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Orange County Choppers Original 2026 S01E05 AC3 SNAKE
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00:04You're watching Discovery On Demand.
00:09This week on Orange County Chopper's Original.
00:12Our friend Fran is doing a bike with us to bring awareness to an organization that deals with animals and
00:17veterans.
00:18Like, could there be eagle wings kind of making the sidecar?
00:21All the way through the whole build, there was just issues.
00:29This is red. These are orange. Look at the difference.
00:32We fixed it and finished it.
00:36This is gorgeous.
01:10So, in typical OCC fashion, we just finished a bike and we got us started on the next one already.
01:15And our friend Fran, who we've known for quite some time since we've been down here in Florida, is doing
01:19a bike with us to bring awareness to an organization that deals with animals and veterans and PTSD.
01:25Paul's got some cool ideas for it and some cool colors, so I'm looking forward to working on this one.
01:29What's going on?
01:31He wonders why I don't want him to drive my truck.
01:33Did anybody else happen to notice that he jumped the curb almost in this?
01:37Don't say a word to me inside.
01:38Drive your truck.
01:39Hi, look at you.
01:40How are you?
01:41Good to see you.
01:42How are you, Jill?
01:43Good to see you.
01:46I'm heading up north in a couple of hours.
01:50How are you?
01:50You look awesome.
01:51So, I was like, well, half winter, half Florida, and we're in winter in Florida right now anyway.
01:55You look beautiful and I have goosebumps, so come on in, you guys.
01:58You look fabulous as always.
02:00Never been out this way before.
02:01No matter where Fran goes, she brings an energy that is unmatched.
02:07So, you guys, I have two friends with me today.
02:09They're very special to me.
02:10George Colella is a 9-11 survivor, a very close friend, Patrick Bradley, a Vietnam vet.
02:15We've done a lot of things together.
02:17Patrick works with rescue animals, specifically birds of prey, to help veterans with PTSD.
02:22And George is the president of a motorcycle group here.
02:25He's helped us in Tallahassee.
02:26We go up there at least a few times a year to advocate for biker's rights.
02:31And nothing brings joy, I feel like, to everyone, than rescue animals.
02:35I totally agree.
02:38It's necessary.
02:40That's a good way to agree with you.
02:41Get veterans, and we put a bird on their arm and send them for a walk in the park.
02:47Like, could there be eagle wings, kind of making the sidecar, and have the eagle come, kind of the eagle
02:52can come in here.
02:53Yeah.
02:54You know?
02:55Yeah, the big boy would put it on the table.
02:57Oh, my boss.
03:00That's huge.
03:02It would, it'd be, I mean, you could probably make something cool off the handlebars that bird can be on
03:06the handlebars, you know?
03:07That would be cool.
03:08Make something that it could come off or on, you know, with something, something cool, you know?
03:13Yeah, make the bars the perch.
03:14I love that idea.
03:15Or, or off of the bars, you know, one or two.
03:19Every time I build a bike, it's, you know, I start out in a certain direction, but it never goes
03:22that way.
03:23Of course not.
03:24Change is part of the process.
03:25I know that from you.
03:26Come on.
03:27I'll be on the yard, you know, you're going to announce all this, you know, it's supposed to do together.
03:31That's right.
03:31You've got to make sure it's safe for you with the animal and whoever else is riding it.
03:35He always does that.
03:35You embrace the story really well.
03:37Say hi to Thunder.
03:38I don't know if these guys are going to also this little one back or not, but.
03:42Hi, good girl.
03:43Jonah Fox, she's been around.
03:44How are you?
03:45I think she should go close to you.
03:47I couldn't believe that.
03:48Yeah.
03:49Can you shut us out?
03:50This is her girl.
03:51Hi, sweet girl.
03:52How are you?
03:53Hi.
03:55So she's a bird that loves to come close to you and give what we call thunder hugs.
03:59She'll wrap her wing around you for a while.
04:01Wow, that's good.
04:02Paul and Joni and I have so much in common, the way we love the animals.
04:06For me to have this opportunity for him to build a bike for me, I can't wait to see what
04:09he has in store.
04:10I'm excited about it, but I think you have a whole lot of things coming together here.
04:15So you have the love of animals.
04:17Fran rides, so she wants it to be rideable.
04:20I think this bike is going to present some pretty significant challenges, but I'm looking forward
04:25to it.
04:27Bike number five.
04:31So really, the term chopper is really chopping up your bike.
04:36You know, back in the day, people had stock Harleys, and to customize them, you know, you'd
04:44be cutting the necks off or stretching the down tubes or cutting a fender, you know, and
04:50basically, that's what a chopper is.
04:55Today, we're going to continue the Eagle Bike.
04:59We left off with the rear fender.
05:02We're putting a tire on here that's not the right tire.
05:04It's a bigger tire in height and width, but the hubs are the same, so we're able to line
05:10it up with the transmission so that I could adjust the wheel where it's got to be and
05:17mount the fender and also be able to mount the chain.
