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Chopper (motorcycle)

Index Chopper (motorcycle)

A chopper is a type of custom motorcycle which emerged in California in the late 1950s. [1]

32 relations: American Chopper, Australian Design Rules, Bobber (motorcycle), BSA motorcycles, Café racer, Car, Custom motorcycle, Discovery Channel, Easy Rider, Ed Roth, Fuel tank, Harley-Davidson, Headlamp, Indian Larry, Indian Motocycle Manufacturing Company, Indian Scout (motorcycle), Jesse James (customizer), Matchless, Minimalism, Norton Motorcycle Company, Orange County Choppers, Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling, S&S Cycle, Saddle, Sissy bar, Softail, Television, The Art of the Motorcycle, Triumph Motorcycles Ltd, Universal Japanese Motorcycle, V-twin engine, West Coast Choppers.

American Chopper

American Chopper is an American reality television series that aired on Discovery Channel from 2003 to 2010, produced by Pilgrim Films & Television.

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Australian Design Rules

The Australian Design Rules (ADRs) are Australia's national technical standards for vehicle safety, theft resistance, and emissions.

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Bobber (motorcycle)

A bobber, originally called a 'bob-job' from the 1930s through 1990s, is a style of custom motorcycle.

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BSA motorcycles

BSA motorcycles were made by The Birmingham Small Arms Company Limited (BSA) which was a major British industrial combine, a group of businesses manufacturing military and sporting firearms; bicycles; motorcycles; cars; buses and bodies; steel; iron castings; hand, power, and machine tools; coal cleaning and handling plants; sintered metals; and hard chrome process.

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Café racer

A café racer is a lightweight, lightly powered motorcycle optimized for speed and handling rather than comfort – and for quick rides over short distances.

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Car

A car (or automobile) is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transportation.

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Custom motorcycle

A custom motorcycle is a motorcycle with stylistic and/or structural changes to the 'standard' mass-produced machine offered by major manufacturers.

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Discovery Channel

Discovery Channel (known as The Discovery Channel from 1985 to 1995, and often referred to as simply Discovery) is an American pay television channel that is the flagship television property of Discovery Inc., a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav.

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Easy Rider

Easy Rider is a 1969 American independent road drama film written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda, and directed by Hopper.

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Ed Roth

Ed "Big Daddy" Roth (March 4, 1932 – April 4, 2001) was an artist, cartoonist, illustrator, pinstriper and custom car designer and builder who created the hot rod icon Rat Fink and other characters.

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Fuel tank

A fuel tank (or petrol tank) is a safe container for flammable fluids.

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Harley-Davidson

Harley-Davidson, Inc. (H-D), or Harley, is an American motorcycle manufacturer, founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1903.

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Headlamp

A headlamp is a lamp attached to the front of a vehicle to light the road ahead.

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Indian Larry

Indian Larry (born Lawrence DeSmedt; April 28, 1949 – August 30, 2004) was a noted motorcycle builder and artist, stunt rider, and biker.

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Indian Motocycle Manufacturing Company

Indian is an American brand of motorcycles Spelling as per, 1929-31 originally produced from 1901 to 1953 in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.

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Indian Scout (motorcycle)

The Indian Scout is a motorcycle built by the Motocycle Company from 1920 to 1949.

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Jesse James (customizer)

Jesse Gregory James (born April 19, 1969) is an American television personality and former CEO of Austin, Texas-based Austin Speed Shop.

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Matchless

Matchless is one of the oldest marques of British motorcycles, manufactured in Plumstead, London, between 1899 and 1966.

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Minimalism

In visual arts, music, and other mediums, minimalism is an art movement that began in post–World War II Western art, most strongly with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s.

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Norton Motorcycle Company

The Norton Motorcycle Company (formerly Norton Motors, Ltd.) is a British motorcycle marque, originally from Birmingham, UK.

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Orange County Choppers

Orange County Choppers (OCC) is a motorcycle manufacturer and lifestyle brand company based in the town of Newburgh, located in Orange County, New York, that was founded in 1999 by Paul Teutul Sr., The company was featured on American Chopper, a reality TV show that debuted in September 2002 on the Discovery Channel.

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Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling

The following outline is provided as an overview of motorcycles and motorcycling: Motorcycle — two-wheeled, single-track motor vehicle.

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S&S Cycle

S&S Cycle is an American motorcycle engine and parts engineer and manufacturer.

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Saddle

The saddle is a supportive structure for a rider or other load, fastened to an animal's back by a girth.

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Sissy bar

A sissy bar, also called a "sister bar", "passenger backrest" and sometimes in chopper motorcycle culture a "bitch stick" is an addition to the rear of a bicycle or motorcycle that allows the rider or passenger to recline against it while riding.

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Softail

The term softail refers to motorcycles and bicycles that feature a hidden rear suspension system with springs or shock absorbers to absorb bumps.

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Television

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.

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The Art of the Motorcycle

The Art of the Motorcycle was an exhibition that presented 114 motorcycles chosen for their historic importance or design excellenceSawetz.

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Triumph Motorcycles Ltd

Triumph Motorcycles Ltd is the largest British motorcycle manufacturer, established in 1983 by John Bloor after the original company Triumph Engineering went into receivership.

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Universal Japanese Motorcycle

The term "Universal Japanese Motorcycle", or UJM, is a term coined in the mid-1970s by Cycle Magazine to describe a proliferation of similar Japanese standard motorcycles that became commonplace following Honda's 1969 introduction of its successful CB750.

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V-twin engine

A V-twin engine, also called a V2 engine, is a two-cylinder internal combustion engine where the cylinders are arranged in a V configuration.

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West Coast Choppers

West Coast Choppers (WCC) is a brand that began selling screen-printed T-shirts and stickers with the company's Iron cross/Maltese cross logo while founder and "master marketer" Jesse James was finishing high school, packaging the accoutrements of the chopper lifestyle long before any actual West Coast Choppers customs had been ordered or sold.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chopper_(motorcycle)

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