Three Two Choppers

Music I'm Jimmy Lee from 3-2 Choppers here in Fort Worth, Texas. And this is Junk Pile here. Junk Pile started because Bill Conway, the owner, he got tired of just sitting around the shop and he decided he wanted to build a bike. And he said, if I just start piecing together some stuff, we'll just get it out of the junk pile and we'll build something. Junk Pile was from a donor bike. Three guys driving around an old 1980 FXB in the back of their truck trying to sell it. And we talked to him from $6,500 down to $2,000. He was a fast talker and he would be $3,500 that's about as low as I can go. And I said, man, I'm probably at $2,000. Man, I don't know if I can go $2,000. $2,000 is kind of low, but If I did $2,000 though, This is just a really nice restoration is what it is. And the idea was to clean it up as much as we can. Now Bill laughs at me because Bill wanted to do this and I kept doing this with it. We kept cutting tabs and man, as long as we're here, why don't we do this? And Bill's And I said, well, it's going to be the Harley, but as long as we're building it, let's just build something special. The oil tank, we actually, that's just a moon oil tank that we've been using those since, I think the first bikes we ever built in 2003. We've had that one laying around the shop. Someone had dented the side of it. We had to fix the dent. We actually cut it in half and then we realized when were putting it back together, we should take some of the length of it out so we could get it inside the frame rails. How are we going to mount that? We're still having the seat mount and that's kind of the process of building bikes, right? How does everything come together? It takes a lot of work to make something look so simple. The execution of a project You look at the oil lines, they all are lined perfect. The brake lines run the frame. Everything's kept in keepers so that you just don't have the lines flopping out. We designed our own dual caliper brake for the back. A lot of guys do that. It's not The hand controls are actually both brakes. On this bike, it's a right foot clutch jockey shift. You can see the jockey shifter and then I think the left one's the rear brake and the right one's the front brake, but they're both on the back. I started making these inserts for the exhaust. You always get pipes that don't come together nice. You've got one's perfectly inch and three-quarter and the other is just a little bit bigger. When you're cleaning the welds off, it's a pain in the ass. I started trying to come up with a way that we could weld them together, but we don't have to clean the welds, basically. I started making these slots inserts. The pipe inserts into that fitting and then you just kind of nice weld around the outside. Now you've got some design in the pipe and it tied it all together. Gary Queen from Other Side Customs in Dallas, he's painted for us for 17 years now. He always knocks it out of the park. I'm real particular. I tell him what I want and he makes it right. This is Jimmy Lee from 3-2 Choppers in Fort Worth and I'm never invited on Shop Talk. Is that what I was supposed to say?