The Old School Chopper Show

Company MC want to keep alive the good old tradition of bikers who themselves builds and rides a personal type of bike, and for us nothing beats good old choppers. The show should concentrate on the way the choppers were built and looked like 30-40 years ago. A cool bike can be less cool with the owner riding it. If you have a small, low and compact bike, but you are over 2 meters tall and your fat & greasy (who aren't :-), then that cool bike will look rather funny on the road.
The show should be showing riding bikers, alone and in groups, with comments from the scene, and finally everyone should park their bikes, and the bikers themselves should vote for the coolest choppers.

But in Norway we often have something called RAIN, and on saturday when we were about to arrange the show, it just poured down from the sky. So, into the dry party-tent with the bikes, and off we went with a rather amputated show. There should be more pictures of the bikes here, but it was very crowded under the tent.

All those who wanted to show off their bikes placed them under the party-tent. Now the sun is shining again after the heavy rainfall. Typical !

Three british bikes
Most of us focuses on the Harley's nowadays, but both british and japanese choppers were more common in the seventies and the eighties.
The webmaster just had to bring his bike, too. This Evo-chopper will never be a show-winner. I got more bikes to spend my time and money on.

Ola's bike is definitely more a "New School Bike". That front end is of the very special homebuilt type.

More choppers
More bikes, behind John-Eiriks Iron-head Sportster chopper you can see two of the winners.

Another Sportster
Another cool Iron-head Sportster owned by a guy from Vingtor MC. It looks rather mean with a double-throat carburator and magneto-ignition, and a raked frame with springer front-end. Flames are very traditional.

More bikes
A Flathead and the brit-bikes again. No modern trendy bikes around ? Front ends
Early Shovel the classic way, with Texas-bars, small fatbobs and so on - cool !

Same bike seen from the other side. Behind it Arnes (from Custom Service) Early Shovel in classic swedish style and Gards Shovel named "Bulle".

The Sportster again
John-Eiriks Sportster and Ola's Twin Cam once more.
Unfortunately there were lots of other bikes worth a photo. One example is our friend from the mid-eighties Tony from Gothenburg. He rode up to Oslo with his genuine, bobbed and 40-styled, Texas-stroked Knucklehead.

Here we got the happy winners on stage. 1. prize to Trygve from Midgard MC in Asker, nearby Oslo. Runner-up was Tom from Denmark and third was Øyvind up north from Trøndelag.

Winner bikes
After the show, the winnerbikes were lined up outside the clubhouse.

!. prize
1 prize: Straightleg rigidframe Early Shovel with upsweep-pipes, moderate extended Hydra front-end, Texas bars, fatbobs, black paint. A classic chop all the way.

2. prize
Tom, our friend from Denmark, came second with his Eightball Knucklehead, upsweeps, springer, apehanger and special paint.

3. prize
Øyvind rode a long way with his Big Twin Flattie in a semi dirt-track style, nick named "Grus-spretter" in norwegian. Pep talk
A Flathead is really "Old School" and traditional. No Evo or Twin Cam here ! Not the firstchoice for those who like Gold Wings or Electra's

As usual the bikes were looked upon and discussed by the spectators.

To the tram
This kind of bike is the grand-father of the chopperbikes, with a history back to the thirties and forties.

Winners again
A last look at the winner-bikes late in the evening.

All those who wanted to show off their bikes placed them under the party-tent. Now the sun is shining again after the heavy rainfall. Typical !
Most of us focuses on the Harley's nowadays, but both british and japanese choppers were more common in the seventies and the eighties.	The webmaster just had to bring his bike, too. This Evo-chopper will never be a show-winner. I got more bikes to spend my time and money on.
Ola's bike is definitely more a "New School Bike". That front end is of the very special homebuilt type.
More bikes, behind John-Eiriks Iron-head Sportster chopper you can see two of the winners.
Another cool Iron-head Sportster owned by a guy from Vingtor MC. It looks rather mean with a double-throat carburator and magneto-ignition, and a raked frame with springer front-end. Flames are very traditional.
A Flathead and the brit-bikes again. No modern trendy bikes around ?	Early Shovel the classic way, with Texas-bars, small fatbobs and so on - cool !
Same bike seen from the other side. Behind it Arnes (from Custom Service) Early Shovel in classic swedish style and Gards Shovel named "Bulle".
John-Eiriks Sportster and Ola's Twin Cam once more. Unfortunately there were lots of other bikes worth a photo. One example is our friend from the mid-eighties Tony from Gothenburg. He rode up to Oslo with his genuine, bobbed and 40-styled, Texas-stroked Knucklehead.
Here we got the happy winners on stage. 1. prize to Trygve from Midgard MC in Asker, nearby Oslo. Runner-up was Tom from Denmark and third was Øyvind up north from Trøndelag.
After the show, the winnerbikes were lined up outside the clubhouse.
1 prize: Straightleg rigidframe Early Shovel with upsweep-pipes, moderate extended Hydra front-end, Texas bars, fatbobs, black paint. A classic chop all the way.
Tom, our friend from Denmark, came second with his Eightball Knucklehead, upsweeps, springer, apehanger and special paint.
Øyvind rode a long way with his Big Twin Flattie in a semi dirt-track style, nick named "Grus-spretter" in norwegian.	A Flathead is really "Old School" and traditional. No Evo or Twin Cam here ! Not the firstchoice for those who like Gold Wings or Electra's
As usual the bikes were looked upon and discussed by the spectators.
This kind of bike is the grand-father of the chopperbikes, with a history back to the thirties and forties.
A last look at the winner-bikes late in the evening.