If you watched both the show on the build off the fans had already voted 61% for Jr., 37% Jesse & 1% Sr., before they ever saw any of the bikes built, it was a popularity based internet voting contest, not a real bike builders contest... I want to qualify some of the statements I made in my earlier post & kind of explain why, I feel the way I do... JUST AN OPINION, You know I have watch American Chopper show from the start, like many of you I'm sure, I don't much care for anyone, who has a bad working attitude, bad work habits, bad work ethics, like Jr. has {or at least how he's portrayed on the reality show}... Jesse got out of bike building for a few years, after selling West Coast Choppers, I always have like the simplicity & style of his bike builds & the fact he does or can do, all of the management duties, in house CNC & machine work, welding, fabrication, sheet metal, engine builds, wiring, suspension, frames, design etc... I'm sure most of you know the story... Jr. has only been assembling bikes for maybe 10 years now, he still can't wire them, he has someone else build, buy & fabricate most all of the rest of the bikes, he can't build motors, he's not a mechanic, he doesn't do sheet metal or at least very rarely, except the gody crap like the web theme stuff, the wheels are delivered not done in house, {like Jesse & Sr.}, the suspension is delivered not done in house, he's an manager/assembler really, not really a bike builder... Again Just In My Honest Opinion... I think his "Mustang p-51" themed bike for the "build off" is pretty cool, huge but pretty cool, but totally unusable, I just prefer a bike that can be ridden, just like cars, they need to be used for what they are intended for, not a "no go show boat" or "Trailer Queen" display type bike, like many of the theme bike builds were... Again just my opinion,I think he's riding on his father shirt tails, for most of his adult life, he self proclaimed, he didn't like motorcycles & didn't like fabrication work, now he's got his 20% of the multi-million dollar company his father started from scratch 20+ years ago, he knows nothing else to do to make money {he worked for his father in his Iron works co. pryer}, now he has his own shop & sees how hard it is to run people, make payroll, make a go of the business world, his tune has changed some, he's far more committed to his shop/craft then he was ever at OCC, now he needs to earn it himself instead of getting it handed to him, now maybe he will respect the trade his father gave him, literally, made him & his lazy a$$ brother Mikey a pretty damn good life... I have met both, Jesse & Sr. when in So Cal at the Roadster Show a few years ago, they were both pretty cool, neither was the on screen persona that they seem to portray, Jr. was very stand offish & unapproachable TV persona/star mentality it seemed... With out the show & his crew he would be still working for his dad a an assembler... AGAIN ALL THIS IS JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE, JUST AN OPINION