05:20But we still got the exhaust to do.
05:23We got to mount the gas tank.
05:25The front end's got to be put together and put on.
05:28So there's quite a bit of work.
05:31I'm bringing in Drew.
05:34There's no shortage of things to do.
05:35So Casey's been here working on the mural on the wall that Paul commissioned her for.
05:39So it's great to see the transition of a blank wall coming to a completed thing, which we're
05:45in the middle stages of right now.
05:47The idea is amazing.
05:48What she's painting looks great.
05:49The colors are popping and definitely a representative of Paul and his love of music in the 70s.
05:56So I think it's going to turn out to be a really piece of artwork.
06:01We built a bar like that over there, right?
06:05Mm-hmm.
06:06And then she made the bird come back like that, and it looks like it's almost blowing in the wind.
06:11That looks cool.
06:12It's different than we were thinking.
06:13We were thinking the feathers built into the frame, but that's cool.
06:16We have to remember we still have to make a perch for the real bird.
06:20We're going to do that off the handlebar.
06:22And I was thinking about that, and you're correct.
06:23That's what we were planning.
06:24But when you tilt the bars like this, the perch isn't going to be straight anymore.
06:29Do you have to keep the tires straight?
06:31Yes.
06:32Yeah, you'll have to keep the tires straight.
06:33I mean, the bird, yeah.
06:35I mean, that bird could hang any way it wants, but yeah, you would want to keep it straight,
06:39you know?
06:39And she thinks she can knock that out in the time you gave her?
06:42I don't know.
06:44Like, we have to look at what is a perch for an eagle, because I looked it up, and it
06:48was
06:48almost like a two-by-four.
06:50I came across Jen.
06:51We started going back and forth a little bit, and as we were doing the shows, I couldn't,
06:59like, nothing seemed to fit.
07:00We decided this is a perfect time for Jen, and that's how we brought Jen in, the eagle
07:06bike.
07:06Yeah.
07:07Is it going to have, like, the wings kind of spreading out and all that?
07:10I think it's going to come.
07:11I think if it looks like that, it'll be cool, because it'll look like it's flying.
07:15You know, it'll look pretty cool, you know?
07:18Yeah.
07:18All right, let's go, let's put the motor in, right, Jen?
07:22Yep.
07:22Yep.
07:46Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go,
07:48let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go,
07:52let's go.
08:10Hey, day three or four working on the ego bike.
08:13Things went pretty well today.
08:14Drew came in, has been helping us with the rear fender and the struts and he's now working
08:18on the exhaust.
08:19I think it's going well.
08:20No hiccups yet.
08:22Tomorrow we're going to take the fender off, bring it over to Anthony who's going to work
08:25on a perch we're doing for a special piece of metal art that's going on the back of it.
08:30I think we'll get this one done, at least fabrication on time.
08:33That way we can get it out to paint and powder coat and move on to the next one.
08:36What are you, executive delegate, executive delegate or ED, the ED.
08:42Mike is the ED now.
08:46So we decided to come over to Anthony's this morning because he's got the equipment that
08:52we need to complete the rear fender.
08:54And he doesn't know it, but I'm going to have him do a couple other things while we're here.
08:58But yeah, so we're going to just grab a hold of the fender and a few other things and go
09:06over it with Anthony and start rolling the perch, I guess you call it perch for the rear fender
09:10and go from there.
09:12That'll look cool.
09:13Yeah, that's perfect.
09:35Pretty much straight from there and then I can cut wherever I want here.
09:41You've done it again, Anthony.
09:42We love you.
09:43Okay.
09:44I'll get you one for Christmas.
09:46Okay.
09:46There you go.
09:47I've made it your birthday.
09:48Okay.
09:48Paul bought me a fender and then we ended up cutting a piece of inch and a quarter.
09:52We ring rolled it, capped the ends, and then mounted it to the fender.
09:57And then from there we made some handlebars real quick.
10:00We bent them in our mandrel bender and then made a simple drag bar so when he gets back
10:05to the shop he can fit it all together and go from there.
10:09The piece turned out good.
10:10It's exactly what we wanted.
10:12It really helps keep us ahead of the game because if we had to do it, it would take forever.
10:16Now back to the shop so I can yell at Drew a little bit to get these bars and everything
10:21finished.
10:23Did you get it?
10:24Yeah, I got it.
10:25Yeah, we'll have to get it.
10:27I don't know.
10:28Yeah, I think you'll be fine there, right?
10:31Mm-hmm.
10:32All right.
10:32Take the fender off.
10:34All right.
10:35Right?
10:35Yeah.
10:36I was just thinking we got to bend that a little more.
10:39Bend that more.
10:41Go in the store and cut that right off.
10:44Over there.
10:46The what?
10:46The starpee?
10:47Yeah.
10:48Wouldn't it just explode?
10:50I hope so.
10:57Watch out.
10:58Get it where you want it.
