Attack Choppers: kickstarter

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Tom Rose tells us why kickers are the only option pt. 1

Ok folks, so my computer is still broke down and I have been getting by on my laptop, which is really not very useful for posting great pics of Attack choppers on this blog, when all my photos were on THE OTHER COMPUTER...but,I have been dying to get back to posting, and I have been trying to round up some new photos to post from the laptop while the main CPU goes under the knife.

In the meantime, Tom Rose has been working on an article for your reading pleasure,and further Attack Chopper education and he really came through for us bigtime. Tom wrote a short introduction to a 5 spd kicker conversion review in Iron Horse magazine years ago that I fell in love with from the first reading and I think it is just as relevant today as it was back then.

Tom's latest article is meant to be the next installment of that first article in Iron Horse, so I have posted the original here for your edification, and then the second below.

For those of you who don't know who Tom Rose is... shame on you.... you will still have to wait for the upcoming interview with him that is in the works, but i'm going to let Flynch give you a small introduction to the man and his bike

http://atlasflynched.blogspot.com/2009/09/this-is-where-it-all-begins.html

And let me just say that if it wasn't for Tom and his encouragment and insight... I don't think this blog would be what it is today.
Thanks Tom!

My chopper manifesto

I do not accept the assumption that a rigid framed motorcycle cannot go fast, stop quickly, or handle well. I want my choppers to perform above the social accepted performance standard for rigid framed motorcycles; (that is to say: BAD)
These are the standards I have set before myself to achieve with said choppers:

My choppers must be able to Evade, Pursue, and allow me to survive.
My choppers must be light.
My choppers must be skinny and be able to navigate tight traffic with ease.
My choppers must go fast, accelerate hard, stop well, handle good, and do so without fusing my vertabrae.
My choppers must not scrape hard parts when leaning.
My choppers are not bar hoppers.
My choppers are not non-functioning scuplture.
My choppers must function like a real, useable vehicle.
My choppers must be a valid mode of transportation.
My choppers must not be built for other peoples enjoyment or entertainment.
My choppers must be built for me and my preferences and standards alone.
My choppers must not be fragile.
My choppers must be able to hop curbs, hit potholes, skid, wheelie, do burn outs and crash without breaking.
My choppers must be able to be ridden on all sufaces (Pavement, dirt, gravel, snow, sand, mud)