Not sure I totally agree with that. I think the reason they were on the verge of bankruptcy is because Jr took his persona & talent & left They weren't anything more than a regional chopper shop 'til TLC did that Jesse James 2 part documentary. Then OCC got their own show right after that, & Pauly promptly built the 911 Firebike.... I think there was only a handful of bikes before it. Without that bike, at that specific time in history.... Not sure they would've taken off the way they did Like I said earlier.... None of the bikes since he left the show have near the detail or creativity IMO. It's mostly Jason Pool cadding everything for the water jet, or Sr regurgitating old ideas that he thinks he can make minimal changes to & voila'.... People will think it's new. Kinda like the 4th generation or whatever it was, Web bike for Jeannette Lee recently. Have you noticed how 1 bike used to take 3-5 episodes, and now even this wheelchair trike they did last night, which is a radical departure from what they typically do.... Only made up half the show? But even then, they really took a lot from that EMT bike with the crash cart sidecar they did a month or 2 ago, so the whole time I kinda felt like I was watching the same bike built again... Only a bit different. And was it just me... WTH wasn't there a damn Superman logo somewhere on the Christopher Reeves bike?!? Seems to me like Sr was really into getting the pre-fab production "customs" line going for them as a steady stream of income, and the detail oriented creativity walked out the door with Pauly, who would sometimes have sooo much detail on the bikes, I would think it was overkill Irregardless..... I don't really watch it for the bikes anymore anyways.... Just the trainwreck. I fast forwarded through all the "build" stuff