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Today, America's love affair with the hard tail. We'll build a Texas style chopper from scratch and Big Daddy's then it's full tail dune riding when we cross the border for the ultimate fun in the sun.

Hey guys, welcome to T DC and our first show on Choppers. I'm Alan

Avers. Now in the early seventies, Peter Fonda's Captain America Panhead set the standard, but today there's a new breed of machines and builders.

America's fascination with the chopper has never been greater.

The bikes and the guys who build them have become superstars larger than life.

But we found a builder in Texas who believes the trend in choppers is headed back to school, old school.

Welcome to Big Daddy's custom motorcycles in Porter, Texas.

Kevin

Kalis is Big Daddy.

Definitely one handsome man.

This character's love of motorcycles started with a mini bike at age five.

I took that mini bike and my parents were pissed.

I took the front wheel off of it,

put some water pipe, galvanized pipe on there

and I made a chopper

30 years later. He's still building them

right now. We got a lot of big choppers out there. A lot of choppers

and, uh, which are cool,

but you don't see that many old school bikes.

So, what makes a chopper, old school? It's a hard tail.

No socks.

Socks for the sissies. Girder, front end spring or Girder. That's old school.

You figure you've spent, you know, 20 or $30,000 on a bike

and you're not just like everybody else, you're special

and that's what we're doing. We're building custom, one of a kind type bikes

like a drag, sir.

Nice to meet you.

And when he's not building or selling them, big daddy personally greets and shakes hands with 90% of the people that come by,

whether it's to buy a t-shirt or get an oil change.

This is a working man shop.

We'll work on

your old shovel head, flat head

or we'll work on your full blown

custom hot rod.

But it's the custom bikes that are the main attraction.

You can't go to a big dealer and come in the back and they'll show you around. I give tours of this place.

The people are loving it. Especially little kids. You see the little kids, they light up,

you take them back here and you put them on, I'll put them on one of my bikes,

their eyes just get so huge

and it's something the little kids will always remember.

You know, that, that, that little special moment.

And what did it take? Nothing

just to walk them back here to to set them on a bike,

but they can't sit on this one. A rare fully restored 1930 DL Big Daddy bought as a basket case

on my grand opening. I had, uh, someone offer to buy it. He goes, I'll give you $50,000 for it.

I said

it's not for sale.

It's just,

I, I, it's probably not worth $50,000. Now, if someone come in here and offer me $200,000 it's for sale.

Big Daddy's not the only character here. There's the son,

the daughter, the counter chick, the amputee, the professor and last but not least

easy money

together, this gang will take Big Daddy's vision and turn it into another one of a kind old school chopper right here on the show.

Like I said, who's your daddy?

Big Daddy

later today? We'll head back to Big Daddy's for round one of our chopper build

up.

But next, the ultimate play bike experience, dude right

now it's the ultimate play bike experience and the quickest way to destroy a motorcycle.

It's dune riding

when the tracks and trails of southern California get as stale as last week's pizza. The riders in the know, know where to go.

An hour's drive south of the border sits Panama dune and that's where the Bailey boys were ripping it up.

Rocket

came out here to Baja Mexico today, took the day off work and uh thought we'd come out and just

do a little play r,

you know.

Yeah,

we're off for the job.

I'm

having a fun to understand. No surprise. And vigil and his nephew weren't the only ones playing in this Mexican sandbox.

It's like free playground. You can ride like, all day. It's good. In the summertime you

come in the summer

r

for a bit, jump in the ocean,

maybe bring the jet ski. It's like boys of heaven though. It's not like going to the track where you got to pay your 20 bucks and deal with a bunch of people in there.

There's a couple other guys out here in quads and bikes, but there's nobody here. We unload, we're next to the ocean, whatever you want. There's no rules down here so you can do whatever you want.

What the hell is he doing?

Sean's a San Newbie and learned quickly that this is a lot different than the tracks he's used to.

This is definitely a different experience.

So

never quite written anything like this.

Really squirrely. You gotta know what you're doing.

A lot of body English so you don't fall out

front end is kind of loose.

But, uh,

overall it's really fun.

I was gonna rail it.

Ok. That's

so

Stan is a totally different ball game.

Ok.

Yeah.

