My attraction to choppers and bobbers is for their original, postwar concept of performance on the cheap. They were the first bikes whose attitude surpassed their engineering. In the 1940s and '50s bikes were overweight and underpowered, but forget about prototyping parts on a Bridgeport; an afternoon with a hacksaw and a six-pack was a "man's" route to creating a hopped-up machine.
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