting bad guys. Those "choppers" are starting to look a little cookie cutter like. Hi lets make a chopper. I know! I know! We'll use only dinosaur V-Twin Engines, we need to paint it jellybean colours, It has to have a sh!t riding position and we need to extend the forks! No-ones ever done that!!! What's next??? An "Al-Queda" themed bike with fake dynamite attached to it and "Allah Akhbar" in arabic writing on the side? Maybe we'll call it "L'il Jihad!" Let's see how ugly and offensive we can get while still using the same tired look that hasn't changed in 40 years! The only real "choppers" out there nowadays are ratbikes, for example
www.ratbike.org has some real "beauts". :-) The whole idea of a chopper is to take a stock bike and "chop" off some parts to make it lighter and add your own parts to it. Well that's how it first started anyway. I would call these bikes more "custom" than choppers. While some of those ratbikes look like homemade sh!t at least there is more inovation, originality and engineering that all of those "choppers" I've seen so far(Check out the wood bike!). It seems like these bikes are taylor-made for the RUB's out there trying to re-live there easy rider years. Hell, at least they can afford it!! The only bikes I've seen that sort of capture the spirit and have semi-sane riding positions is Exile cycles. But even then they seem a little over-priced. Oh well to each his own I guess.
I still lament the day my friend and I sold that Maxim 650 we we're going to turn into a dirt bike. Man that would have been one hell of a hill climber!
As far as this space shuttle bike is concerned, that's one piece of space junk I'd like to see burn up on re-entry!!!
