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…)
This video was filmed with an Insta360 One X camera. Custom choppers ride to downtown San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter for the last day of the huge Comic-Con convention.
Eight custom chopper riders leave from the North Park area of San Diego for the short ride to Fifth Avenue in the Gaslamp Quarter. (more…)
Chopper motorcycles ride to downtown San Diego’s GasLamp Quarter for the last day of Comic-Con. Yes, this is the place to be and be seen for comic book fans, cosplayers and pop culture lovers alike to assemble at the San Diego Convention Center.
California chopper motorcycles
We had Big Dog motorcycles, American Ironhorse motorcycles, Thunder Mountain and custom construction motorcycles on this ride to Fifth Avenue in San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter for the last day of the annual Comic-Con convention. (more…)
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…)
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…)
This is a little video retrospective of some of the chopper motorcycles that I’ve owned over the years.
I grew up on the East Coast and that’s where my passion for high-powered chopper motorcycles began. Actually my first motorcycle was an old 1950 something Harley-Davison with a suicide shift.
