Author Archives: V8 Choppers

Summer Update

WOW! That’s pretty much all we can say to describe the past couple of months. It’s been a blur and we have a feeling that the next couple of months will be the same way. We know it has been a little while since we last put out a post so let’s catch up on [...]

Elliot’s 10th Anniversary Build Video

Check out the latest video featuring Elliot’s 10th Anniversary Build! Elliot’s Build | V8 Choppers from Cody Hughes on Vimeo.

Another Great Day

Yesterday seemed like a good day to go out and put a nice number back in the Dakotas memory. I was on a two lane road with nobody in front of me as far as I could see except for a semi truck coming towards me on the opposite side of the road. I cracked [...]

V8 Choppers’ Trikes in ‘American Trike Magazine’

  At a show in Las Vegas we ran across a team of media gurus. These guys were from Source Interlink Media, which owns nearly every popular hot rod, motorcycle, atv, etc… magazine on the market. We had a customer’s chopper on display and convinced them to come over and have a look at it. [...]

My First Chopper (Part 2)

School is such a time killer for young boys who can only think about cars, bikes and girls. It seemed like the best part of school is that it provided a place to get off the farm and hang out with friends and girls!  Being the independent young man I was, I liked riding the [...]

4 Reasons Why You Need A V8 Trike

I know it may have been a while since you went to school, especially if your in the market for a trike. But one more chalkboard lesson won’t hurt. Be sure to get out your pencil and notepad out and take some notes on why you need a V8 Trike from V8 Choppers. 1. Your [...]

My First Chopper (Part 1)

That summer my family and I spent in Oregon stands to be one of the best summers of my childhood. A repeating lesson that seems true to life is; as high as the highs are, the lows surely follow. As it turned out my mother’s health had taken a turn for the worst. Though the [...]

Staring Down the Law

By the time that I had turned 14 I had finally outgrown my little yellow bike and it was time to step up to a larger bike. And it was just my luck that in the great state of Oklahoma you could get your driver’s license at the young age of 14! (As long is [...]

Top 5 Motorcycle Roads in Oklahoma

What comes to mind when you think of Oklahoma? Elevation changes, wide open prairies, rolling hills? If these topics don’t come to mind you might want to re-evaluate how you view Oklahoma as a motorcycle rider and a V8 Motorcycle rider.  Riders will see elevations that vary from the state’s low point in its southeast [...]

Motorcycle Vs. Horse

On the Dirt Roads In 1970 there were no cell phones, no computers, and no online internet. But here in Ottawa County we had something much better. It was a very well laid out and fully operational network of dirt roads that connected people to each other. This network of roads was woven through the [...]