Rant o' the day - OBX and West Coast Choppers

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Here's my off-topic rant fo the day: I HATE those stupid, pretentious, Bob-damned oval window stickers! You know, the ones with a white oval and a couple inscrutable block letters in it, that only cool people are supposed to be able to understand what they mean, like CH or IRL. I know what they were originally for. They no longer serve that purpose, since the meanings have been diluted by all the stupid idiots who have jumped on the trend wagon. I want to ram every car I see that has one on it.

I hate those things. HATE them! Like I see your stupid tosser's Range Rover with the OBX or NI sticker on the back window and I'm instantly impressed or convinced that you must have a winter home on the Outer Banks or a summer place on Nantucket. Actually all it does is make me think that some sleazy beachside souvenir huckster bilked you out of $3.99 so you could try to impress other pathetic idiot losers who think a mid-week 3-day rental in some shack 5 miles from the beach qualifies you as one of the regular seasonals.

I ****ing hate them. Hate!

I've got another bit of venting that needs to be done here. I'm going to start carrying around one of those 3-foot titanium prybars they sell, and swing it as hard as I can at every West Coast Choppers logo I see. That shold do some spinal injuries to a lot of scrawny teenagers and fat hardass-wannabes, not to mention the back windows of 500,000 pickup trucks and/or SUVs. "Gee, I obviously can't afford a $30,000 custom motorcycle, but maybe if I spend $5 on an Iron Cross sticker and $20 on a t-shirt, people will think I can!"

I'll bet my next paycheck that less than 5% of the people with West Coast Choppers paraphenalia have ever touched a motorcycle in any form. And of that 5% who have actually touched a motorcycle, I'll bet that about 1% of those few have ever even seen a real West Coast bike.

That will do for now.
 
I definatly agree with the west Coast Choppers rant. I see those stickers on lockers, mini-vans, bicycles, skateboards, even stuck to kids coats and hats. I have asked several teenagers if they even knew what W.C.C. was and most had no clue.
 
Yup, oval block-letter logos are ridiculously out of hand. And it seems like everybody has surfer/skater logos, even though most of them don't actually skate...

Dumb logos on hats worn sideways annoy me the most though. Whenever I see that, I just want to light the kid's head on fire.
 
I know exactly how you feel Duke. Basically everyone around here has an "OBX" sticker and it pisses me off everytime I see one. I went to Kings Dominion a few weeks ago and I noticed that they were selling West Coast Chopper t-shirts in the gift shops. At first I thought it was a joke but then I started seeing more and more people wearing them. It's just ridiculous.

OA
 
Well, none of this bothers me in the slightest, but I can see where you are coming from Duke. I see those OBX (Outer Banks) and VT (Vermont) stickers everywhere.
I used to like them cus I thought they made your car look like a race car. :O Heh. :O

Now, I really have no opinion on them.

Don't see to much OCC or WCC out here so I can't really say.

Just wait for my rant on all the worthless ski and snowboard bums.

Coming soon! 👍
 
Originally posted by darklegion_ca
Ok what is OBX.

And it's a trend just like that "All Your Bases Belong To Us" it will die off soon.
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OBX stands for Outer Banks. It's a beach/vacation spot in North Carolina.

OA
 
Originally posted by neon_duke

I hate those things. HATE them! Like I see your stupid tosser's Range Rover with the OBX or NI sticker on the back window and I'm instantly impressed or convinced that you must have a winter home on the Outer Banks or a summer place on Nantucket. Actually all it does is make me think that some sleazy beachside souvenir huckster bilked you out of $3.99 so you could try to impress other pathetic idiot losers who think a mid-week 3-day rental in some shack 5 miles from the beach qualifies you as one of the regular seasonals.
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I've put an OBX oval on every car I've owned since the first car I bought myself in 1994. I love it - no other places have any identifying marks like that which are even remotely similar. It's also interesting, in Las Vegas, to have nobody but area natives know what it means; I see them very rarely even all the way out here.
 
Please, please PM me and tell me that my sarcasm detector is on the blink again. Please.
 
What is tomorrow's rant going to include? I hope it is about those little plastic tips on your shoelaces. Those things piss me off when they crack and break.

:)
 
I have a very small WCC sticker on the rear window of my Blazer, its 3x3 in. I have bigger one on my room door. I also had WCC clothes. And you know why? I like bikes before I ever liked cars. Not to mention I also have other bike stuff like Orange County Choppers, and some stuff from some bike shops around here I've been to (Voodoo Choppers, Detriot Choppers, and Boomers Bikes), so I'm not just about WCC.

But hey theres nothing wrong with sportin what you like, and I'd love to own a chopper but I don't have 30 g's to drop on a bike, I'll just have to settle with my dirt bikes. Oh well they'll work for the time being. So yes I have touched a bike, yes I have drove a bike, I'm not one of those I never touch a bike people. And just cause I ride dirt bikes doesn't mean my life revolves around Fox or Thor. I just like that kinda stuff.

