In 2011, "American Chopper" hosted a three-way bike building competition, with the winner to be determined by audience vote. Besides Paul Teutul Sr. representing Orange County Choppers, there were ...

The Chopper, published by Gestalten, tells the story of that evolution, from the 1904 bike believed to be the first "truly custom motorcycle" and the bike gangs that terrified America in the 1950s ...

‘American Chopper’ build-off bikes revealed. Dec. 5, ... he was a blue-collar artisan who’d grown a homemade TV show into a cultural phenomenon and a motorcycle shop into an empire.

After 10 years, Discovery Channel is ending “American Chopper. ... The series had a simple format — a father and son building custom motorcycles amid frequent infighting.

The chopper is a byproduct born from this dynamic transition of form over function. It didn't magically just appear one day in the 1950s. No, they evolved from the motorcycle commonly known as the ...