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140 mph??? Maybe dropped out the back of a C 130. More HP than a car?? My wife's old '89 civic, yes. Jeez, straight from the Dan Rather school of Journalism. Check back with Jesse in five years.

 

Jesse who?

 

"Do you have a dark spot on your past?"

 

Could someone please enlighten Jesse to the fact others have indeed built flying cars.



You'd think the "reporter" might point that out.



And you've got to chuckle at the "one of the best built motorcycles in the world" nonsense. I mean, could a news organization actually learn a little bit about motorcycles before they go believing that crap?



Oh, well, it is CBS. Forgot that for a moment.

 

If Harleys are for dorks.....

I guess that means that the guy I saw riding his chopper down the 405 near Long Beach in the rain wearing flip flops and and a ball cap backwards must be REALLY COOL.

 

Thats sad, just very very sad. The self deluded hyperbole, the me macho you not, the WallMart thing gave me the creeps, the total lack of fact checking (best built motorcycles travelling to sturgis with chase vans full of spare parts comes to mind). Yea its CBS the bastions of verifiable facts (well look at the competition) but that was just weird!

What really re-warped my sense of how bizare actors are is the fact that he is dating Sandra Bullock.



Cats sleeping with dogs, rains of pestilence around the corner.

 

Hey, at least it wasn't about the goof balls on

American Chopper. In the realm of chopperdom, Jesse is light years ahead of their hack-work.



The entire scene gives me a big ho-hum yawn, but the masses lap it up like so many centerfold clams. So be it.



Anyone remember Patrick Bodden's 2-part indictment of the Teutuls? Seems for a while a lot of print rags were hammering them pretty good. I think Fred Rau had a column titled "Orange County Crap". Classic moments all that reaffirmed my take on the whole thing.



JB did a CW spread on Mr. James...I remember it being flattering and I do believe JJ has a penchant for sportbikes too.



The renegade outlaw image sells, but perhaps the guy is a genuine enthusiast too...albeit a tad....gasp...squidly.

 

It is not at all hard for me to believe his bikes could hit 140mph.



I just watched some show where a woman got a 125cc bike up to 135 or so out on the dry lakes. He's got 10x the engine, so it is not hard to believe. Some Ducati monsters can hit those speeds and they don't have good aerodynamics either, hell haven't bikes been doing 140mph for a long, long time?



Unfortunately CBS seems to only allow you to watch the first minute and a half but the reporters questions were so direct his attitude seemed pretty natural even defensive. Whatever is the case, she obviously doesn't "get" motorcycles, and Jesse knew that and was taking advantage of her. He is obviously a motorcyclist when he says his bikes are meant to be ridden and it's silly to put them in a museum even when he knows he is catering to people who show off more than ride.



I am not exactly going to go buy one but if you ask me what is cooler, one of his choppers, or a Harley, I would have to say his is indeed "cooler". If you said I could have either one for free I'd take his too. In that sense he is a success.

 

I hope he does a wheelie with her on the back.

 

If you lined up a bunch of stuff for FREE in front of me, and I could choose what to put in that line, I guarantee one of his "cool" bikes wouldn't even be close.

 

Yea man, like he's really cool and like its just cool and like... It is really satisfying to build something by hand and then use it and bask in its glory, but if its one of the best built bikes in the world, why are his hands hurting at stop lights? Oh, i guess good bikes are designed to do that...

 

I remember seeing one of his shows a while back. He was riding an stood on the pegs (I guess to relieve the pain in his ass)...and his seat flew off! Maybe I'm just picky, but for $150 grand I would hope all the parts would stay on the bike.

 

Okay,I wouldnt buy one of his 150 K creations even if I had the bucks......but the Dude has gathered fame and fortune doing what he enjoys and generally snubbing society while profiting from it. Im a "successful professional" who busts his ass for less a year than one of his bikes cost.......sio Im not gonna laugh at him cause he's a little delusional and builds bikes many of us think are funny. More power to him......and the dammed Teutels too. If you can become rich while having fun,you're way ahead of the rest of us and Im happy for you.

 

I'm curious about how a raked out chopper with a rigid rear end can handle better than a Harley. I guess if he was going for the advertising angle, his target demographic wouldn't know the difference. Maybe we can get Sean to do a track test with one of Jessie's bikes V.S. a Electraglide. (I have $50 on the Electraglide)

 

Chopper Track Tests?!?!?!?

Whoa - let's hope he has his life insurance paid up if he does that ;-)

But would he keep the red clown nose and open-face chrome helmet is the real question...

 

Well that was refreshing....



It's good to see someone with some skill turn a handsome profit from it, and he admits he's nothing but a glorified welder so power to him.

As far as his bikes and the people buying them, if you have to be "cool" and you're too lame to build your own I guess he's your man.

 

I'll volunteer my Geezer Glide and I'll even ride it.



No rigid long front end chopper has a chance on a curvy road.

 

Soak 'em if you got 'em.

 

You folks crack me up.



The guy is a freaking STUD! I'm pretty sure if I knew him personally that we wouldn't get along. Other than that what part of his lifestyle can you possibly argue with. He makes millions of dollars a year being himself playing with motorcycles. He's marketed his persona into a money generating machine. When he's not dating rock stars he dating porn stars. His commuter car is a Ferrari.



Uh hello! Is there supposed to be something "wrong" or "undesirable" about that? (membes of the clergy and retired nuns not withstanding). Maybe his bikes performance parameter are unverifiable or overinflated. So freaking what. As choppers go they are cool and they go like stink. He's not trying to build a cafe racer here. Although I did notice in CW that he built very nice one for Honda. He's not a one trick pony like the Tutles at OCC. He can build what interests him. Just watch monster garage.



Don't get me wrong. My life doesn't exactly suck. I do a pretty decent job hopping up and restoring vintage Kawi and Yamaha 2-strokes (one of my main passions) for a hobby. But I'd go to a Jesse James Fantasy camp anytime.



2-cents...

 

I don't have any problem with him making piles of cash ( I have a ball fleecing KPail's relatives), it's just that the whole chopper thing is so played.



I'm fantasizing about a Yamaha RD400. That was my dream ride as a young lad.



Watcha got for me?

 

I think you nailed it pretty well. I'd never begrudge Jesse his success (though I'd never throw money away on his schlock... I've got plenty other ways to throw it away). And he isn't the only person to make wild claims about his products by any means. Nor is he the only person to pretend exclusivity while pandering to the masses all the while.



I just thought the article was a big laugh and it showed how foolish it is to take any "news" article seriously.

 

Buzglyd.... come on over to the smoky side!

some boards that can get you started...

http://usa2strokers.com/forum/default.asp

http://b5.boards2go.com/boards/board.cgi?&user=yamahaley

http://kawasakitriplesworldwide.com/phpBB2/index.php

Always stuff on E-bay...

 

I always wanted an SR500. I think it'd be cool to have a thumper cafe` racer.



The chopper thing was played the second time one of the "bikers" got on TV with it.

 

Custom bikes are cool. I'm not overly interested in choppers because the engineering isn't super-trick blah blah blah - but that doesn't take away from the cool of custom. You have something that no-one else has. It's like a throwback to the days when you bought a car chassis, and then had a coachbuilder put the bodywork on it to suit your tastes.



The custom bike I'd want looks a lot more like a Ducati Desmosedici or an RC211V (and costs more than $150K, no doubt) - but that's because I'm kind of a nerd and words like reciprocating mass and forced induction make my naughty bits tingly.



That said, the article was a disaster. From what 3rd grade class did they pull that "author" anyway?



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