10:58You got it?
11:00You got it?
11:03I've never seen that before, man.
11:05That's funny.
11:06I guess I learn new stuff every day.
11:08I don't know if this is going to work or not.
11:10Well, it's a one-time only Sharpie, though.
11:13It's a one-time only.
11:14Today and today only.
11:17Does it look like I got it?
11:20Yeah?
11:22That'll work.
11:25Yeah, I'm all like, oh, we got to take, we got to cut the tacks off.
11:28Yeah, you're f***ing cutting everything where you drill it out.
11:32Like, no, we'll just make a new Sharpie.
11:35Bucky thing I thought about putting that fender on first.
11:38Oh, I would have.
11:39It's way too forward.
11:42I don't know how it happened.
11:43What the?
11:43Oh, yeah, the post four, it's like right here.
11:46Yeah.
11:47So we're kicking it up like that.
11:50Because it was like you would have, it would have been in your back.
11:53Yeah.
11:54That's what, yeah.
11:54So we're just jumping the hole.
11:57Like, reusing this hole.
11:59Two and going and then put one over here.
12:01Oh, good deal.
12:02Everything's ready to get prepped.
12:03He's shooting everything tonight.
12:05As soon as Drew has a second and fills that hole, I'll bring that back over to him.
12:10We'll have that all tomorrow.
12:11I drew a line on there where I thought that perch should have been.
12:14I don't know whether we just moved it up further or whatever, but it's in a wrong spot.
12:20So what we're just going to do is we're going to shift it back a hole.
12:24And that seems to work.
12:26I had to make a little special tool for that.
12:28We had to waste one of our Sharpies, but we were able to get in there, make enough circle
12:35in there to get the center and center punch it, so.
12:38Well, this is a custom shop.
12:39Yeah.
12:39You've got to have custom Sharpies.
12:40Well, everything's a one-off in here.
12:42Yeah.
12:43Right, Kim?
12:43Not like we don't leave them sitting around with the caps off every day, so we have to
12:46throw them out tomorrow.
12:47All right, yeah.
13:04My boy over there is finishing up the handlebars.
13:08So I think that when the trees come in, we'll mount that stuff, get the front end lined up,
13:13put the brakes on and all that kind of stuff.
13:15We've got to mount the seat.
13:16We've still got to mount the gas tank, but hopefully we pretty much have to get it done
13:22today to really start the next project.
13:25Christian will be in tomorrow, and so will Mikey, so that'll be a huge help.
13:42All right, what do you got going on over here, Slick?
13:44I'm just going to tack this together, see what you think about the width of the bars.
13:50It's looking pretty cool.
13:53I think it's still wide, don't you?
13:55Yeah, I think it's a little wide.
13:57Plus, Fran's going to be riding it, right?
13:59Yeah.
13:59Yeah, so probably I would go a little bit narrow.
14:01Take an inch off of this?
14:02Yeah.
14:03Can you?
14:03And still be...
14:04Yeah.
14:08Yeah, I found this under the table so you can set the angle that you want.
14:12So I set it at 30 degrees to match the rake of the frame.
14:18So, yeah, that kind of worked out.
14:19I didn't have to make anything.
14:21I wish I would have known about that weeks ago, to be honest with you.
14:24That would have helped me out.
14:48I think Drew's almost done with the bars.
14:51Gonna put the front end together, line all that up.
14:55The rear tire, the right rear tire.
14:58We gotta put spacers and caliper, the seat pan.
15:01And we're pretty much ready to go.
15:04So unless something else comes up, I think we're still kind of pretty much on target.
15:19Yeah.
15:21It's a good height, Drew.
15:22Drinking it.
15:23Sleep.
15:25Yeah, so I think we had a pretty good day today.
15:28This pan's taking a little bit longer than I expected.
15:32But yeah, tomorrow, probably a couple hours tomorrow, we'll break it down, send it out
15:37and, you know, for powder coat and stuff.
15:39So, yeah.
15:39So we'll finish it up tomorrow.
15:43Can we call you Drew?
15:44Are we your friends?
15:46Yeah.
15:47I thought we were...
15:47I thought we've been friends.
15:50Well...
15:50Kind of like...
15:53Depends on the day, bro.
15:54Hey, the first year I worked for him, I don't think he knew my first name.
15:58Yeah.
15:58Yeah, you're lucky.
15:59It was that Air Force guy.
16:00It was that Air Force guy.
16:01Yeah.
16:14So I realized that I'm cursing too much.
16:18Yeah.
16:19Yeah.
16:20Yeah.
16:20Right?
16:20You know what I mean?
16:21So watch your mouth, right?
16:37So that's the way that seat's going, right?
16:40Yeah.
16:41That's pretty cool.
16:42It is.
16:43I want to sit on it.
16:45Yeah.
16:45Let's do it.
16:46You can do it now.
16:49Yeah, I like the way the seat came out.
16:50It was actually pretty cool.
16:51Yeah, it's a cool setup.
