Beating that Dead Horse

[SuperRookie]

Oh man, that chocolate bar thing is priceless And if you're going leave the stall and lick your fingers, make sure you smell it first...you know, "for effect" hahahaha

[Kal]

Sapaul, you are a sick, sick, sick puppy dog.
I like that!

But funny...

[HYPERR]

Aren't those idiots at OCC now a Ducati dealer?

[BuzZz]

Aren't those idiots at OCC now a Ducati dealer?

Really? I can't believe that.
Not a one of them has ever seen the inside of an engine, I doubt they put enough miles on any of their 'bikes' to reach an oil change.....how could they service something like a Ducati? I mean that's a real motorcycle for Christ sake..... they wouldn't know how to get the oil out of it, never mind set the valves on a Desmo.

[Wrider]

Valves??? WTF are these valve things you speak of? lol

[JC Viper]

Wait, these guys source their engines? I never really watched the show so I didn't know they've never serviced any of the engines they use on their bikes.

[BuzZz]

Oh hell yeah, they buy either HD or S&S lumps and drop them right in. Weld up some abortion of an exhaust and yip about how 'powerful' the bike is...... I've never seen them open up an engine, but I haven't seen them all. My x-wife used to make me watch way more of them than I wanted too....

[HYPERR]

Aren't those idiots at OCC now a Ducati dealer?

Really? I can't believe that.
Not a one of them has ever seen the inside of an engine, I doubt they put enough miles on any of their 'bikes' to reach an oil change.....how could they service something like a Ducati? I mean that's a real motorcycle for Christ sake..... they wouldn't know how to get the oil out of it, never mind set the valves on a Desmo.

Yep and not only that, DNA(Ducati North America) gave them total preferential treatment due to their "celebrity" status and gave them bikes like the Streetfighter well before loyal longtime dealers. Customers that had deposits on them were pi$$ed as DNA took care of the clowns at OCC well before them, some of them had been waiting a long time for their bikes, and now will continue to wait longer.

http://hellforleathermagazine.com/2009/ ... comes.html

After the initial uproar in the Ducati community for DNA selling out, the whole thing kind of quieted down and you don't even hear about OCC Ducati anymore. I live only about an hour or so from Orange County and I don't hear anything about them at all. As a matter of fact, until this thread, I had totally forgotten about them. The other day, my friend was looking for a used 1098 and we did a local Ducati dealer search and they didn't even come up. I wonder if they are even still in business.

[HYPERR]

Oh hell yeah, they buy either HD or S&S lumps and drop them right in. Weld up some abortion of an exhaust and yip about how 'powerful' the bike is...... I've never seen them open up an engine, but I haven't seen them all. My x-wife used to make me watch way more of them than I wanted too....

Yep they are basically glorified assemblers. Everything is shipped to them in the crate. S&S motors, wheels, frames, tires, bars, calipers, rotors, gauges, forks, shocks, levers, etc etc etc. They don't build dodo. They don't even know how to paint! They get all their paintwork done by an outside source.

I will give them one thing. They do know how to weld and that they do very nicely.

[BuzZz]

I will give them one thing. They do know how to weld and that they do very nicely.

I doubt they did their own welding either. At least not on their 'production' bikes they sold in dealerships. The bikes I seen in the Edmonton dealership (a Suzuki/Yamaha shop that brought them in as their boutique bikes) were not built by the idiots on the show. They had to have a group of builders who built bikes that could be sold to the public and ridden. The clowns on TV were not those builders.

I seen them unloading some of their theme bikes once, the ones they build on the show. They opened the trailer and half the crap they tacked onto that Fireman Bike had fallen off in the trailer...... I got a close look at that bike and 3 others they had in there as they unloaded them. The bars were crooked (Paul holds the bar in place, closes his eyes and tells Vinny "tack it there"... easy to see why) the wheels were misaligned, fenders crooked on wheels, generally slap-and-dash building was evident all over the bikes. Paint and chrome may distract the general public, but the bikes I got a close look at were built very poorly. Cow c*nts in all the welds of a $80-100 grand bike... c'mon now guys. You can't hide that level of crap with paint.....