who is better orange county choppers or hot match choppers?

Answer 1

There's just way too much crap being sold with the Orange County Choppers logo.

I don't know about you, but when I was a kid, it was embarrassing to show up at school wearing "Trax" shoes. That's because "Trax" was a brand from K-Mart, and any kid whose mom bought them stuff from K-Mart was a geek.

I'm starting to feel the same way about OCC stuff.

Now I'm a fan of people that do their own work, and do it well. At Daytona I stood by, and examined a bike that wasn't a looker in any way, but the guy bent his own bars, tank, fenders, pipes, and frame simply because he couldn't afford one of these art bikes. His craftsmanship was amazing! Each weld was perfect. The tank was a thing of beauty. When I learned that he hand made everything in his one-car garage every night after work it really felt good knowing that people like that were still out there.

I saw another bike that didn't really stand out except for the fact that the guy put in an old Lincoln V12. He too did everything himself.

Back in the day riding motorcycles was a rarity. Each bike was different. Everyone added their own personal touches to their ride to make it their own. Now it seems everybody has a custom harley softail. There isn't anything you could do to one that hasn't been done already. All these guys do now is look in a catalog, and plunk down their credit card for a "unique/custom" bike or bolt-on part.

Choppers are now these guys bike of choice. They all plunk down 30-100K for a bike that if they had any skills could've built themselves for under 10k.

Jesse James is talented. No question there. Today he's considered a metal fabricating god, but take a look back about 50+ years when guys were fabricating bodies for Ferraris with nothing more than a mallet, an english wheel and an old tree stump! Now that's talent! Metal fabricating is simply a dying art. As these old metal wizards die off so does the quality of current fabricators.

Most of the well known "customizers" are really nothing more than "assemblers". They buy all their "custom" parts from outside sources, and assemble them into a bike. Hell anyone with basic tools, and a wad of coin could do that.

OCC sucks. Yeah they may come up with some interesting ideas for how to make a bike even more unrideable, but for the most part all their trully custom work is just welding on "fluff" on to someone else's hard work, and calling it their own.

I remember watching a show on the Discovery channel where OCC built that jet bike. I laughed my *** off when the kid **** a brick because one section of the rear fender didn't match the other. It was like he didn't know what to do. Now if he was any good at fabricating he would've realized that all he had to do was spend 5 minutes on an english wheel, and not even blink an eye. Hell anyone could weld on scrap metal fins, and bullets on and duplicate that same bike.

Answer 2

Hotmatch Choppers

Answer 3

From my experience (purely television, properly extremely of cyber web internet site study) i might might desire to declare West Coast Choppers. OCC make some extraordinary motorcycles, however the coach is ruined via the consistent 'whining' of the presenters. i choose for to confirm choppers being outfitted, i choose for to income some thing, I dont choose for to confirm a kinfolk dispute. There are plent of alternative **** actuality television shows for that. Jesse James on the different hand is a great presenter in 'Monster storage', his steel fabrication is astonishing and he would not ***** and whine. His businesses (WCC) choppers are extraordinary, and for my area a great way exceed OCC's.

Answer 4

Neither. OCC is too commercialized now to care about customers and their products. I shake my head and laugh at the idiots every time i see someone wearing an OCC hat or shirt and NOT OWN an OCC bike.

Answer 5

Matt Hotch.
He tends to design and fabricate more engineered components for his bikes.
OCC tends to just bend up metal, and tack it on.

Answer 6

They are both fantastic at building unridable ornaments.

Answer 7

neither