Custom Built Choppers Guide

Similar to many motorcycle enthusiasts, I just love chopper's from the incredible detail of OCC choppers all the way to the Bad Boy Bikes of Jesse James, there is just one hold back however and that is I just don't have mountains of spare cash floating around to buy my perfect, ideal hand built chopper, so what are the alternatives? There are two fairly straightforward approaches to getting what we are after, the choice is whether to buy or build it yourself. Obviously both avenues have their own individual unique drawbacks, and as you may have gathered there is quite a bit of cost involved with either route that you take. Buying a chopper is by far the quickest, easiest and in many cases the safest option to take. Here I explain what I think are the options available to you.

Buying a chopper outright is definitely the fastest way and indeed has a great many advantages especially if like me, you are a very busy individual with not too much time on your hands. Too, you can rest assured that the bike you buy has likely been built by a professional and therefore you will know with all due diligence that the chopper you are about to acquire is indeed a very safe bike to purchase, not just for you, but also for all the other road users out there. If you are prepared to buy outright, you have many options that you can take later on too, if you decide to carry out any modifications to put your own individual stamp on the chopper motorbike itself. Also buying these days a chopper in the aftermarket is a pretty easy process with a great deal of options available to you. To get a good general idea of the kind of bike you may be after, have a look through the listings on ebay where there is a good choice usually on offer with highly detailed photographs displayed alongside each bike too. Sometimes though, buying a second user machine you are likely somewhere along the line, going to have to make compromises, but at the end of the day, it's up to you how far you are willing to bend, to source your perfectly ideal, chopper motorbike.

The other option if you have the time, the expertise and the money is to either build one yourself from scratch or have a chopper motorcycle hand built for you by a professional. This will obviously take a great deal of time but the overall result is much more likely to be a bike with which you can ultimately enjoy your very own personal relationship with as you learn all about it's individual characteristics and road handling ability etc.

Whichever option you choose to go with, may we wish all fellow bikers a happy and safe touring summer in 2008!

By: Mark Andrews

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