Mm. Especially this, there's a lot of people that are ridden in the sand, you know, Florida places like that. But it's, uh,

this stuff's deep

and if you let off the gas for a second, you're going down. However, eating sand is a Mexico tradition. You actually got to lay it down a couple times and get some, uh, get some evidence stuck in the jersey and the glove.

You know, you're, you're, you can't brush it off. It sticks to you and be almost the one

next

hour when you get home. It kind of

gives you some memories of the, the fun day that you had riding.

Oh, that could have been ugly.

Could have really been.

The dunes are fun but danger lurks like the curse of Montezuma.

Whoa.

See what sucks about this. We got bar wire this. So, uh,

we got 20 ft, 3040 whatever foot drop to the right.

And uh, we got

lots of broken glass,

lots of deep sand

and a lot that could go wrong.

But you know what?

Here,

the

danger.

No,

it's

just a different, different thing. It's good to be able to get out here and

practice that. But when you get in a situation in a race or a track somewhere where maybe it's deep mud or different type of sand that you do get that. You know, it's something that you've never been able to deal with. And if you take it to this extreme

as far as learning how to ride this, when you get to that and the elements aren't as bad. It, you're

not gonna have any trouble with it.

Mitchell has another piece of advice you can

hear that.

Can you hear the piston?

You definitely want to have a, a beater bike just to be able to bring down here. That's for sure. When you kill that thing and try and get the speed back up, it just, it totally flies the thing. You can, you hear the piston going up and down.

It's just, it's not a good deal. Let's eat lobster. I wanna eat some lobster.

We're done riding.

We are heading into Puerto Nuevo. That is the home of the lobster restaurant.

Sure can't beat that. You're not getting any lobster in the States for 12 bucks. I can tell you that right now,

Sean's advice. Don't forget to lock your sneakers up before you ride. What happened to his shoes? Oh,

they got Jack.

He's all right.

So I'll be going barefoot.

Don't worry, Sean, your uncle isn't going to let you go barefoot. We're gonna get him some cool, uh, some clogs

here. I mean,

uh, now the dunes can be a blast, but just remember to bring an extra air filter and a second pair of shoes.

Next Motocross in Mexico at LA Play

and part one of our big daddy chopper build up

once known for just its beaches and seafood baja is now the Motocross, Mecca of Mexico.

Armando Carrasco's moto original has been a staple on the baja racing scene for almost 15 years. One of the unique things is we always put the track as close as possible to the, to the beach. That's what we call it. LA

Play

Motocross.

It's the beach atmosphere that gives the LA Play

Motocross that laid back fun feeling.

It's a different atmosphere than being in the US. Just have fun and, and let go.

Other than

us so different

out here it's more partying and having fun. Not just those, that party to have fun. Very good, uh, family atmosphere out here, real fun for the kids,

uh, for them to come race and they learn how to race and stuff.

Really fun

with all

the

kids. So

good time.

Good

time.

It's

taking a little bit off the stress of I'm going to race, you know, and it's more like a weekend getaway, bring the family, bring the, bring the wife, bring the kids

and not only racing, you know,

this is a little touch that we try to do

different. We, we're from Southern California. Win or lose.

I'm out here for the enjoyment.

15 classes of a TV. S and motorcycles competed on Mexico's newest track. The real

Del Mar

hit the firm. Find the firm

there. It is.

It's a nice sweeper.

Nice turns. Some, some sweet jumps. Not too dangerous, not too big, not too wild. It's,

it's all on the fun side of the sport. It's awesome. Motocross track outdoor.

Um,

the jumps are, are, are nice.

It's a very fun track

and

we're always looking for a good smooth track safe where a pro can have a good time and, and you know, in a blast and show their capabilities of racing.

Well, the beginner can have a blast trying to race, you know, with a good rider, nice view and

it's really nice down here. Sin was also having a good time, but he is a racer.

Once you put your helmet on, you get a little bit competitive, Of course,

in the late nineties, Finn moved from Germany to San Diego to race in the pro Supercross Series today. He was running in the open class and worked through the pack to battle with Wilson Nichols for the lead.

Kind

of

took it easy on the stars and stuff.

The other guy on a 125 he was in front of me the whole time and then

I could have pushed him out. But I think, ah, it's not fair. It's a fundraise. Yeah. So much for fun as things turned serious on the last lap when he threw the elbow on. Nick.

Bye

bye. Ah, you saw that

that's still considered, uh, into fun

in the fun sector of the sport.

