Gangster Choppers "Preacher's Daughter"

This bare metal princess, a 1987 Harley Davidson FXRP won Easyrider Magazine's 2009 1st Place Street Custom in the Nation! Preacher's Daughter is anything but a normal FXR. The first modification was a radical frame rake job, followed up with one off gas tanks, rear fender, exhaust pipes, side panel treatment and much more. Details, details and still more details.

Gangster Choppers - the "Shady Lady" bike

The Shady Lady - the Kandy Blue with Ghost flames paint job never looked so great than on this 1972 Harley Davidson FLH chopper. Built around a 74" Shovelhead. An axed Paughco frame, stretched 1967 Sportster gas tank. Handmade pipes, simple 40 spoke wheels and a tiny150mm tire in a time period when 240's and billet wheels ruled. So much for fads, here at Gangster Choppers we'll stick with what we like. - details, details & more details.

Gangster Choppers - the "Toothache" bike.

The story is the “Toothache” bike started with a customer bringing us a Buell Sport bike & wanting a full blown Gangster style chopper built around the 103 horsepower drive train. We started scratch building the rigid frame & sizing up the 200mm rea...r tire and keeping it perfectly centered an offset drive sprocket with a sealed bearing outer support plate was engineered and machined – one of many one off parts that went into this build, the upsweep pipes, traditional style barrel oil tank, forward foot controls, completely one off hand hammered gas tank and rear fender treatment. Gangster Choppers Springer handlebars were pulled off the shelf and thrown into the mix.

Gangster Choppers - the "Blood Money" bike

Started for a "Build Off" that fell away, "Build Off" contracts signed, "Build Off" sponsorships secured and no "Build Off". It didn't matter anyway like a disease the ideas for this chopper ate away at John Dodson's brain, the bike build had to see completion! That's where the bikes name came from, after the TV cameras left the shop and it became apparent that the TV show was gone too, most of the sponsors backed out. Where would the funding come from? Blood money! Take it, steal it, borrow it, just get it!

Debuting Bert Baker's Function Form primary drive with the Baker King Kong Klutch and the Baker Firestarter, all of this coupled to the world's finest transmission ever: a six speed Torque Box. A big thanks goes out to Mark at HHI who stepped up with the cleanest brake caliper in the world for Blood Moneys one and only rear brake - and if you're only playing with one you better make it the best. Art imitating life, a tank mural of the Gangster Choppers shop truck cruising The Boulevard late one night, caught on film, caught in art.

Build for a client whose only request was the chopper had to be green & sport 80 spoke wheels. Here’s what the "Head Gangster” came up with, a low down dirty little street trick, built around a 1968 HD Shovelhead – the Gang Green bike. The rest were all hand-built parts, frame, gas tank, oil tank, seat, wheels, Springer front fork, exhaust, fender, and details & more details!

Smoke-Out XII - The Long Road Interview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=numabA4BoRQ

Here is John Dodson being interviewed by Keith Ball who is the Owner-Operator of the online magazine http://www.bikernet.com/.

Gangster Choppers rigid frame, Denvers Choppers springer front end, Joe Hunt magneto firing a Kendall Johnson Hot Rod Evo. The finest hand twisted steel in the world, twisted single down tube frame, hand made pipes, Gangster Choppers foot controls, hand rolled fender, hand made 14 gauge steel 2 gallon Coffin gas tank, lathe spun steel oil tank halves, hand twisted steel bitch bar, one off seat featuring 454 Chevy valve springs. Go ahead take a day to find all the tricks on this Beast. Judges all over America spent time with this bike, its won Best in Show, Best Paint, Best Hand Fabricated Pieces, Best Engineered and the list goes on. Michael Lichter photographed Open Door during Daytona Beach Bike Week, it made a full feature in Easyriders Magazine.