Big Bear Performance Video directed and produced by BBC in 2003 , pulled from our archives . Featuring Industry Leaders narrated by Dave Nichols of Easyriders Magazine
After 55 years of riding I still love it I grew up on a farm and rode and trained horses rode Bull's and loved every minute of it as well but my heart was always on the back of a bike
Unfortunately you don't build choppers anymore.. You were one of the best if not the best Chopper designer/builder.. Sad ending to such an amazing Product 🙁
Thanks for the great video , i grew up around the time when choppers were really hot 70.s and 80.s my first street bike was a honda 350 chopper i was hooked for sure i have been riding for almost 50 years i ride an ultra classic now but i will always love the chopper keep them going young guys and gals
I have an Athena big bear chopper and absolutely love it one of the best chopper I’ve owned handles incredible, it always draws a crowd when I have it out
I was curious as to when this was made. I can tell from some of the footage it was 2003. But surprisingly nothing comes up when I Google the producers, director, and featured people. Really appreciated it, though, specifically because it doesn't include Jesse James or OC.
In 80s-90s i was buying up chopper parts for pennies on the dollar. Springers,girders ,frames and all sorts of stuff. I now sell some parts for hundreds. Just recently sold a coffin tank I paid $5 for in 1982( never used) for $200. Im a hoarder when it comes to bike and car parts.
HAMC England need to be thanked for the great Kent Custom bike show with over 50000 bikers in a field with music was fabulous and good value and not too many fuzz at the beginning. We loved the hot, sexy women, wet T shirt competition titties and beer, gigs with rock and blues band.. Many of us lived with motorbikes in our bedrooms in the winter with lots of parties, offen getting out of hand with partying drink spliff and tripping. Amazing times but youd have the straights, beer monsters then the hippies bikers, heads, tattoos, some heavy metal types in motorhead cutoffs, others punks with mohahawks and it became more and more mainstream. Im in my 60s and still live to ride, ride to live but travelling on the bike was my passion and ive ridden in Australia and even in India which was fantastic. Its all about enjoying your life and living your passion for bikes and some here ended up becoming despatch riders in London and these guys were hardcore, riding summer, winter even in ice, snow, rain, high winds. Bikes would become rat bikes often because we were often broke, some squatting but we done the wrenching b efore you tube and learned the hard way but nowadays the youngsters often cant time a motor with magneto ignition, work on carburetors on pre unit bikes or even japanese UJM like 650 yams or honda cbs suzuki GS or kawasaki Z series motors but they were great, simpler, no fuel injection to go wrong or over complicated electrical nightmare like today but at least Enfields and triumph twins are still easy to work on. With mechanics charging a weeks wages or more to do the shims on a motor, forget buying a ducati with desmo valves. It costs an arm and a leg to get a service. Imagine working on a vfr honda or even a yamaha supertenere 1200 to do the shims. Thats why many royal enfields are sold or even basic hondas like transalps, yamaha bolts and suzuki v stroms and sv650s but so many of us love the old bikes like the suzuki GS1000s as you know its simple, bombproof and fast enough as theres speed cameras everywhere.
Yes Norton couldve built a nicer custom but my goodness it sounded amazing, handled better than anything else. You obviously dont have any idea about 60s 70s i0s and 90s cruisers.. My generation rode them, blew them up, rebuilt them and read back street heroes and easyriders and we would modify and strip off all the rubbish but many people would change things like handlebars, shock absorbers, exhausts and seats. Commandos would have aftermarket more open exhausts, flat track bars or even us bonny bars, different seats. KHarleys were bikes for well off people in the 1970s and 1980s and they were unreliable. Old 1950s BSA twins were a few hundred quid secondhand and the frames were beautifully crafted so if you put on a bonneville front end with lockheed brake calipers, it stopped well and handling was far far better than any harley. We loved the 1940s and 1950s indian and harley v twins but they lost the plot. AMF shouldve stuck to bowling.
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Nothing last forever but if you wait long enough, it will come back in style again.
Not if we can't buy gasoline anymore. Which will only be in a few years.