Yeah, this is just like, hey, what's up? You know,

I'm still, I'm also here just riding

that love tab allowed spin to pull away and take the win. This and 50 bucks

pay for lobster, great lobster, stunning scenery and a day of breaks light doesn't get any better. Than you gotta love Mexico.

Next round one in Big Daddy's build up of our lone star chopper.

OK. Now half the fun of a chopper is riding it the other half creating it.

That's what they do at Big Daddy's.

We'd heard the small custom shop in Border Texas built some bad ass old school bikes.

Big Daddy.

So we gave the owner a call and said, show us what you got. Big Daddy said. Bring it on

that. Then

Joe,

come on over here guys.

It

just comes in my head. I start thinking about things.

I kinda get an idea of what I wanna do.

The diamond shaped tank coming to a point,

do a solo seat.

We'll throw a fender up. We'll have to

uh,

modify one of those metal fenders there.

Just throw a sissy bar on there.

I mean old school sixties.

We're gonna build an awesome bike here. This is gonna be an old school bike tank, mount shifter. We're going with the

custom set of handlebars.

That's uh just, it's,

it's, I don't know where it's gonna look. It's gonna look prehistoric

but it's gonna look awesome. It's gonna be an awesome bike.

I'll talk to the guys to get their, their opinion about different things. It's pretty expensive.

My name's Joe

Performance mechanic.

Easy Money is my nickname, I guess

Joe is my lead mechanic. He's in charge of the shop. All the guys in the back.

I can't say enough about him. He's a great guy.

Knows a lot about bikes. He didn't go to school. He learned it the hard way he tear a motor apart. Put it back together.

I think that'd be perfect. Right. Like that.

Dustin. He's a great kid. He's smart. Very smart on the business end. He's fantastic. He helps me out a lot

on the mechanical end in the back. Oh, my Lord.

He

hurts me more than anything.

Come on now, let's see. Let's see what you can do.

All right,

this is only about a

$800 fender system

working with my dad is interesting. Sometimes he can be a major pain, just rag on me, rag on me. Dustin.

No one

dust them.

Ah,

but for the most part it's pretty good. You know,

Dustin hopefully is gonna take over the whole shop in, in a few years. That's what I'm open for.

We're gonna have probably three or four guys working on this flight.

Randy is a character

here. Let me help you out, brother.

Well, thank you very much,

Randy lost his leg, he lost in a motorcycle accident many years ago.

And, uh, you never tell. You can't tell unless he

does something crazy.

Randy is a certified Harley mechanic

now, Allen, he's old school again. If there's something that someone doesn't know, he knows it.

A group of mechanics that we have working in the back,

they,

they just work with each other. They just in sync with each other.

Joe. You are an animal.

What do you guys think about

it?

I

think it's looking good.

Pretty good. Pretty

good.

Wait to see the tank with that on there. It's gonna look awesome. Joe,

is that tank done? A

big old school diamond shaped tank?

Oh yeah, that looks great. Joe.

How

many

is that?

Seven?

That is nice, man. You did a good job, Joe.

Good job Joe.

Put it on. Let's see what it looks like.

Oh, your chills up and down my arms here. Look at that.

That looks good. It's a nice job.

You guys are doing a good job on it. Turn it out. Awesome.

Wait till that tank shifter gets on there

coming up on the side of it

or is that gonna be nice?

Wow, Kevin and his crew do some great custom work, but it's time for some new gear if you want to get povx and video like we use. You can with the R cam from Cyber speeded, the kid has a mini camera and mount a regulator and a microphone. I just plug the harness into a camcorder and you're

in business. Retail is 299. Now, Utopia Optics has a new eyewear line that's both fashion

and function. These trick glasses are designed for extreme sports enthusiasts and sell for about 65 bucks and they also have MX goggles that are guaranteed not to fog up for $45.

And this just may be the future in motorcycle trailers. It's an all new lightweight aluminum bike trailer from DZ. The DZ rider is five by eight and has a 2200 pound gross vehicle weight capacity. A retail is 1400 bucks. Now, how about a little bling electro pod led lights, apply with double stick tape and wire to your battery. Switch them on at night for custom light accents. Great for profiling and their retail for 29 bucks. Well, guys, that's all for today. Here's next week.

It's round two of our Texas chopper project.

It'll be great until then. Ride safe.
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