What lifestyle brand motorcycle customizer and clothing vendor based in Rock Tavern, New York did American chopper compete with?
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American Chopper American Chopper is an American reality television series that aired on Discovery Channel from 2003-2010, produced by Pilgrim Films & Television. The series centers on Paul Teutul, Sr. (frequently called "Senior"), and his son Paul Teutul, Jr. (also known as "Paulie" or simply "Junior"), who manufacture custom chopper-style motorcycles. Orange County Choppers is in Newburgh, New York. The contrasting work and creative styles of the father and son team and their resulting verbal arguments were the series' hallmark until 2008 when an explosive argument led to Paul Jr.'s termination and departure to start a competing chopper company (Paul Jr. Designs).
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Paul Jr. Designs Paul Jr. Designs (PJD) is a lifestyle brand motorcycle customizer and clothing vendor based in Rock Tavern, New York, USA. Paul Teutul Jr. founded the design firm in 2009 after waiting out a one-year non-compete clause with his former company, Orange County Choppers (OCC).
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Ed Krawiec Ed Krawiec (born December 6, 1976 in Englishtown, New Jersey) is an NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series Pro Stock Motorcycle racer. He currently pilots the #88 Screamin' Eagle/Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson for Vance & Hines as a teammate to 3-time Pro Stock Bike champion Andrew Hines. Ed Krawiec, a former AMA Prostar racer, served as a full-time employee of Old Bridge Township Raceway Park from 1999 through 2007, and became dragstrip manager in 2001.
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Klim (clothing) Klim (pronounced "climb") is a company that manufactures motor sports (snowmobile and motorcycle) clothing using the same-name brand. Klim is based in Rigby, Idaho. Klim was purchased by Polaris Industries in 2012 and is now a wholly owned subsidiary.
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RevZilla.com RevZilla.com, also known as RevZilla, is an online motorcycle-gear retailer based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The company sells motorcycle gear, parts and accessories. Nick Auger, Anthony Bucci and Matthew Kull founded RevZilla in 2007.
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Muna Khalif Muna Khalif (Somali: "Muna Khalif Sheekh Abuu" , Arabic: منى خليف‎ ‎ ), popularly known as Muna Kay, is a Somali-American entrepreneur, fashion designer and legislator. She is the founder and CEO of the Muna Kay brand. Khalif also serves as an MP in the Federal Parliament of Somalia.
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Pimpmobile A pimpmobile is a large luxury vehicle, usually a 1960s, '70s or '80s-model Lincoln, Cadillac, Buick or Chrysler vehicle, that has been customized in a garish, extravagant and kitsch or campy style. The style is largely an American phenomenon. Aftermarket features or modifications such as headlight covers, hood ornaments, expensive stereo systems, unusual paint colors, and shag carpet interiors were used by car owners to advertise their wealth and importance. Once considered a pejorative, these customized vehicles were popular with pimps, drug dealers, and gang leaders in the ghettos of large cities of the United States in the late 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, especially New York City, Kansas City, Chicago, Oakland and Los Angeles as a symbol of their wealth and power. By the 1990s and 2000s, pimpmobiles included any large, extravagantly customized vehicle, such as a customized SUV truck.
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Ridley Motorcycle Company Ridley Motorcycle Company was a privately held motorcycle manufacturing company based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, from 1995 to 2010. Ridley introduced the first cruiser with a continuously variable transmission, the Ridley Speedster, in 1999, and positioned itself as "America's Automatic Motorcycle."
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Perfecto motorcycle jacket Perfecto is a brand of "lancer fronted" leather motorcycle jackets designed by Irving Schott and manufactured by American clothing company Schott NYC. The first jacket was introduced in 1928, making it the first such styled leather motorcycle jacket. They were worn by such icons as Marlon Brando in the 1953 seminal movie The Wild One, by punk rock pioneers The Ramones in the 1970s and styled by fashion designers such as Jean Paul Gaultier in the 1980s.
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Dixie Chopper Dixie Chopper is a brand of industrial zero-turning lawn mower manufactured in Fillmore, Indiana. It was founded by Hoosier Art Evans in 1980. In February 2014 Dixie Chopper was purchased by Jacobsen/Textron.
