ShopTalk, Weekly Motorcycle Talk Show Podcast!

“Anything to do with motorcycle, I love it man. I love the family, I love the camaraderie, I love traveling to these bike show, motorcycles is in my blood.” – Josh Owens

“If you meet a girl and want to know if you really like her, get one of those Sena Bluetooths, put her on the back of the bike and go ride for like 3 months.” – Riki Rachtman

“When I really stepped into this industry….. The industry forces you to step up your game, if you don’t you’ll get left behind.” – Josh Allison

A lot of times I do interviews and most of the time they’re assholes, it’s kind of a pleasure to talk to somebody that really understands it and have a great conversation - Paul Sr.

“It started when my uncle bought a bike with a stock fuel injection in it and it was pretty slow.” - Jimmy Light

“We’re going through a period of change really that needed to be documented.” - Gareth Roberts

Fortunately I had really great parents who raised me to always put out that positive vibe and that way I’f get positive back. - Gevin Fax

"I'm gonna sleep when I die, I think that's one of the most beautiful and admirable aspects of the biker mentality is that until I'm under a blanket of dirt I'm gonna keep moving forward and rolling down the highway." - Jesse Hughes

"In a way, we're offering something as a movement, as a culture that the millennial generation really needs. Their whole world is about fake friends and virtual experiences and motorcycling offers real community and real experience." - Anthony Dutch" Van Someren

"I kind of broke the story in print that A couple of black guys from Watts actually built the Easyrider choppers." (from the movie) - Paul d'Orleans

"I've been super fortunate to do work for a lot of really great and iconic builders.... Some of these guys that most people might not get a chance to talk to, and I've been able to work with them." - Buckwild

"I was a Victory dealer forever and I really believed in Victory and I really believed in Polaris and that thing to me was kind of an indictment on the soul of the industry." - Rick Fairless

"It was around take 16 that he said the snake was rattling so bad he knew he was going to get bit." - Chris Callen

"About three years ago I had a pretty good dirt bike crash on a single track trail in Wyoming, I got multiple breaks in my ribs and in my foot. The bike catapulted in the air and landed on my foot just after I high sided." - Peter Egan

"Yeah man, that really was my Aunt Mamie's cathouse I went walking by Decatur Street and I looked in with the purple walls, that was my house man, that was where I grew up." - Charlie Brechtel

“When my dad started to think about putting a chopper show on at the fairgrounds he thought who better to do the artwork than David Mann.” Tory DuVarney

“I was pretty exited man, you know how I am, I don’t do well with the crowd thing….. When it sunk in that I won I was pretty excited. I spent all the money on parts, it only lasted about five minutes but….” Jeff Cochran

“It’s really hard for me to work on my own stuff, it’s a pain in the ass. Trust me, if it was a customers bike it would be done and running, but it’s my bike so I go in with the wrench…. and guess what, sure enough I chip the paint.” Ryan McQuiston

“It puts that grey level in there as to what level of ride ability has to be in there…… I guess it comes down to how the person doing the judging values the ride ability of it.” Jordan Dickenson

“There were times where you couldn’t go fast if you wanted to so it would literally take eight hours to go three hundred miles, if not longer.” Jody Perewitz

“The only thing that I hate (about the FTR) is the exhaust sucks and I hate the tail section but that’s all stuff that the aftermarket will handle.” - Dusty Pine

“When we were asked to do the Discovery Channel the Biker Build Off The First time I turned them down because we were still in a little single car garage with barely room to bring a motorcycle in let alone a camera so I told them no..” - Brian Klock

“This is a company that was born of racing and the only proper way to celebrate its anniversary is a race. We were building this track next to the office to do some testing for our own flat track programs and literally for us to play after work. So we said let’s just combine the two…” - David Zemla, S&S Cycles

“Coming to Faith Forgotten Choppers, I fell back in love with my bike…… Working 60 - 65 hours a week, I don’t even want to deal with it. It’s been a blessing for me, I ride my motorcycle every day.” - Craig Harriman

“When I grew up you had to have a Harley to be in the shows, forget anything else, custom shows were strictly Harley. Diversity rules right now, and that’s a good thing.” - Bob Kay