Job Opening - "Master Bike Assembler"
OCC has an immediate opening for a qualified candidate who would be responsible for the following:
- Final Assembly of Bike- must be able to assemble a bike from the ground up
We are looking for a professional chopper builder. The candidate must have at least 2 years of experience in the chopper industry. Prior work at other chopper shops a plus. Serious inquiries only please. Benefits and 401K available. Chance for advancement.
I just thought, " Wow! They must be building more bikes". Then, I was looking around YouTube and I just searched on OCC for the latest episodes or snippet and there was this one link with Vinnie leaves OCC. What !!!! This is surprising to say the least. I mean, he was the main bike builder for most of the theme bikes. Then I was looking at other links from the search bar and saw " Vinnie and Cody has left OCC" which was a double blow and the other discussion boards says that TLC are showing repeats of other episodes. From the YouTube video, it looked like Vinnie has had this feeling for a while and he's had enough although something must have happened on that day, either a big epiphany or a disagreement with the Teutuls, most prob Senior. Although, I could see that Vinnie and Senior just couldn't look at eachother in the eyes, kudos to them for not ripping eachother apart verbally or physically. Senior saying that "everyone is replacable" is a bit of arrogance on his part cos I don't think he would replace Junior or Mikey but this is the Senior that we all know and love. I guess the most heartbreaking thing was when video went into his truck came out again to look at Mikey and Mikey was going on his scooter cos it was emotional for him too which was sad cos Mikey and Vinnie are close and they joined OCC about the same time.
For American Chopper fans, it will be tough to adjust cos he was there from the first episode of the series ( not sure about the Jet bike episode ) and he should have been in the opening theme songs along with the Teutuls. For him to be so patient and sticking to it for the 5 years he was there was real class act. He was the one of the skills there to make the Teutuls and OCC look good. And Cody, he was there since he was 15 and grew in front of the TV in front of us. Since he was the youngest, he was the one taking the brunt of the jokes and he would have been the one taking over Vinnie's place as the senior fabricator. But just building choppers was not for him cos he does like speed with motorcross and he was doing wheelies with Vinnie. Providing that anyone else doesn't leave like JQ, Poole, Christian and especially Rick, they should at least be able to build some insane bikes although its gonna be hard to see Junior rely on anyone else besides Vinnie since they go way back when they were kids. I would still watch American Chopper since most of the entertainment come from the Teutuls anyway and if they play this angle right, it could improve the ratings. Maybe they can do like an American Idol bike builder competition but replacing Vinnie is impossible.
Vinnie and Cody do have a big loyal fan base and we're all rooting for them on the future with vforcecustoms. From the site, it still in Rock Tavern, so close to OCC so that will be weird and it looks like they will be doing more on high performance machines rather than theme bikes but since Vinnie and Cody are seasoned chopper fabricator, who knows. A TV series maybe? I would watch that but please don't do it like American Hot Rod cos the chemistry is not there and the cars look alright but nothing great. Judging from Vinnie's YouTube's, it looks like they're having fun with taking the Corvette for a spin and wheelieing on their scooter ( although they would have been impressed with the rempits in Malaysia). I guess its best for everyone that the dynamic duo left OCC since now V & C can do whatever they want and with the fan base, they should have no problems getting customers. And for OCC, rather then having 2 disgruntled employees, they have a chance to freshen up the shop and with the World Headquarters coming up they need to address this really quick so as not to lose their fan base and keeping the business growing.
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