Old school Chopers never go out of Style they were cool then and now just as cool
The term "old-school" went out of style 15 years ago 😂
@@kurtfoulke5130 Old school never die what is cool today will be old school tomorrow
@@whatyoumakeofit6635 Do you know any thing about History or the future 🤔 lol
After 55 years of riding I still love it I grew up on a farm and rode and trained horses rode Bull's and loved every minute of it as well but my heart was always on the back of a bike
Unfortunately you don't build choppers anymore.. You were one of the best if not the best Chopper designer/builder.. Sad ending to such an amazing Product 🙁
No truer words were spoken dude.everything now a days is bought off the internet or catalogs.all the old school craftsmanship is dieing out sadly
Thanks for the great video , i grew up around the time when choppers were really hot 70.s and 80.s my first street bike was a honda 350 chopper i was hooked for sure i have been riding for almost 50 years i ride an ultra classic now but i will always love the chopper keep them going young guys and gals
I have an Athena big bear chopper and absolutely love it one of the best chopper I’ve owned handles incredible, it always draws a crowd when I have it out
I was curious as to when this was made. I can tell from some of the footage it was 2003. But surprisingly nothing comes up when I Google the producers, director, and featured people. Really appreciated it, though, specifically because it doesn't include Jesse James or OC.
I'm 66 and still ride a chopper every day I have sports bikes also
In 80s-90s i was buying up chopper parts for pennies on the dollar. Springers,girders ,frames and all sorts of stuff. I now sell some parts for hundreds. Just recently sold a coffin tank I paid $5 for in 1982( never used) for $200. Im a hoarder when it comes to bike and car parts.
I grew up with a MC and remembered the old days when my Dad would put me on the tank and go for a ride on his hot rod Harley laber
RIP DAVID
Built many choppers in my 66 years I'm tec engineer and 6gl pipe welder fabricator
I always like factory bikes
Iv built many choppers in my 66 years
I thought Big Bear Choppers went out of business? I looked it up and saw Big Bear performance in San Bernardino?
They have a small shop in SB where they’re trying to make back all the money they lost back then.
When they started covering the bikes with topless hot wild women, so many readers would blow a gasket and sales went through the roof.
HAMC England need to be thanked for the great Kent Custom bike show with over 50000 bikers in a field with music was fabulous and good value and not too many fuzz at the beginning. We loved the hot, sexy women, wet T shirt competition titties and beer, gigs with rock and blues band.. Many of us lived with motorbikes in our bedrooms in the winter with lots of parties, offen getting out of hand with partying drink spliff and tripping. Amazing times but youd have the straights, beer monsters then the hippies bikers, heads, tattoos, some heavy metal types in motorhead cutoffs, others punks with mohahawks and it became more and more mainstream. Im in my 60s and still live to ride, ride to live but travelling on the bike was my passion and ive ridden in Australia and even in India which was fantastic. Its all about enjoying your life and living your passion for bikes and some here ended up becoming despatch riders in London and these guys were hardcore, riding summer, winter even in ice, snow, rain, high winds. Bikes would become rat bikes often because we were often broke, some squatting but we done the wrenching b efore you tube and learned the hard way but nowadays the youngsters often cant time a motor with magneto ignition, work on carburetors on pre unit bikes or even japanese UJM like 650 yams or honda cbs suzuki GS or kawasaki Z series motors but they were great, simpler, no fuel injection to go wrong or over complicated electrical nightmare like today but at least Enfields and triumph twins are still easy to work on. With mechanics charging a weeks wages or more to do the shims on a motor, forget buying a ducati with desmo valves. It costs an arm and a leg to get a service. Imagine working on a vfr honda or even a yamaha supertenere 1200 to do the shims. Thats why many royal enfields are sold or even basic hondas like transalps, yamaha bolts and suzuki v stroms and sv650s but so many of us love the old bikes like the suzuki GS1000s as you know its simple, bombproof and fast enough as theres speed cameras everywhere.
Been refused in many places in my bike life
And yet you didn’t mention Laconia N.H? The oldest motorcycle rally in America. Yawn.
I remember that
40:03 "today's choppers are, uh, sport bikes, ya know"
Lol. No
how about chopping up the editing a Lil more
Yes Norton couldve built a nicer custom but my goodness it sounded amazing, handled better than anything else. You obviously dont have any idea about 60s 70s i0s and 90s cruisers.. My generation rode them, blew them up, rebuilt them and read back street heroes and easyriders and we would modify and strip off all the rubbish but many people would change things like handlebars, shock absorbers, exhausts and seats. Commandos would have aftermarket more open exhausts, flat track bars or even us bonny bars, different seats. KHarleys were bikes for well off people in the 1970s and 1980s and they were unreliable. Old 1950s BSA twins were a few hundred quid secondhand and the frames were beautifully crafted so if you put on a bonneville front end with lockheed brake calipers, it stopped well and handling was far far better than any harley. We loved the 1940s and 1950s indian and harley v twins but they lost the plot. AMF shouldve stuck to bowling.
Built many choppers in my 66 years I'm tec engineer and 6gl pipe welder fabricator