16:54Who thought of that?
16:56I'm taking credit for it.
16:57Oh, I thought of that.
17:00I'm good, bro?
17:01Yeah, this should be enough.
17:02But for...
17:02I think for her or whoever's probably gonna be perfect, you know?
17:09You know what I mean?
17:11I mean, I can ride it like this, no problem, but...
17:14Yeah, it looks like it'd be a comfortable ride like that.
17:16Yeah.
17:17All right.
17:18We got everything mocked up.
17:19The front end was mocked up.
17:20The seat's done.
17:22Pretty much everything's done, so we're taking the part and we're gonna send it out to paint
17:27and powder coat.
17:29We have Mikey here.
17:31Probably one of the bigger reasons why we're at this point now, because he has a new title
17:39now.
17:41Executive...
17:41What are you...
17:41Executive?
17:42Delegate?
17:43Executive Delegator.
17:44Or ED.
17:45The ED.
17:47Executive.
17:47I'm the ED.
17:49Mikey's the ED.
17:50So that would be a title title.
17:51What we're gonna do is we're gonna take this off, separate everything, and then by noon
17:56we'll have the second project up on the left and we'll get going on that.
18:08Today I got a new title.
18:10I'm no longer just the Delegator, I'm the...
18:13What is it?
18:14Executive.
18:15Executive Delegator.
18:16The ED.
18:19Which, you know, is a common term for erectile dysfunction.
18:23So, no matter what kind of rank you gain, you know, you're always the butt of the joke.
18:31I've been doing it for...
18:33Look at the veins popping, bro.
18:34For like 45 years now.
18:36Pretty consistent, you know?
18:38Yeah.
18:41The old Murphy performance is a gym that I stop by every once in a while.
18:46Good.
18:46How are you?
18:47I'm all right.
18:48I'm gonna...
18:49Looking for Mike and Keith.
18:50Mike and Keith.
18:51Okay, awesome.
18:51I'm gonna do a little...
18:52I'll take you over.
18:53They're working out in the corner.
18:58Big Paul.
18:59What's up, bro?
19:00Hey, man.
19:01We're all...
19:03We're all warmed up to do some legs.
19:04I don't know if you wanna hop in with us and do some legs with us.
19:07No legs.
19:08No?
19:08Bikes and tries today.
19:09Okay.
19:10Yeah.
19:11All right, we'll switch up.
19:11We'll join you.
19:12How are you?
19:13Bikes and tries?
19:13Yeah.
19:14Right here?
19:16They asked me to come in and work out with them.
19:18You know, it was bicep, tricep day for me.
19:22They would've killed me in any other area.
19:27It never goes away.
19:28Look at those veins.
19:29I've been doing it for...
19:30Look at those veins popping, bro.
19:31For like 45 years now.
19:34Pretty consistent, you know?
19:35Yeah.
19:47I met Keith and Mike.
19:49You know, they'd ask if I came down here and have a little workout with those guys.
19:53It fits into my schedule, what I would do in my regular gym today.
19:57I got a little pumped there.
20:00And it was really enjoyable working out with those two guys.
20:04Workout with Paul was senior was unbelievable.
20:07Came in and notched it and said, let's do guns.
20:10And I'm like, all right, that's cool with me.
20:12And I'm just, I'm happy to be a part of it.
20:14And I'm honored to be here and get a workout in with Paul.
20:18And as a beautiful worker with Paul, you know, I mean, he's a living legend.
20:22But it was great to get in here and to load up these guns.
20:26You guys gotta watch out.
20:28Because we already know he's got a lot more beautiful work coming your way.
20:33You know, those guys are always giving back.
20:36Great guys.
20:37Great gym.
20:38And yeah, I had a good time.
20:40Great gym.
20:40Great gym.
20:41Great gym.
20:42Great gym.
20:43My name is Jen Laree.
20:46When I graduated high school, I went and got my welding ticket.
20:50When I had my daughter, I bought a little, little welder.
20:55And I started just making, you know, whatever would come to mind.
20:58I started welding in our single car garage at home.
21:06All right, guys.
21:07Today, class.
21:10Swinger bearing.
21:11Install.
21:12Yes, it's been kind of a trip coming back here working on choppers again, putting bikes
21:17together, especially working with Paul.
21:20And I've known Jim for a lot of years, too.
21:23And Mikey, of course, and Joan.
21:25I blew my fingers off.
21:28It kind of looked like, you know, when you're done with the roll of toilet paper,
21:30the tube.
21:33It was that size.
21:37I'm going to put the motor in.
21:39Because that's going to keep it from tilting what you put the front end on it.
21:42Yeah.
21:42I'm all about that.
21:44Otherwise, it's going to tilt every time we do something on the front.
21:46I'm all about it.
21:48We are over here, Jim.
21:52That's a little more.
21:53Down?
21:54Yeah, a little bit.
21:56That should be good.
22:00Give it a bear hug, Jim.
