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I never saw it but it is cool looking.I think the reason we all talk about the way OCC bikes are almost unridable is at the end of every build they talk about how great the bike handles and rides. Just look at most of them and you know thats a bunch of BS. It;s like saying my hard tail springer rides nice. I love the bike and it is fun to ride but it doesn't handle well when compared to a normal bike.They buy nearly all their fenders and gas tanks unless something has changed recently the same for their frames. They have had a frame or 2 changed but they didn't do it. they also had a couple built but again they didn't do it. Cutting a fender out of a preformed blank isn't making one. I only saw 1 tank made by them and that was made by that Rick guy. Jesse James I have seen hammer many tanks and fenders himself out of a piece of flat sheet metal. Also have seen him bend tubes on a bench and cut and weld them into a frame. This as far as I have ever seen is way beyond OCC capability. Anyone with a little time to lean a water jet machine can cut gingerbread. Even the spider bike Paul Jr. only tack welded the stuff then had someone who knew how to weld do the final welding. I have seen them cut a Pan frame to get exhaust in and wreck the neck because they had no idea how to assemble it. I saw them screw up a tranny then have someone outside OCC put it together. The only reason they are doing anything themselves now is they have hired more guys that can do more things. Paul Jr seems from the show to be a spoiled rich kid and dim bulb. I have seen them take hammers to things you never take a hammer to. Cutting torch inside an engine that was still in the frame. The list of boneheaded blunders is just endless.Not sure how much is for TV and how much is real but it doesn't reflect well on them if it is real. Like I said I have respect for Paul Sr. He built his steel business up from nothing and got OCC going too and worked it up into the money machine it is now. He also kicked a bad drug problem. He has my respect for those things.