Re: Orange county choppers


justme wrote:
Don't you just love this show? Fantastic entertainment value. The
players have huge strengths and crippling weaknesses. Makes for good
drama, wouldn't you say? Paul Sr., good business acumen, decent design
skills, incredibily abusive. Paul Jr: great fabrication & design
skills, crappy work ethic. It's amazing how they make it all work.
Mikey: gentle tempered, limited talent, limited business acumen....at
least they're aren't any great expectations on him, so he gets off
easy. This is great entertainment. Almost makes me wish I owned one
of the death traps that they fabricate. Of course, in Southern CA, I'd
be a hamburger after spending less than 1 week on a bike in this crazy
traffic.

I think a shrink would have a field day with these guys...assuming that
they are being their "true" selves on camera.

A little insight on the show- it is now a corperate ad mule. Some
company comes along and wants 1-2 hours of ad time on a show and the
cheapest way to do that is by having them "build" a bike. They are
really mostly "put together" guys more than "builders". They have been
doing custom frames now (stupid hardtails) and maybe some more metal
work, but for the most part they buy and bolt on. I am more impressed
with people who have items built (or do it themselves) to the design
they want, not buy everything out of a catalog and modify it a
little....

I was at a Caterpillar open house that had the bike (and other Cat
cars) on display. The bike had it's own hauler with the OCC crap on the
side. They had it on a platform and started it up now and again. It
cost big bucks for the dealer to have it there for 2 days and the rumor
is that Cat paid $2 million for it. Big draw for the kiddies and
non-bikers to ohh and ahh over.

From what they told me, the corp sponsor has to pay for all of
production and (I'm sure) a lot goes to douchebag #1,2 and 3. For gear
head ad time, that is the best money ever spent. Where can you get your
name palstered all over everything for 2 hours for 2 million? Not sure
if the corps have to pay to have re-runs shown.

The show is crap, the bikes are crap, but people watch it. I have to
admit, I do as well. That shows you how much crap is really on TV....

Oh yea, the deadlines on all these shows are crap. only done to make
"good TV" and keep production costs down.

Kirb

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