22:02I got this.
22:03Give it a pepper.
22:06You're going to put this in first on these ones?
22:08Yeah, because you've got to be able to hold it up there and put this in.
22:13Now you're going to have to knock that bearing out.
22:15Hold on, am I being dumb?
22:18I'm not, right?
22:19Not at all.
22:22Why is it that we're always looking for something?
22:26I don't know.
22:26Huh?
22:27I don't know.
22:27Jim?
22:28I don't know.
22:30Maybe you could answer that question.
22:32Keep looking for love in all the wrong places.
22:34Yeah.
22:34How much space you got?
22:36I'm up front.
22:38Between the bearing and the...
22:40I'm on it.
22:42All right, these go in between them.
22:44Do you have a hold of this for a second?
22:46Yep.
22:49You're saying that this don't have enough?
22:51I'm...
22:52I'm calling you a liar.
22:53What, did you switch the bolts since I said that?
22:55No, I didn't switch anything.
22:57It was only hanging out, like, not even a quarter inch.
23:00You don't know what you're talking about.
23:02That's the problem.
23:03You're the one who said, and I quote,
23:05that's the problem.
23:06There's two threads.
23:06That's enough.
23:07Oh, we're almost there, Jim.
23:08We're rocking.
23:23So SMT sent us some really nice rims.
23:26These are going to look awesome.
23:27Nice chrome.
23:28Got a nice design to it.
23:30They match everything.
23:31They put the hubs on that we asked for,
23:33so they do a really good job.
23:35They get them to us quick with our short cut-offs and deadlines.
23:38They're still able to meet our needs.
23:41They're just great.
23:42Their customer service is awesome when we call them.
23:44They ship them out as soon as they get them done,
23:46and, yeah, we're super happy with them.
23:49Their hardware is nice, you know?
23:51The mounting hardware on the sprocket,
23:54and you know what I mean?
23:56They use 12-point bolts for them.
23:58Yeah.
23:58The front.
23:59The chrome is just phenomenal, and so is their powder coating.
24:06Pull it up and push the whole mechanism forward while you're...
24:15...
24:17Oh, we got a, uh, face-to-face here.
24:21How you making out?
24:23Good.
24:23Good.
24:24Still working.
24:25Still working.
24:26I'm sure you are too, right?
24:28Oh, yeah.
24:29Yeah, I pulled a 21-hour day yesterday.
24:32Oh, my God.
24:34I can't do the 21-hour days anymore.
24:38Do you want to see the eagle?
24:40I want to see the eagle.
24:41It's coming along now.
24:43What do you think?
24:44I think it's crazy looking.
24:46Oh, .
24:47Yeah?
24:48Yeah, it's wild.
24:49So what else you got to do to it?
24:52Well, I need some feathers.
24:53Yeah.
24:55Put some feathers on that bird.
24:56It looks naked.
24:57I know.
24:58So I'm going to detail all of these individually.
25:02These smaller ones.
25:04How'd you cut them?
25:06All by hand.
25:07Did you really?
25:08I did.
25:09Well, my CNC is, uh, not in this shop.
25:13What's our plan?
25:14So I'm going to finish putting all the feathers on today.
25:17I'll probably be pretty close by tonight to finishing this.
25:22And then tomorrow morning, I'm just going to spend the morning
25:26just doing the little details.
25:28Uh, but I'll be done by tomorrow afternoon.
25:30Um, so you'll be here when?
25:32We're going to fly up Friday night.
25:34All right, guys.
25:34Have a good night, all right?
25:36Bye, Paul.
25:37Yeah, so we're going to wrap it up now.
25:39Um, we probably started on this around 2 o'clock or something like that this afternoon.
25:45But we did it good.
25:46We got the whole roller, roller together.
25:48Uh, the rear bike, rear calipers are on.
25:51Everything's, uh, all the, all the axle spacers are on.
25:54Everything's centered out.
25:55We have the front brake on, the full front end on there.
25:58Uh, we got the motor in.
25:59Uh, which I think that we, we didn't really have a lot of problems.
26:04Uh, of course we had the tire off and on a few times, but that's just par for the course.
26:09Uh, so tomorrow we'll get back on it.
26:12Uh, Christian's going to be wiring.
26:14Uh, we'll probably be working on either putting the, the primary together,
26:18putting a chain on.
26:20Um, and, uh, we're waiting on the bird.
26:26Yeah, so I got in a little early today for a change.
26:29Uh, and Christian was already working on the wiring on the bike.
26:32We found, like, one issue.
26:34We had to open up the holes a little bit on the, on the motor mounts.
26:37So that's done.
26:38So we're going to put the trans in now, try to line up, see how the primary lines up,
26:42and, uh, get the chain on there and then go from there.
26:44I mean, if we get a good day in today, we could probably be almost finished.
26:52This is red.
26:54These are orange.
26:55Definitely it's a different.
27:00Look at the difference.
27:01You can see it before even unwrapping it.
