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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.
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Figure 1: Paul
Teutul.
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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.
figure 2
figure 3
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.
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.
3.0
References
orangecountychoppers. (2014, December 6). Retrieved from
http://orangecountychoppers.com/
wikipedia.
(2014, December 5). Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Teutul,_Sr.
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