Show off your "bobber"

[c.o.]

I just think it was the words you chose roland. This is definitely the AMCA. We are all here because we like the old stuff. A bobber is also definitely not in the chopper category. Just roll with the punches man, this is a good group of guys here.

[indianut]

Hey Roland, maybe your ATTITUDE has something to do with why you are having trouble meeting good people to ride with in Florida.

[Ohio-Rider]

It's not about the style of bike you ride. It all about the riding. I think the majority of us can't afford to go out and buy a 100% correct machine. So we find a machine we can afford and slowly invest in them over the years till we get them the way we like. In the mean time we ride em no matter what configuruation they happen to be in. Chopped or bopped it still a lot of fun to jump on a 50 year old piece of machinery and ride it down the road.

Some people remind me of the line in the old rolling-stones song. I don't recall the title of the song but the verse was "He can't be a man cause he doesn't smoke the same cigarettes as me." what sense does that make. Just my 2 cents.-Steve

[LouieMCman]

I went back and looked at all the pictures, not a chopper in the lot in my opinion. All good looking bikes though. I think we all joined this club for the love of old machinery. It doesn't matter what you have as long as you like it, everyone is proud of what they have. Besides we don't criticize people who ride small single cylinder piece of crap British bikes do we? Maybe some people don't like the large v-twin classic American bikes, but that’s OK ....they can ride in the back....... just kidding. Lighten up and let's go riding.

Louie

[T. Cotten]

Seriously Roland,

Important pieces of my "Fossil" pictured at the beginning of this thread were found with an iron prod and exhumed with a shovel.
Their condition, like the rest of the cornfield toy, were too weathered for concours restoration. The head fins have rusted through to daylight in places. The fork had split from freezing, and the frame was broken in seven places, and still sports a waterpipe gusset.

Would you have given it all to the scrapman?

Are you in the wrong club because many of us still see the charm in their character, the magic in resurrecting them, and enjoy the romance of slowly destroying them all over again?

The museums are full of embalmed bikes as they came from the factory.
Preserving only concours examples is revisionist. The rest of motorcyling should be preserved, not just the industrial product, and I believe that the majority of AMCA members share that opinion.

I imagine that you do too.

....Cotten

[dal aymond]

I have loved every bike picture that has ever been posted on this forum. But, thank goodness, the bobber riders have come out of the closet in the past few years, regardless of the purists negative comments.

I can only afford one bike. And, it's a pieced together, H-D 45" solo bobber. It has a 56G motor, 47-later tanks, 46-earlier tranny, a solo frame and front-end, and a beat-up stock rear fender (which was missing the lower hinged part).

It's all I got, but it sure is fun to ride. And, it's pretty cool too!

[roland]

Louie i never knocked any of your bikes so why your calling my brit bike a peace of crap i don't know, i happen to have owned several Harleys and liked them very much and as i said before it is a shame to cut up or alter an original machine and any serious antique owner would not do that. I spent a lot of time and money on my bike and consider it to be part of british motorcycling history, it is a runner and not in a museum. My attitued, good god man i have not called your bikes crap or anything like that, i am just concerned about the loss of another antique motorcycle. This could have been an inteligent debate about whether or not these motorcycles are part of american history or that there just another form of custom motorcycles, but some of you good folks have decided to trun it into a bash roland forum and i am sorry to see that from supposedly well educated adults

[KDR]

Roland....bud......chill out! The guys are ribbin you. Get a sense of humor. No one likes to hear something bad about their bike......I think you can relate to that judging from your post.

So, if you don't like something, don't say anything........like the saying goes; "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all".......or you'll get it dished right back in your face.

[rwrun]

Authentic or not its all I got
I ride what I like and call it my bike

[oddmystic]

Roland, I think you dont get it. You are calling a bobbed bike a loss of an antique mc?? You are making an complete ass out of yourself saying that. Maybe you should come out of your toolshed and check out the history behind these bikes and how and why they were build before you start talking.
Thats all.

d.

[oddmystic]

Check out the knuck forum. Chopperdave build a fine bike again.
I dont see how this could be a loss of a bike?? It is GREAT!!


d.

[Tommo]

I,m with you Roland and it's only because I'm very ill at the moment and am not allowed out in my shed that I've even bothered to look at this section of the forum.
Chopper Daves bike does not even warrant comment.
Some of my bikes have taken as long as 30 years to assemble all the correct parts so I can restore it to original and I'm sure Ted Hodgdon, Henry Wing, Emment Moore and others did not envisage this sort of restoration when they formed the AMCA and I could well imagine them turning in their graves at the thought.
Tommo.

[roland]

Well thanks Tommo it is nice to see there are some members here that understand the meaning of antique motorcycles. I guess these people who are slinging some nasty comments my way just because i questioned whether or not they have ruined an antique motorcycle are a little upset, which i can understand, i just hate the thought of all those lovely old V twins ending up looking like something out of orange county choppers.

[flthead]

just curious here roland , do you even know the history of bobbers ?

[jke]

Originally posted by flthead
just curious here roland , do you even know the history of bobbers ?

I'll bet that it goes no farther than Newspaper accounts of Hollister 1947 and scenes from the Wild One!