27:03I can see, I can see where too much red was, uh...
27:06Oh, for the primary stuff, yeah.
27:07Uh-huh.
27:08So we've been working with Talon and the people from CQ for a couple months now.
27:12Uh, they're right up the road.
27:13They're really great people, and they turn the stuff around for us really quick.
27:16Uh, we bring them a lot of stuff last minute, and, uh, they don't hesitate
27:19or struggle to get it done and back to us.
27:21So I'm just here for a couple days, got to head back to New York.
27:24Um, but I got going on the wiring on, uh, Fran's Eagle bike.
27:29Um, just got everything as much as I could.
27:31Everything pretty much where just the ends had to be, you know, connected, soldered, finished.
27:37Um, so I kind of left my Druid diagram and hoped for the best, fingers crossed.
27:42I told them they could claw me, though.
27:44Yeah, so, um, it was kind of a crazy day today.
27:46You know, the powder-coater, which probably we should have told them,
27:50but he powder-coated where the controls go on there,
27:52and we had to sand all that down, which is kind of a painy ass.
27:57Um, where I thought that the taillight, uh, bracket was gonna be,
28:03and, and, and still look all right, doesn't look good at all.
28:06Uh, and of course the bike is, uh, painted, so you can't really weld any, any tabs on there.
28:12So I don't know, you know, tomorrow's another day.
28:15Uh, I did figure that would be a little bit further ahead than we are now.
28:20Uh, and then, you know, even tomorrow there's certain things that, um,
28:24that we're gonna have to figure out to make work.
28:27I guess, you know, it's probably time to walk away and, uh, get a fresh start tomorrow.
28:32And kind of like, all the way through the whole build, there was just issues.
28:51The Eagle has landed.
28:53The Eagle, wow.
28:55Holy .
28:55Put it on the table, but I want to get a better look up.
28:57We had the driver waiting outside the shop,
28:59and I'm, I know in my head now it's coming to terms with the fact
29:04that there is no way this is getting done.
29:07Called Jim up.
29:08They still needed the fender on Friday.
29:11So then we, we got together, figured out a new plan,
29:14and I ended up bringing the half-done piece up here.
29:18The, uh, like the color.
29:19I like it.
29:20I like it a lot.
29:21Yeah, I was gonna do...
29:22Where's the bar?
29:23So there's one, and then it's gonna have claws,
29:25and I have the bar.
29:26I have the bar here.
29:27That mounts to the fender.
29:28Yes, sir.
29:29It goes...
29:30So I have claws.
29:31They're already welded and sculpted,
29:33so I'm gonna weld the claws on.
29:35We'll mount it to the bar.
29:37I thought if we could bolt the bar onto the fender.
29:40I gotta be honest with you.
29:41Yeah.
29:42This bird looks ten times bigger on the pictures.
29:46Yeah.
29:46I was like, holy .
29:48We're gonna, we're gonna have to go on a wide lane highway.
29:52Something like that, obviously.
29:53Oh, that's crazy.
29:54That's crazy, man.
29:55But it's gonna be up on the...
29:56Something beyond my realm, like I, you know,
29:59she's an artist.
30:00And to see it, you know, in person,
30:03it's really impressive, like, her skill.
30:05He's sitting more or less like that,
30:07but it'll connect to this, right?
30:09Well, the bar, it's mounted on that plate, right?
30:11It goes up and sits across.
30:12And then the talons are, like, grabbing onto her,
30:15like we talked about.
30:16Jen probably spent almost 24 hours a day
30:20for five days to get it done.
30:22Uh, that says a lot about someone.
30:32Start with the head, build the frame,
30:35and now we're just covering it all, uh, with feathers.
30:38So, we've been cutting feathers for the past four days straight.
30:4420, 21-hour days.
30:46Because you can cut them, but then we gotta clean them all,
30:48and then, you know, I gotta detail them a little bit.
30:52So, it's all a process, but we are so close.
30:57Listen, I think it's great opportunity,
31:00just great opportunity to bring people in that are such talented,
31:04to give them the opportunity that I had,
31:08um, and, and the recognition that they deserve.
31:12So, we just got done with the day.
31:13It's been a very busy day.
31:15There was a lot going on outside the shop,
31:16but a lot going on inside the shop.
31:18Started working on the bike this morning.
31:19It was moving along great.
31:21And Jen showed up with Sean,
31:23start working on artwork for this.
31:25I was planning to have this done at my shop the day before.
31:29We're gonna pull a light one tonight
31:31and get this thing all ready for tomorrow.
31:37Oh. Oh.
31:38I'm gonna take it.
31:40Hi, Mike.
31:40Hey, Paul.
31:41Hey, buddy. How was your flight?
31:43Next time you fly in, you could fly...
31:46Well, Eagle Air. Look at this thing, man.
31:48Eagle Air, bro.
31:49Let's take it off, and we gotta bring it to Anthony's.
31:52Oh, got it? Yeah.
