Big Dog K9 motorcycle

Chopper Motorcycle Night Southern California

Chopper Motorcycle Night at the Torque Moto Cafe

Chopper Motorcycle Night – It’s always a pleasure to see a gathering of good looking custom chopper motorcycles. Many consider the custom chopper to be a rolling work of art. You could have a hundred stock Harleys at a meetup and just two choppers. It’s a sure bet the more cell phone photos will be taken of the two choppers, than all the combined photos of the Harley baggers. (more…)

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360° Chopper Motorcycle ride

Big Dog k9 360° chopper ride – Insta360 One X

A short chopper ride from San Diego to El Cajon California. El Cajon is just east of San Diego California. My bike is a 2017 Big Dog k9 clone with a Insta360 One X camera mounted on a selfi-stick, attached with clamps to the base of the handlebars.

California chopper motorcycle ride

The other bikes were a Big Bear Athena chopper, and two custom builds. The ride was to the El Cajon Classic Cruise Bike Night. (more…)

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San Diego Motorcycle Event

San Diego Motorcycle Event

Majestic Wine Mixer fund raiser for Cammies & Canines, an amazing organization saving lives 2 at a time. Their mission to end Veteran homelessness is paired with rescuing dogs from being euthanized. A great cause, an exceptional event and many good looking motorcycles.

I guess technically you can and say this was a San Diego motorcycle event, but, because there were so many bikers with good-looking bikes there, it may as well have been. Besides the ever present Harleys, there was a good-looking Big Bear chopper, big dog K-9, a number of good-looking rigid choppers and even one of the lowest to the ground Honda choppers that I’ve ever seen. (more…)

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DIY 360° video of your motorcycle rides

Best camera for getting 360° video of your motorcycle rides

360° video of your motorcycle rides – – This is a short demonstration video of using my Insta360 One x video camera on my 2017 Big Dog k9 clone. Because the camera films everything in 360°, you really don’t have to worry about aiming it at any specific point or in any direction.

When using the manufacturers app for editing the video you can decide what angles and what scenes or special effects are applied to the video. Once the video is edited, you can export it as a regular ‘flat’ video. With a normal video camera you could never get all these different directional shots. Actually, in order to do that, you would have to, let’s say shoot facing forward, then stop and remount the camera so it’s facing backward, then stop again, and change the camera to point out to the right side, etc.. With this camera, because everything is captured, you can decide what shots you want to include in the final video and also make some incredible special effects. (more…)

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Insta360 One X Chopper Motorcycles Ride

Insta360 One X Chopper Motorcycles Ride

Is the Insta360 One X the best 360° video camera for your motorcycle rides? Well, in my humble opinion at the current time it definitely is!


This camera is very small fits in your shirt pocket and yet takes stunning 5.7 K video! The best advantage of using a camera like this for your motorcycle rides is the fact that it is like having a camera person riding along with you. You really don’t have to worry about pointing the camera at any particular subject or direction because at 360° camera like this films everything. In the software that the company provides you can then edit the video to show the views that you feel are most interesting.

When watching this video, at times you’ll see that it seems like the camera is floating over my helmet. In reality, the camera is attached with a GoPro type attachment to the helmet. (more…)

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Big Dog k9 Motorcycle

This is a 2017 Big Dog k9 motorcycle.

Many motorcycle enthusiast consider the Big Dog K9 motorcycle to be the best factory built chopper ever made. The K-9 was the top-of-the-line, the flagship motorcycle for Big Dog.

In my personal opinion I believe the Big Dog K-9 and the American Ironhorse Texas Chopper are both tied for the distinction of best factory built chopper motorcycle. Big Dog Motorcycles shutdown making motorcycles in 2011 and a couple years later went bankrupt. Just a few years ago, the company came back, though on a much scaled-down operation. Up until 2011, the K-9 motorcycle came with the S&S 117 ci engine. Since the company has been back in operation the K9 motorcycle now comes with the S&S 124 ci engine.

The S&S 124 cubic inch V124 engine  has 10.8:1 compression • 4-1/8″ bore X 4-5/8″ stroke, electric compression release, S&S Super G carburetor and two year warranty

Disclaimer

NOT LEGAL FOR SALE OR USE IN CALIFORNIA ON ANY POLLUTION CONTROLLED MOTOR VEHICLE. NOT LEGAL FOR SALE OR USE ON ANY EPA POLLUTION CONTROLLED MOTOR VEHICLE.

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Custom Chopper Motorcycles

Video slide show – Custom Chopper Motorcycles

What chopper rider doesn’t like to look at other cool bikes?

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: A chopper is a type of custom motorcycle which emerged in California in the late 1950s. The chopper is perhaps the most extreme of all custom styles, often using radically modified steering angles and lengthened forks for a stretched-out appearance. They can be built from an original motorcycle which is modified (“chopped”) or built from scratch. Some of the characteristic features of choppers are long front ends with extended forks often coupled with an increased rake angle, hardtail frames (frames without rear suspension), very tall “ape hanger” or very short “drag” handlebars, lengthened or stretched frames, and larger than stock front wheels. The “sissy bar”, a set of tubes that connect the rear fender with the frame, and which are often extended several feet high, is a signature feature on many choppers. Perhaps the best known choppers are the two customized Harley-Davidsons, the “Captain America” and “Billy Bike”, seen in the 1969 film Easy Rider. (more…)

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