| Author | Message | ||
     Vegasbueller |
Gotta see this one on ebay! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=35560&item=4504177128&rd= 1 Glitch at work again? | ||
| Hoser |
That's my listing , a ten week layoff has forced me to , ...... um , start cleaning out the garage. Lot's of other stuff for sale too ! , more to follow. The S1 is molten orange / carbon fibre now , the orange tank , being greater capacity is more usefull to me. | ||
| Vegasbueller |
Dang... Sorry to hear that bro. Working in the airline industry, I know all too well about layoffs. Good luck on getting back to work! Nick | ||
| Newfie_buell |
Hoser, Move to Newfoundland and open up a custom bike shop!!!! | ||
| Awprior |
Newfie, I'm still tempted to come up there for school... We're all going to end up there. The place is AWESOME! Hope the family is doing well! Alex | ||
| Blublak |
AWWWWwwww.. Vegas, you're gonna git in trouble now.. that big time celebr'ty is gonna sue you for usin' his likeness without permission or (more importantly) re-com-pence! You really do like to live dangerously huh? Later, | ||
| Vegasbueller |
Blu: Hey dude, that wasn't my auction. I just got a kick out of the guys artwork. We really wouldn't want those yayhoos getting involved with anything Buell really would we?  | ||
| Hoser |
Fella's............. a harmless prank , I could easily replace the pic with something more tastfull , I am simply trying to get attention to the auction listing by using humour. Newfie_buell : How much af a market is there for a motorcycle / custom / repair business is there on the rock ? . This area has reached the saturation point , seems every other month another "chopper" store opens up , my gut feeling is the time is not right to launch yet another one here. | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
You'd need to expand into custom parts for snowmobiles!  | ||
| Newfie_buell |
Well Hoser, There is absolutely NO custom bike shops here on the island. The time is ticking before one starts up and I am thinking with the right kind of marketing it could turn into something BIG. Wish I had the money/resources to start something!!! Lets put it this way - there only ONE Harley Retailer and ONE independent Harley Shop that also is a Suzuki Retailer. I am sure if one were to open shop and provide good service and accessibility to parts you could make a decent living working on things you like. | ||
| Tramp |
funny thing 'bout OCC and our area of 'The OC-NY' there are MANY chopper shops hereabouts,I mean like wto dozen within a half-hour drive of me. OCC is relatively new, and pretty much still considered to be a joke in these parts. I used to deal with them when they were still a steel-fabricator shop whose managers rode gay-••• softtails. just a ahlf-mile from them a bunch of ex-employees have a much, much nicer custom shop (east side choppers). This county has a VERY strong motorcycle community which predates the relatively recent "harley rage". some excellent racers came from The OC, great race-shops and an inordinate number of hardcore riders considering the short-season here in NYS. Please don't get the idea that anyone here in the OC even likes these schmendricks. They're but a source of embarrassment to us all. I do give 'em props, though, for their excellent marketing. They deserve a LOT of credit in that department. | ||
| Buelluk |
They are a joke in Ulster County as well | ||
| Steve_mackay |
The only good thing about OCC is Mikey  | ||
| Tramp |
yeah, buelluk- looks like we ride a lot of the same roads up about the 'gunks  i have shot of me posted standing alongside me rat on 44/55, up by the lookout on the w. side of minnewaska (Message edited by tramp on November 19, 2004) | ||
| Davegess |
Now these guys have a cologne! I thought tough biker guys didn't use cologne? | ||
| Blublak |
Oh man.. One of these days, I'm gonna have to get a buddy of mine that has some of the 'inside' info on them and their show to post here.. You guys'd get a kick out of some of what he has to say about their.. uh.. 'tough built' bikes.. Later, | ||
| Tramp  |
blublack, a friend of mine with a shop down the road from these asspirates was doing their inspections. their bikes are sooooo infamous for falling aprt...dangerously | ||
| Phillyblast  |
"So I'm thinkin' what this bike really needs . . . wait for it . . . . is some diamond plate."  | ||
| Blublak  |
Tramp (Jay) yeah, that was what my bud's been telling me.. gave me a couple of stories of some of the 'famous' TV bikes that dropped parts right after (some before) their customer gets the bike. Please, how can you 'build bikes as a business' and not know how to secure a fender? Or worse, some of the controls possibly dropping off / failing while your riding it? Oh, do you know how they got that TV show? | ||
| Jerseyguy  |
I spent some time with Vinnie this summer at a chopper show in Maryland. He seemed like a nice, down to earth guy. He took my XB for a spin on the coastal highway in Ocean City. Said he liked it and that he thought it pulled really hard.   | ||
| Tramp |
"Oh, do you know how they got that TV show?" i always assumed it was for the reason jerseyguy quotes above... they "pulled really hard"   hey jerseyguy- you see many 'penguins' (mc)down there in oc/md? | ||
| Buells Rule! (Dyna in disguise)  |
The bike they built for Leno ended up having an issue that supposedly didnt sit too well with jay. Riding the bike & it dies, wont restart. Turns out that they wired the ignition thru the tailight. Blow the bulb & the whole bike just dies. Gotta hand it to them though, they have a hell of a marketing scheme right now & are loaded with $$. | ||
| Tramp |
can't fault 'em for their mkt'g and their success. sincerest kudos for that | ||
| Ocbueller  |
Local aftermarket shop in our area was working on a customers OCC bike. The mechanic had a pretty serious wreck on the bike after the frame failed during a test ride. Don't know the outcome of the several lawsuits I'm sure ensued. I was told the frames are made by another branch of the same family. SteveH | ||
| Bud  |
don't surprise me, some one told me last week that J.James is selling his autograph on bike's to who ever pay's for it, the bike will end up as a JJ bike, but are build by some low live cheap rip off builder with a very poor sens for quality |