31:53You can put it right here.
31:55Let me go back in and get everything ready.
31:59I didn't expect the bird to be so heavy.
32:01I thought it'd be like 15 pounds.
32:02It was more like 50.
32:04And I was gonna put it up like a parrot or something
32:07and choke around, but it's a little too heavy
32:09and it's a little too early.
32:24Yeah, done.
32:25Yeah.
32:25Parts are missing again.
32:27Uh, just the sprocket we need for the transmission to button up the whole, uh, primary.
32:32But, Mikey Tuttle was here today, made his presence.
32:36So, that's always a morale booster.
32:38Yeah, we got another bike we gotta put up on the lift this week and finish this up.
32:43So, that's about where we're at.
32:50How's it going in here?
32:51It is going fantabulous.
32:53Are you, your chain still real tight?
32:56It's probably wrecked just about where it should be.
33:01That's the way it's supposed to be.
33:04Oh, Mike, use the brake.
33:06What are you doing?
33:06Oh, sorry.
33:07Yeah.
33:09You know who you are.
33:10Shut up.
33:12All right, all right.
33:13Look at that?
33:13Yeah.
33:14We got it.
33:14We already checked it.
33:15Gemini.
33:17Gemini?
33:17The Gemini.
33:20I mean, we had it together with the primary on, I believe.
33:24Did you ream out the transmission or just the motor?
33:27It's running crooked.
33:29You all right?
33:29You look a little tired.
33:30You're waiting for that coffee, right?
33:31You perky right up there?
33:32Perky right over there?
33:34Think you a little perky?
33:35Yeah, when I leave here, I do worry that...
33:37you know, there's gonna be nobody delegating.
33:39My father's a bit aloof, and I think everybody else
33:42who works for him wants to kill him.
33:45So I'm sort of like the bridge, you know?
33:47The ladder there.
33:48I imagine the place is probably gonna go to hell without me.
33:53Well, Paul's kind of like me.
33:55He don't have much to say.
33:56I don't like to talk too much.
33:58We get along.
33:59We don't have to have a conversation.
34:01We can just do what we gotta do and get it done.
34:04Yeah, I think what we're gonna do today
34:05is we gotta get these struts sent back to Anthony.
34:09He's gonna clean them up.
34:10We gotta get him back to the powder coater.
34:12Al's gotta finish the wiring.
34:13I gotta put the cables on.
34:16The oil line's gotta go on.
34:17The front brake gotta be bled.
34:19If things go smooth,
34:22we should be able to accomplish all that stuff.
34:32So Jim from Jim's just-in-time leather.
34:34The seat, it's a different color leather than we usually use.
34:37We're usually dark.
34:38Paul wanted something tan to go with the candy red,
34:41and it looks great.
34:48My suggestion would be, let's get the cables on here,
34:52and bring that over to the powder coater.
34:54Let him do that in red, too.
34:56And he's gonna have-
34:57Well, let me do it now,
34:58because if he's spraying those-
35:00Yeah, I mean, we don't need it now, right?
35:01No, but he has to empty the gun
35:03and clean the system every time he changes colors.
35:05Right? It will look much better,
35:07blend much better, right?
35:09A lot of f***ing wires, Al.
35:11Yeah, f***ing pay any .
35:12Huh? Gee.
35:13Pay any .
35:14Christian was in before me,
35:16and he did half of it,
35:18and I came in and finished it up.
35:20You know, it's a little tough
35:22when somebody starts something,
35:24and you gotta pick up afterwards.
35:32Yeah, I've known Alan for a bunch of years now.
35:35He spent a lot of time at OCC.
35:37Take his, you know, his shirt off his back for you,
35:39kind of guy,
35:40and just, like, no nonsense.
35:42Let's work.
35:43Let's get this done.
35:44Whatever it is,
35:45I'll stay here till 4 in the morning.
35:47I don't care, kind of guy.
35:48A lot of wiring.
35:50You know, it's a bike
35:51that somebody's gonna ride,
35:52so you got, you know,
35:53you got your blinkers,
35:54you got your horn,
35:55you got everything
35:55that a regular bike would have,
35:57not a cut-up chopper
35:59where you're only running a headlight
36:00with, you know, two wires.
36:07So, hiding it all in the headlight,
36:08small headlight,
36:09Paul wanted the small headlight,
36:10so it was tough stuff and all that in there,
36:12ten pounds in a five-pound box.
36:15So, it all worked out in the end.
36:16And, kind of like,
36:18all the way through the whole build,
36:20there was just issues.
36:22Issue after issue
36:24that we had to deal with.
36:26But, you know what?
36:27We dealt with them one at a time.
36:30You know, everybody,
36:31everybody was in the game,
36:33and we dealt with them all,
36:36and, you know,
36:37we fixed it and finished it.
36:40It took me a while
36:41to figure out what to do here,
36:42you know?
36:42This is gorgeous.
36:43This is our bike.