But if you don't like it well I guess your entitled to dislike it all you want.
 
But what's the point? Isn't that like me putting a Porsche sticker on my Caravan, because I really wish it was a Porsche? Isn't that stupid?

I guess I just don't get it.
 
i dunno...i don't see a reason for a car to sport a motorcycle logo...it's just stupid i guess. it's funny to see the wcc logo used so much by people who would flip if they found out that it was originally the German logo during WWI.

i love the wcc bikes/designs, wish i could own one but i don't have that kind of money. besides, i think $50000 USD for me would go towards a sleeper Lan Evo. i don't like the idea of sporting logos all over my car. a nice set of rims and a good paint job are all the outside ever needs.
 
Um the cross is a Maltese Cross from the island of malta, it was used during the crusades. But it was adapted to mean defience in the later years by Germans. Now its a sign of choppers.

But hey I like it, so I guess thats all that matters to me.
 
I have a WCC shirt. I know I can't afford a custom bike like that, but I think that they are cool, and I like the shirt.
 
Originally posted by BlazinXtreme
Um the cross is a Maltese Cross from the island of malta, it was used during the crusades. But it was adapted to mean defience in the later years by Germans. Now its a sign of choppers.
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It's actually the current (slightly adapted, with the cross parts more rounded than on the original) sign of the International Association of Firefighters (IAFF) and you can see it on just about every department's insignia:

Oakville, Ontario:
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Cornelius, Oregon:
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Redwood City, California:
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But I'm on board completely with that it certainly isn't only the German symbol during WWI - that's a pretty narrow-minded view of the cross.
 
Ya I kinda forgot about that, but ya the Maltese cross or Iron cross has been adapted all over.
 
Originally posted by neon_duke
Here's my off-topic rant fo the day: I HATE those stupid, pretentious, Bob-damned oval window stickers! You know, the ones with a white oval and a couple inscrutable block letters in it, that only cool people are supposed to be able to understand what they mean, like CH or IRL. I know what they were originally for. They no longer serve that purpose, since the meanings have been diluted by all the stupid idiots who have jumped on the trend wagon. I want to ram every car I see that has one on it.

I hate those things. HATE them! Like I see your stupid tosser's Range Rover with the OBX or NI sticker on the back window and I'm instantly impressed or convinced that you must have a winter home on the Outer Banks or a summer place on Nantucket. Actually all it does is make me think that some sleazy beachside souvenir huckster bilked you out of $3.99 so you could try to impress other pathetic idiot losers who think a mid-week 3-day rental in some shack 5 miles from the beach qualifies you as one of the regular seasonals.

I ****ing hate them. Hate!

I've got another bit of venting that needs to be done here. I'm going to start carrying around one of those 3-foot titanium prybars they sell, and swing it as hard as I can at every West Coast Choppers logo I see. That shold do some spinal injuries to a lot of scrawny teenagers and fat hardass-wannabes, not to mention the back windows of 500,000 pickup trucks and/or SUVs. "Gee, I obviously can't afford a $30,000 custom motorcycle, but maybe if I spend $5 on an Iron Cross sticker and $20 on a t-shirt, people will think I can!"

I'll bet my next paycheck that less than 5% of the people with West Coast Choppers paraphenalia have ever touched a motorcycle in any form. And of that 5% who have actually touched a motorcycle, I'll bet that about 1% of those few have ever even seen a real West Coast bike.

That will do for now.
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You beat me to it. I agree with you 100%.

Although the Outer Banks look nice, I've run out of sympathy for million-dollar homeowners who still build their monoliths there after a hurricane destroys their property year after year.

(By the way, CH means Switzerland, and IRL means Ireland, or a dolt who thinks they're supporting the Indy Racing League. )
 
Originally posted by Sage
Yup, oval block-letter logos are ridiculously out of hand. And it seems like everybody has surfer/skater logos, even though most of them don't actually skate...

Dumb logos on hats worn sideways annoy me the most though. Whenever I see that, I just want to light the kid's head on fire.
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We have loads of skater/surfer posers at my school. I ask them if they wanna go to the skate park over the weekend and they always have an excuse. Then when I tell them that I can only do a few tricks on a skateboard, they laugh. Yeah, like they can do better...:rolleyes:
 
Originally posted by KosmikFool
We have loads of skater/surfer posers at my school. I ask them if they wanna go to the skate park over the weekend and they always have an excuse. Then when I tell them that I can only do a few tricks on a skateboard, they laugh. Yeah, like they can do better...:rolleyes:
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We have wiggers in our school. Dress up like gangsters and stuff yet they freak out at the name of a fight.
 
Good for you. In 30 years when you can afford the bike to go with them I might be impressed. Might!
 
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Elvis isn't dead! He just ran into a bus face-first, and this is what happened.

Nice sweat band, moron.
 

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