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GENERAL MOTORCYCLE FORUMS => GENERAL MOTORCYCLE => Topic started by: Red01 on August 29, 2005, 07:57:58 PM

Title: See it here before it appears on Discovery Channel
Post by: Red01 on August 29, 2005, 07:57:58 PM: The latest OCC theme bike is based on the Space Shuttle. :duh:
It's supposed to get two episodes at the beginning of the next season of "American Chopper."

(http://banditmotorcycles.com/v-web/gallery/albums/album17/shuttlebike.jpg)
Title: See it here before it appears on Discovery Channel
Post by: PitterB4 on August 29, 2005, 08:03:31 PM: :wtf:

I'm a (closet) fan but that thing's goofy looking.
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Post by: Red01 on August 29, 2005, 08:17:04 PM: I'm not a fan, but it's gotta be one of the goofiest looking ones they've done so far.

The pic was snagged from our company's daily online newsletter.
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Post by: billybandit on August 29, 2005, 08:30:58 PM: Noooooo. Not good.
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Post by: Mongo on August 29, 2005, 09:37:05 PM: That is bad, I mean really bad! :duh:
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Post by: 12sdrag on August 29, 2005, 10:24:56 PM: BAD,BAD,BAD :gagme: :gatlin
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Post by: PeteSC on August 29, 2005, 11:19:38 PM: Wow. Will it leave a trail of oil and TILES behind it on the road? :?:
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Post by: Bantana on August 29, 2005, 11:28:40 PM: That's just plain gay.
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Post by: chevsuz12 on August 29, 2005, 11:50:27 PM: Is it just me, or are all of their bikes beginning to look like something that even the Hot Wheels designers would take a pass on?
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Post by: Red01 on August 29, 2005, 11:52:13 PM: :beers: :beers: :toofunny: :beers: :beers:
Quote from: "chevsuz12"
Is it just me, or are all of their bikes beginning to look like something that even the Hot Wheels designers would take a pass on?
Title: See it here before it appears on Discovery Channel
Post by: jared1970 on August 30, 2005, 12:47:26 AM: Maybe it will blow up like all the space shuttles seem to do. How did we ever make it to the moon? Almost fourty years later, and we can barely manage to get people off the ground or back on to the ground without the space shuttle exploding.
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Post by: Red01 on August 30, 2005, 12:57:55 AM: When we went to the moon, we didn't re-use the craft, let alone 21 year old ones.
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Post by: neoseity on August 30, 2005, 01:21:38 AM: That thing is ugly!
(kinda like some of the crap they put in Cycle World)

I would like to see it explode though... :grin:
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Post by: dandan on August 30, 2005, 08:50:42 AM: Nice touch on the front wheel :duh: :lol: :lol:
:stop: the madness :banana:
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Post by: PeteSC on August 30, 2005, 09:08:33 AM: The frightening thing is.....millions of 'riders' will look at that, and think
"Gee, that's purty. It needs a couple of Maltese Crosses or Eagles on it, though....."
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Post by: junior627 on August 30, 2005, 02:42:48 PM: That is the ugliest piece of monkey crap I have ever seen. Maybe this will finally be the straw to break the camel's back and get this show off the air.
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Post by: chrissinc on August 30, 2005, 04:56:24 PM: 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!!!
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Post by: billybandit on August 30, 2005, 05:07:07 PM: Don't know if anyones said it yet, but

Housten we have a problem
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Post by: chrissinc on August 30, 2005, 05:09:08 PM: LOL! Billy should have thought of that one.
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Post by: mike on August 30, 2005, 06:17:18 PM: I like the show, it's entertaining to watch the father/son play head games with each other... kinda fun to see what ideas they try to make work also...

That shuttle bike is one of their ugly ones...

I liked the Army Apache bike and the Snap-on Tools bike themes the best....

Shak's huge bike was kinda strange, and Will Smith's I-Robot bike was kinda neat.

They had one theme with a lawnmower based engine I thought was a fresh way of doing it, it sounded good with open pipes (like a big twin).

I think the Statue of liberty theme was a completely copper plated bike (instead of chrome)--talk about a nightmare to keep polished for shows...

They're all just show bikes with power anyway, mostly for themes or people with way too much money and not enough riding experience to know any better.
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Post by: LowRyter on August 30, 2005, 06:29:01 PM: thats awful..........
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Post by: Runerx on August 31, 2005, 11:55:57 PM: Quote from: "chevsuz12"
Is it just me, or are all of their bikes beginning to look like something that even the Hot Wheels designers would take a pass on?

the only accessory available is the Red "zip strip" that you insert next to the rear wheel and yank out to spin the rear wheel up before you set it on the floor and let it rip. :motorsmile:
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Post by: fartndust on September 02, 2005, 02:14:55 PM: :shock:
What??? No Curb Feelies?
Next weeks episode: Tribute to Depends undergarments...nicknamed Harley, fully loaded. :banana: :banana: :stickpoke:
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Post by: solman on September 02, 2005, 02:44:48 PM: Quote from: "chevsuz12"
Is it just me, or are all of their bikes beginning to look like something that even the Hot Wheels designers would take a pass on?

That is exactly what I was thinking. It is definitely the most cheesy project I have ever seen coming from them. They did one for the F-22 Raptor theme and looks pretty sharp.
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Post by: jwalters on September 02, 2005, 04:45:22 PM: I bet the bike costs as much as the space shuttle program too!

Unlike the shuttle, that bike is definitly NOT out of this world! Just kidding, and sorry for the lame joke, but I couldn't resist.! :monkeymoon:
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Post by: Bazza on September 02, 2005, 04:55:02 PM: With something that ugly being described as a work of art, I am begining to shudder at the thought of America owning nuclear weapons.

Butt ugly, hideous, and even I couldn't drink that thing pretty.
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Post by: Desolation Angel on September 02, 2005, 06:47:51 PM: About those Exile bikes, yeah, I really like those and I couldn't believe those Duncanville, Texas boys won the competition with Exile and the Aussie fellow. Some sort of build off I saw.
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Post by: aussiebandit on September 03, 2005, 03:51:42 AM: I'm a fan of the show, liked some of the bikes they've done, but generally choppers/cruisers are not my thing.

I can appreciate a good looking bike,
I can understand why choppers/cruisers appeal to some people,
I admire the amount of work and detail on some of the creations they've come up with but.......

THAT BIKE LOOKS LIKE SHTYE

I can't believe the boys at OCC created it - unless it's a Mikey Bike.
Title: yeeergh
Post by: ratfink3000 on January 19, 2007, 04:58:03 AM: over here in new zealand we get heaps of those little 100 cc mini choppers made in china as direct rip-offs of occ bikes. the spider, the jet etc. Even the slave factories of outer mongolia are going to give this turkey a miss though!
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Post by: solman on January 19, 2007, 10:31:02 AM: Quote from: "12sdrag"
BAD,BAD,BAD :gagme: :gatlin

I've seen pics of it before, I second the motion.
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Post by: CWO4GUNNER on January 19, 2007, 06:09:38 PM: It just another "good for nothing" chopper cruiser art icon. More suitable as large costume jewelery then anything that is remotely close to function, practical, or even architectural engineering. polarized in use between the flamboyant and the lonely rebel with an insatiable need for attention.
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Post by: Rocketjock on January 21, 2007, 02:13:29 PM: Havn't seen it. But uv got my vote for a waiste of space. As a matter of fact, the whole show is becoming a waiste of space.