36:47We're gonna unveil the bird bike,
36:49take it out for a test ride
36:50just to see how it is,
36:51and then we're gonna get it loaded up,
36:55and it should be a good day.
36:57You pulled it off.
36:58Well, we'll see.
36:59That looks real good.
37:01Yeah.
37:01Yeah, you won't notice the difference.
37:03That's good.
37:04Not at all.
37:05Yeah.
37:05Good.
37:06Good deal.
37:07Oh, that looks sharp.
37:07Like right here.
37:08Very close to the frame, too.
37:10No, you did a good job.
37:11I love the color.
37:17You could never go wrong
37:19with Candy Apple Red, man.
37:20That's right.
37:21Well, let's take this off of here
37:22and see what it does.
37:30So all the issues,
37:31all the hard work,
37:33bike fired right up,
37:34took it out for a little ride,
37:36brakes were perfect,
37:37clutch was perfect,
37:39loaded it on the trailer,
37:40and we're on our way over there.
37:42It ran perfect,
37:44started right up,
37:45sounds great,
37:45looks amazing.
37:46So we're gonna get it on the trailer,
37:48head on over,
37:49and we're gonna have an amazing reveal,
37:51and I think it's gonna be another OCC great.
37:56You could not have asked for a better reveal
37:59than the reveal at Fran's
38:01because the energy that Fran has
38:05and it's contagious to everyone around her.
38:07Fran and all that she does in this community,
38:11that this many people would come out,
38:13and I think we all know that Fran is amazing
38:16in her support of veterans and animals,
38:20and I can't think of two better things to support.
38:28Oh!
38:31Oh my God!
38:34Oh my God!
38:44That made me cry.
38:46Oh, jeez.
38:47So Paul's gonna tell you about the bank?
38:49So, you know,
38:51first of all,
38:52we love,
38:53we love this lady.
38:54Everybody loves her.
38:55Everybody evidently does.
38:56Yeah.
38:58So when she asked us to do this bike,
39:00it was kind of like,
39:03I couldn't really,
39:04it took me a while to figure out what to do here,
39:06you know?
39:07This is gorgeous.
39:08This is our bike,
39:09because this is our biker community.
39:11We've been doing this together since we started,
39:13and I'm grateful for all of you coming out here today.
39:16This is incredible turnout.
39:18You, Paul,
39:20and Joni,
39:21and Jim,
39:21and your entire crew.
39:22You guys are amazing.
39:23Your production crew has been wonderful.
39:25We've had a really great time doing this.
39:28Unbelievable.
39:29Like, surpassed what I thought it would be.
39:31I wasn't exactly sure what to expect.
39:33I started hearing about the metal work,
39:35everything else was gonna go into it,
39:36but the perch on the rear,
39:40it's awesome.
39:41It's an amazing bike.
39:42I feel like I'm living the American dream.
39:44I can't believe that I'm sitting here today with this
39:45gorgeous bike.
39:47My favorite color.
39:48This is amazing.
39:49The eagle can perch up here.
39:51So you're gonna see me at all the events.
39:53You're gonna see this bike a lot.
39:54Thank you, Paul.
39:55It's absolutely beautiful.
39:56I love it.
39:57She does a lot for the community,
39:59and pretty much,
40:00pretty much everywhere,
40:02the veterans especially.
40:03It was pretty cool driving in with the bird.
40:05It's something that's very, very different,
40:08and it took a while to get the creative juices going
40:12to do something like that.
40:14So, yeah, and I'm glad I do it,
40:16and I thank Jen.
40:17Jen really pulled it off.
40:19You know, she does so much for the community,
40:21not just the motorcycle community,
40:23the animal community, the veterans.
40:25I mean, she just never stops giving.
40:28The whole crowd seemed to really appreciate
40:30the artwork on the bike.
40:32So, can't ask for any more than today.
40:35I am so proud of Playa Senior
40:37and the entire Orange County Chopper crew
40:39that all these years later,
40:40they're still pumping out awesome bikes.
40:42Like, how many different twists can you make
40:44on a motorcycle?
40:45I thought they did it all,
40:46and then I see this one, and I say,
40:47oh, there's something new.
40:48So, really happy for Paul,
40:50and really happy for the Fran Hosh Law Group,
40:52because they are great people and very deserving.
40:55So, the job that you guys did
40:57with Orange County Chopper,
40:59is put this bike together,
41:00and specifically for this person
41:02who loves motorcycles,
41:05but she loves serving our veterans,
41:07she loves serving our community,
41:08and this bike tells the story.
41:12I mean, the custom eagle on the back
41:13was a chef's kiss.
41:15I used to ride,
41:16and I would kill for a bike that nice.
41:20That is just gorgeous.
41:22Just unbelievable.
41:24And that sculpture.
41:26Holy...
41:26Well, I can't see that.
41:28I'm sorry.
41:30Thank you, OCC!
41:33Thank you, OCC!
41:35Thank you, OCC!
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