If you’re anything like me and watch the Discovery Channel on a regular basis, then you know all about the biker build off between OCC, Paul Jr. Designs and Jesse James. I had all but forgotten that Jesse James was once a builder of motorcycles and also had a TV show of his own. He has been known for his infidelity with hot women, and his goal is to prove that he can still build motorcycles. There have been many great names that have tried to make the comeback from a public display of cheating on their wives with waitresses, models, actresses, hookers, men, but I digress. Jesse James is taking on two of the top and most publicized names in the motorcycle world, OCC and Paul Jr. Designs.
These three companies took place in a build off with a three-week deadline with the winner being determined by fans through the internet and announced live tomorrow night on Discovery. The build show was filled with a bunch of rehearsed trash talking from OCC and Jesse James. Paul Jr. Designs let loose with some taunts and a couple of spot-on predictions. They talked about how Jesse James better build something that can’t be found in a run-of-the-mill biker magazine and that OCC would come up with something crazy, over the top that may or may not make sense.
These predictions came true when OCC built something that wasn’t even technically a motorcycle with flame-throwers attached. The finished product topped out at maybe 15 miles per hour and required the rider to lie flat on their belly to ride. The machine is an electric futuristic mockery of a submission for a motorcycle builder on a nationally televised show with your reputation against your competition is on the line.
The feud between Senior and Junior has been well publicized through their show. After fights, lawsuits, a company split, it has resulted in a termination of communication between father and son. Junior has reacted in a fairly calm matter, started a steadily growing company and has extremely reasonable arguments of why he doesn’t communicate with his thick headed father.
Senior on the other hand has surrounded himself with a team of people who play into all of his insecurities and take part in his amplified immature call out to his son. I find it to be amazing that a senior citizen man can be so immature. His entire focus has become playing immature pranks and doing anything he can to prove he is better than his son. Most fathers would be proud to have a son with a successful business, a hot wife, and a ton of talent. In an interview Paul Sr. said, “If it wasn’t for me, Junior would have built any bikes,” referring that if he hadn’t made the footsteps, Junior wouldn’t have followed them. He is unwilling to admit that his son has surpassed him.
As one of their pranks Senior and the OCC crew drove to an adjacent parking lot to Paul Jr. Designs with the Machine they built and used the flame throwers to light a car that eventually blew up. Senior laughed as they lit a full size card- board cut of Junior on fire. He is clearly going over the line between man and numb-skull.
Jesse James built a bare-bones motorcycle that would look good if it had been submitted in a contest 20 years ago and he was filled with insecurity on camera. James started out with him and one other guy to build the bike and later called in a team when he realized he would never finish in time for the deadline. The finish product had a classic look but was in no shape for an ultimate build-off. Jesse did more shit talking and ranting about how much he hated Hollywood into a camera that would put everything he said on TV. It is hard watch someone criticize others for being on TV building bikes when he is doing the same thing. James stated that he wanted to take part in the build-off to prove to everyone that he is not just an unfaithful husband; he is a supreme bike builder. He spent time going over how he hated the Hollywood life and how neither of his two competitors could hold a candle to his inflated sense of talent. Jesse James confirmed his conceited, immature way of thinking and also proved he has no game in the world of building bikes.
Junior and his team got fired up and talked some shit in the beginning of the show and then brought a World War ll fighter plane into the shop for the inspiration to build their bike. They got to work and didn’t light anything on fire or blow anything up with their competitors face on it. The end result from Paul Jr. Designs proves that he is the premier bike builder in this trio. The nickel-plated, copper finish on this masterpiece makes it look like something from a different generation but not at all futuristic. If I was in Vegas I would put my entire net-worth on the Paul Jr. bike in this contest.
This biker build off show proved a few things to fans of the series and something about Jesse James. It proved that Jesse James doesn’t have his own show, cheats on his wife, and is dis-liked simply because he is an ass-hole. Senior is on the brink of insanity, the success of his son and slipping success at OCC is eating him alive and is entirely to thick-headed to admit his faults and reunite with his son. It also reaffirmed the fact that Paul Jr. made OCC what it grew into and is doing a good job of blowing up his own bike company.
