Everyone wanted to go fast.90's and up TV went to everyones head and again it was cool to chop but TV killed it for a lot of small shops everyone thought you had to buy a $60,000 bike to be cool and the YUPS KILLED IT. ![]() I still built choppes but i was doing more high performance motor work than i ever did. ![]() 80's we went to fast bikes CROTCH ROCKETS and everyone had them and nobody wanted a CHOPPED BIKE but a HARLEY GUY. I was a HONDA DEALER THEN and couldn't keep them in the store. After EASYRIDER all hell broke loose and all i chopped was HARLEY'S and CB 750 HONDAS (ALL HARD TAIL) The 70's started to change things and HONDA KAWASAKI came out with cool fast bikes and sold MANY. The 60's everyone wanted a chopped bike after the movies ran all the outlaw biker movies. ![]() I don't know how old you are but in the 50's thats all there was until the swing arm came into play in the mid 50's.
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