I watched 70% of this last night and a lot of it was new to me. It's weird seeing them all get along again in new footage. It also has newer CKY music so it's newly put together. It was nice to see some new Ryan footage.
They existed in a bubble caused by TV interest and the associated injection of capital, but at the end of the day ugly custom motorcycles are a very niche market that, without that artificial interest generated by all the publicity, is unable to sustain that level.
Yeah, Reality TV is a bitch. It's like watching a very shoddy Indian-era train being built piece by piece just for after the show ending we can see it collide head first to another train. Lord knows how much Jazz Jennings or Honey Boo-Boo is suffering.
As an old stoner let me just say that Bam isn't stoner culture. In fact I would say that Bam is the opposite of stoner culture. We don't like hanging around annoying loud faggots, and frankly a lot of skaters are annoying loud faggots who are not welcome in stoner culture.
Powerleveling a bit, but I'm also a stoner, and in the 2000s and 2010s every single teenager was insufferable faggots because everybody was trying to imitate Bam or trying to imitate other skates that imitated Bam. What happened to just smoking weed and skating around? Every time I saw a kid rocking huge-ass Adio shoes and JNCO jeans I could bet he would be a turbo faggot. I was right every time. Too bad it was the style of the time and every single MTV show tried to emulate Bam's """style""" (like being a obnoxious drug-addled faggot is anything to look up to. Apparently it was.) ad-nauseum.
Maybe the real Rocket Power was the friends we made along the way…
No, he looks like he still surfs/skates.
Sometimes I forget how much of a fucking flash-in-the-pan cultural phenomenon American Chopper was, the Teutels and their company went from being basically household names to essentially everyone forgetting that they ever existed within the span of like six years or so? Also I remember reading some posts in bike forums from guys who ended up with some OCC bikes [many of which went pretty cheaply after all of that 'fame' wore off] and they all pretty much unanimously said that none of those bikes were even slightly built or intended to be ridden and they were all unergonomic as fuck, squirrely in turns and would basically cook your crotch while you sat in the saddle. Most of them were also pretty tacky looking in reality. They were getting huge fucking deals from big brands to build completely unusable bikes and one of the strangest fucking hallmarks of that time period was when they appeared in an episode of King of the Hill, that episode is a real time capsule now and honestly unless you were around for the American Chopper phenomenon you would probably watch that episode now and have no fucking idea who they are or why they're there.
That was a good episode, too. But yeah, it's always weird to watch older stuff and see what guest stars and pop culture references stayed relevant and which ones became confusing relics of a bygone era. Like how they had an entire episode about Myspace. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if zoomers watching it thought "Myspace" was just a name they made up because they couldn't say "Facebook."
Whatever the case, you probably shouldn't be a skater and a stoner, because long term drug use and multiple head injuries is a recipe for disaster.
It was for Don Vito...and a lot of other things...it was in amongst the Jackasses, I mean real retard stuff. They even made Ryan Dunn die in a car crash so his mother couldn't get an open casket at the funeral
Just be thankful most of the people who were involved with those shows ended up living normal lives. That kind of lifestyle -- the adrenaline chasing, the drugs, the injures, etc -- really fucks you up. The fact that most of them are sober now is a miracle.
Looking at what happened with Dunn or the Bamster himself is enough to scare most people straight.
Cause it's all fake. The fights and shit are all staged. All of it. The big difference between reality TV and other shit is the budget.
Is this the one that was posted two pages ago? Because it's mostly just a collection of auxiliary footage
Every cky video was like that. There's clips that were used in landspeed/cky2k, that they also put in 3,4,etc. This cut has about the same amount of unreleased footage as the other cky vids.
That just looks like a weird ass fanfic to me., where the hell is this from?
