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Figure 1: Paul Teutul.................................................................................................................................... 3

Figure 2 : Air force bike............................................................................................................................. 3

Figure 3: Falcon bike.................................................................................................................................. 3

1.0 Paul Teutul, Sr.

Figure 1: Paul Teutul.

Paul John Teutul is one of the Orange County Choppers founders as show in figure 1. Teutul was born on May 1, 1949 in Yonkers, NewYork and grew up in Pearl River, New York.

Teutul initially started out having Orange County Ironworks, a manufacturing shop now completely possessed and handled by son Daniel. He started developing customized motorbikes for pleasure after being motivated by the many customized motorbikes showing on the roads and in movies. In 1999, he left the Orange County Choppers to his son John Jr. and started developing motorbikes for sale.

Orange County Choppers (OCC) is customized in manufacturing motorbikes based on their own specification that was founded by Paul Teutul, Sr., and John Teutul, Jr. in 1999. The organization was presented on American Chopper, a reality TV show that came out in Sept 2002 on the Discovery Channel, which has provided the organization's a quick rise to popularity.

OCC began as part-time to the family's steel manufacturing company, which was recognized in the 1970's. In the late 90's, Teutul Sr. began manufacturing personalized motorcycles as a development of his steel company, and in 1999 he set up Orange Country Choppers. The company's first bike, "True Red," come out at the 1999 in Daytona Biketoberfest.

OCC is known for the motorbikes presented on American Chopper where motorbikes are designed around a concept or, increasingly, for specific corporate or famous customers. The company has designed custom motorbikes, long time before starting the Discovery Channel show. Additionally, OCC released a special version production line of motorbikes in summer 2007, price starting at $31,000. These motorbikes include elements that are designed initially and developed for motorbikes that are presented on the show.

The US Air force Bike is ten feet long and is made after the F-22 Raptor, complete with Air force symbol wheels, riveted gas container, Raptor consumes and rear view mirrors in the shape of jets. Air force requested it as a community outreach tool as figure 2 illustrates. In addition, to that, they produced Falcon Bike in 2009 for Abu Dhabi police as shows in figure 3.

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2.0 The OCC Team

2.1 Rick Petko: Fabricator

He joined Orange County Choppers as a manufacturer and designer in summer 2003. Eventually, he shifted on from racing and created a house for himself together with John Sr. and the team at Orange County Choppers. Petko really likes speed and was a welcome boost to OCC’s growing team. His real interest for motorbikes is in old university motorbikes. Since operating for OCC John has played a part in some of Orange County Choppers most unforgettable tasks like the POW/MIA bike. The POW/MIA venture wasn’t just his first development at OCC, it also had unique significance for him since his cousin’s name is on the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial Walls in Washington, D.C. and was also located on the back fender of the bike.

2.2 Christian Welter: Fabricator/Mechanic

Welter, an OCC worker since 2002, joined the American Motorcycle Institute, from which he graduated in 2000. He is an auto mechanic in a store and does the most of the wiring and set up performance on all choppers. He also performs the drumming in the OCC band. Christian says his recommended bike build was the band bike, not only since he’s in the team but because he also had a part in designing and developing it. The most complex project was the Siemens Electric Bike – because of the bike’s incredibly high power, he was shocked often. In his spare time Christian likes racing motocross, snowboarding, listing to music.

2.3 Jason Pohl: Senior Designer

He joined Orange County Choppers in early 2004 as Senior Designer. He started his career at Incredible Technological innovation, as an animator of video games, where he proved helpful on a digital pinball model certified by OCC and was accountable for the modeling and developing of all choppers presented in the game. Upon finishing the project, John Sr. was so satisfied with his work, he contacted Pohl to be a part of the team.

Since becoming a member of OCC, Pohl discovered the most complicated part of his job to be taking 2-dimensional conceptual sketches and modeling and re-shaping them into completely efficient 3-dimensional parts. Jason’s initial plan was to be a part of the U.S. Underwater Corps after completing secondary school; however, he was granted the August Holland Scholarship and made the decision to be present at the Il Institution of Art, where he got a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Artistry.

2.4 Jim Quinn: Engineer

Jim Quinn, a citizen of Montgomery, serves as OCC Lead Engineer and Machinist where he is responsible for helping on all motorcycle designs and the machining of all in house bike parts. Before becoming a member of OCC in 2004, Jim worked at the Home of Technological Engineering at Imperial Schrade Corp. for 18 years, where he secured 14 patents for knife design.After Schrade went out of business, John Sr contacted Jim to be a part of the OCC group. Since joining Orange County Choppers, one of his most complicated tasks (and greatest accomplishment) has been switching a 500 pound aluminum piece into a 60 pound rear wheel for a helicopter themed bike. He has a Bachelor’s Level in Technical Technological Engineering from the Florida Institution of Technological.

2.5 John Koerner: Machinist

John Koerner, an OCC member since 2006, studied at Alfred University for engineering, and is now a store machinist. So far, John’s preferred bike build has been the electrical powered bike designed for Siemens and the most complicated project he proved helpful on was the Meteorite Men bike because the build was so complicated.

2.6 Mike Tampone: CNC Programmer

Mike Tampone is Orange County Chopper’s CNC Programmer and Machinist. He joined Business University for CNC development and has always had an interest in techniques. Mike’s preferred bikes thus far have been the Meteorite Men Bike, since he had never seen anything like it in the past , and the Lawless Electric Drag bike, because of the chance that it will break current speed records. Mike’s most complicated tasks are those that have handled 3-D constructing, which can be a very complicated and difficult part of making customized bikes.

2.7 Ralph Estrada: Painter

Ralph Estrada has been an OCC employee since 2003. He is accountable for artwork and some of the automatic bodywork on OCC’s customized bikes. His most preferred bike was the Fire Bike, since it was one of the first bikes he proved helpful on. When he’s not operating, Ralpf prefers to see his family members and prefers to ride his sport bike GSXR-750.

2.8 Phil Nask: Bike Builder

Phil Nask has always had an interest in vehicles and auto body and now is self-proclaimed jack-of-all-trades, accountable for body-work and bike set up here at Orange County Choppers. His preferred project thus far has been the Lawless Electric Drag Bike because he likes drag racing and the prospect for this bike to break one current speed record. Phil’s most unforgettable encounter dealing with the OCC team is when he had the opportunity to get competition against John Sr.