Choppers were around before Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, and Dennis Hopper starred in the 1969 film "Easy Rider," where Fonda rides the now-famous "Captain America" chopper. The movie, however, most ...

In the late 1960s, it seemed like anything could happen. In 1969 alone, man walked on the moon for the first time. Hundreds of thousands marched peacefully in Washington in protest of the Vietnam War.

The Chopper is more American than apple pie. This type of custom motorcycle — characterized by corner-aversive rake-angles, radical geometry and hacked (chopped), elongated and re-welded frames — is ...

January 12, 2005 Mike Seate, author of the book "Choppers: Heavy Metal Art" describes choppers as "1,000 watt ghetto blasters for white people.'' For the last fifty years the art and science of ...