ShopTalk

ShopTalk

ShopTalk is a 90 minute, weekly broadcast from journalists of the motorcycle industry that features news, products, tech and guests of current topics and events. Creating Media Since 1997!

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October 12, 2017 58 mins
"At the time all that was happening I was really narrow minded about what I liked and I didn't know if the masses where behind that or not but I knew I was really bias about what I preferred and what I thought a motorcycle should be." - Jeff Cochran
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"I call my stuff reengineered, if I can make it better I can make it better, that's what sets my stuff apart from the other guys in the Indian restoration arena." - Kiwi Mike Tomas
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“When I grew up you had to have a Harley to be in the shows, forget anything else, custom shows were strictly Harley. Diversity rules right now, and that’s a good thing.” - Bob Kay
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“Coming to Faith Forgotten Choppers, I fell back in love with my bike…… Working 60 - 65 hours a week, I don’t even want to deal with it. It’s been a blessing for me, I ride my motorcycle every day.” - Craig Harriman
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“This is a company that was born of racing and the only proper way to celebrate its anniversary is a race. We were building this track next to the office to do some testing for our own flat track programs and literally for us to play after work. So we said let’s just combine the two…” - David Zemla, S&S Cycles
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“When we were asked to do the Discovery Channel the Biker Build Off The First time I turned them down because we were still in a little single car garage with barely room to bring a motorcycle in let alone a camera so I told them no..” - Brian Klock
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“The only thing that I hate (about the FTR) is the exhaust sucks and I hate the tail section but that’s all stuff that the aftermarket will handle.” - Dusty Pine
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October 11, 2018 105 mins
“There were times where you couldn’t go fast if you wanted to so it would literally take eight hours to go three hundred miles, if not longer.” Jody Perewitz
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“It puts that grey level in there as to what level of ride ability has to be in there…… I guess it comes down to how the person doing the judging values the ride ability of it.” Jordan Dickenson
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“It’s really hard for me to work on my own stuff, it’s a pain in the ass. Trust me, if it was a customers bike it would be done and running, but it’s my bike so I go in with the wrench…. and guess what, sure enough I chip the paint.” Ryan McQuiston
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“I was pretty exited man, you know how I am, I don’t do well with the crowd thing….. When it sunk in that I won I was pretty excited. I spent all the money on parts, it only lasted about five minutes but….” Jeff Cochran
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“When my dad started to think about putting a chopper show on at the fairgrounds he thought who better to do the artwork than David Mann.” Tory DuVarney
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"Yeah man, that really was my Aunt Mamie's cathouse I went walking by Decatur Street and I looked in with the purple walls, that was my house man, that was where I grew up." - Charlie Brechtel
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"About three years ago I had a pretty good dirt bike crash on a single track trail in Wyoming, I got multiple breaks in my ribs and in my foot. The bike catapulted in the air and landed on my foot just after I high sided." - Peter Egan
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"It was around take 16 that he said the snake was rattling so bad he knew he was going to get bit." - Chris Callen
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"I was a Victory dealer forever and I really believed in Victory and I really believed in Polaris and that thing to me was kind of an indictment on the soul of the industry." - Rick Fairless
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"I've been super fortunate to do work for a lot of really great and iconic builders.... Some of these guys that most people might not get a chance to talk to, and I've been able to work with them." - Buckwild
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"I kind of broke the story in print that A couple of black guys from Watts actually built the Easyrider choppers." (from the movie) - Paul d'Orleans
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"In a way, we're offering something as a movement, as a culture that the millennial generation really needs. Their whole world is about fake friends and virtual experiences and motorcycling offers real community and real experience." - Anthony Dutch" Van Someren
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"I'm gonna sleep when I die, I think that's one of the most beautiful and admirable aspects of the biker mentality is that until I'm under a blanket of dirt I'm gonna keep moving forward and rolling down the highway." - Jesse Hughes
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