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West Coast Customs West Coast Customs (abbreviated by the company as WCC) is an automobile repair shop focusing on the customization of vehicles. It was started by co-founders Ryan Friedlinghaus and Quinton Dodson in 1994. According to Friedlinghaus, he began the business with a $5000 loan from his grandfather, but other sources claim that he raised the seed money for the business while working at his father's liquor store. Owing to the patronage of celebrities such as Shaquille O'Neal, and Sean Combs, along with appearances in the reality television programs "Pimp My Ride" and "Street Customs", the company has gained a high degree of notoriety and has become a multimillion-dollar business.
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Mark Vanco Mark Vanco (born October 13, 1968) is an American designer and artist in new media. He was an artist of the cyberpunk aesthetic and an early proponent of the transition towards digital lifestyle. He is the creator of Rotor Clothing.
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American Performance Technologies American Performance Technology's Motovox unit sells mini bikes, dirt bikes, go-karts and scooters through traditional big-box retailers such as Sears, Kmart and Costco, as well as through internet retailers such as Amazon.
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Villy Custom Villy Custom is an American lifestyle brand specializing in luxury custom fashion designed cruiser bicycles for adults. Based in Dallas, the company was founded and is privately owned by entrepreneur Fleetwood Hicks, a former menswear fashion designer and health enthusiast, and it was chosen by Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the 100 Most Brilliant Business Ideas of 2010. The company also be aired in season 3 of ABC's show "Shark Tank" according to WFAA
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Bill Hufnagle Bill Hufnagle, who writes and performs as Biker Billy, is an American motorcyclist, cookbook author and television personality.
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Peirspeed Peirspeed is an American importer and distributor of parts for motor scooters. They previously had imported scooters from Taiwan-based TGB and an underbone motorcycle from Sachs Motorcycles. The TGB-sourced scooters were re-branded as "Peirspeed".
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Tailgate Clothing Company Tailgate Clothing Company, Corp. is a private clothing company with design offices in New York City, NY and distribution in Ankeny, IA. The company was established in 1997 by Todd Snyder and Steve King as a multi-tier lifestyle clothing company that appeals to the 18- to 30-year-old male and female consumer and is sold in retailers in the USA and Japan. The company designs and manufactures its products for sale in specialty boutiques like Fred Segal, Scoop, American Rag, and E Street Denim. Their products are also sold in larger retailers like Saks and Barneys.
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Dr. Chopper Dr. Chopper is a 2005 American horror film directed by Lewis Schoenbrun. The plot centers on five young friends who, while heading for vacation at a family cabin, encounter a notorious motorcycle-riding serial killer Dr. Fielding (Ed Brigadier) and his two cannibalistic female assistants, who murder and dismember people in search of body parts which Dr. Chopper uses as replacements for his own in order to extend his life.
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Rock Ventures Rock Ventures LLC, is the holding company for businessman Dan Gilbert's portfolio of companies, investments, and real estate. It is based in Detroit, Michigan and is also engaged in community development in both Detroit and Cleveland, Ohio. Its over 110 affiliated companies include the Cleveland Cavaliers, Greektown Casino Hotel, and Quicken Loans.
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Legends of Harley Drag Racing Museum Legends of Harley Drag Racing Museum is a museum located on the second floor of the Harley-Davidson dealership in Raleigh, North Carolina. The museum was created by motorcycle drag racing champion, designer and Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame inductee Ray Price and features displays of drag racing motorcycles along with memorabilia from multiple riders including Price. It is the only Harley-Davidson drag racing museum in the world.
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Leather subculture The leather subculture denotes practices and styles of dress organized around sexual activities that involve leather garments, such as leather jackets, vests, boots, chaps, harnesses, or other items. Wearing leather garments is one way that participants in this culture self-consciously distinguish themselves from mainstream sexual cultures. Leather culture is most visible in gay communities and most often associated with gay men (enthusiasts are nicknamed "leathermen"), but it is also reflected in various ways in the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and straight worlds. Many people associate leather culture with BDSM (Bondage/Discipline, Dominance/Submission, Sado/Masochism, also called "SM" or "S&M") practices and its many subcultures. But for others, wearing black leather clothing is an erotic fashion that expresses heightened masculinity or the appropriation of sexual power; love of motorcycles, motorcycle clubs and independence; and/or engagement in sexual kink or leather fetishism.
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Outlaw motorcycle club An outlaw motorcycle club is a motorcycle subculture that has its roots in the immediate post-World War II era of American society. It is generally centered on the use of cruiser motorcycles, particularly Harley-Davidsons and choppers, and a set of ideals that celebrate freedom, nonconformity to mainstream culture and loyalty to the biker group.