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Jim Stewart
 
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Default American Chopper episode got even more reckless

RDF wrote:

I liked how Mr. Genius made the pipe canon version... Now that was cool. I
bet the majority of us really learned how to make acetylene bag bombs back
in High school (c-mon, admit it, it was fun!). I was surprised to see Mr.
Steroid Sr. touch it off and laugh for once. That was well worth it (We did
not think it was possible) Too bad you have to be an ex-druggie/junkie to
get noticed for TV on this episode however (Sorry, no sympathy for bad life
choices). Great episode- Bad candidate for the bike however. (Just my $.02
cent opinion)


I wished they would make a distinction between "bikers"
and "chopper riders/posers"

The sadsack guy that got the bike went on and on about
how he wanted a bike so bad but couldn't afford one.
Why the fsk didn't he do what we did when we wanted a
bike, buy a beater for $500 and learn how to fix it?

The reality was that he didn't want a bike, he wanted
a $30,000 custom chopper. And that made his life complete.