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[blues music plays]

So when we left New York, a lot of people think that

I stopped building bikes.

That's the furthest thing from the truth.

I've probably built more bikes

uh, since I left New York

than I did when I was in New York.

I never stopped building bikes,

and I probably never stopped, period.

[rock music plays]

♪♪

Let's -- that thing went through didn't it?

[tapping]

Good?

All right, man. I'll see you tomorrow.

All right, man. Ride safe.

-Have a good night, Jimbo. -Thanks, you too, Paulie.

[Paul Sr. laughs]

[engine revving up]

[country music plays]

So is the farrier coming today?

[Joannie] Actually, tomorrow. I couldn't today.

-We have a Grey Bull. -What time's Grey Bull?

One o'clock, so I'll finish the animals, and then I guess

I'll swing by and pick up you guys,

and we'll go together.

You're heading out now, or are you going to go --

No, I'm going to go. I've got to get going.

[Joannie] I think this has been a great move,

especially for Paul, because he loves the smaller shop.

You know, he's got this quaint little shop there,

this...

you know, basically a little hobby farm that we can,

you know, take in these animals.

But for Paul, it's like a dream again.

You know, he's got animals back.

He went back to really his old-school roots of

building the way he wanted to. And he loves it.

You know, he leaves for work happy every day.

He comes home happy.

It's really been an incredible transition for him in terms

of just how much more relaxed he is.

So we had an event over at the OCC Roadhouse

to celebrate our veterans.

Bryan Stern from Grey Bull Rescue

was receiving an award that night.

Later on in the evening when the event was over,

Bryan and I met up.

We started talking, and I had mentioned to him about a bike

and how it would help bring awareness to his organization

and what they do.

Yeah, so it should be Bryan

and a bunch of other people up there.

My name is Bryan Stern.

I'm the CEO and founder of Grey Bull Rescue.

We're a donor-funded, veteran-led international

rescue organization.

We rescue Americans and allies, not just Americans,

but that's our priority, from war zones, conflict zones,

kidnappings, hostages, and also natural disasters.

So, well we're about 140 people all-in.

We have people all over the place.

We have people deployed right now.

We work all over the world.

Anything you see on TV that's a crappy place where people

might be in trouble, we're either been there already,

there right now, or on our way right now, like that.

So we are really busy, entirely donor-funded.

We do not charge money.

Kirillo over there, he's the first American victim

of war crimes alive since World War II.

We broke him out of jail from Russia.

The Russians had him, tortured him for 37 days.

Broke him out of captivity, which is the first time that

that ever happened to Russia.

And for fun, we did that 11 more times.

That's us.

We'll show the video, which, because everything

we say sounds kind of not believable, which is why

we record everything, because we have the receipt

for everything that we do.

My team and I have done over 600 missions all over the world.

We rescued over 7,000 people from Hurricane Ian to Maui to

Afghanistan to Ukraine, Russia, Israel, Gaza,

Lebanon, all over the place, Sudan.

We like to say that we work at the speed of need.

When Americans are stuck or in trouble,

someone has to show up.

[Kirillo] I would be dead if it wasn't for Bryan who saved my life.

Knowing that we've saved these people from something like

being caught in a war or conflict, it's very,

very rewarding.

[Bryan] It feels amazing to bring American citizens home,

our countrymen, these are our neighbors.

Grey Bull can't walk out of the parking lot

without money, without donations.

They can't fly overseas and help an American.

They can't pull a hurricane victim out

without gas, chainsaws, vehicles, and donations

pay for all that.

[Bryan] We can have all the things that we need.

But if I can't afford a tank of gas...

it just sounds like a good movie.

It sounds like something that we watch on TV.

And that's the one thing that I never, ever, ever, ever want to

do when somebody needs help is be a spectator.

What you do is just so incredibly, um...

heartwarming and brave and everything else

and emotional to be able to see that.

It's really an honor for us to be here, truthfully.

[Paul Sr.] So we've done TV for 18 years.

I mean, this is really heartfelt here, you know?

I'm psyched, you know what I mean?

Like, this is really cool.

And when we do stuff, too, we have to be into it,

you know what I'm saying? -[Bryan] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We have to feel that this is something that we are honored

to do in a sense, you know?

[rock music plays]

Yeah, well, you know, when we got back to the shop

the guys were there, and I really wanted these guys

to know exactly what Grey Bull does, because I think that,

you know, if you just mention you're doing a build opposed to

explaining, you know, what's involved

in the build and everything. For me, you get more into it.

Once I gave them

kind of the briefing of what these guys do,

you know, we just started building the bike.

At the end of the week, when everybody starts to get

paid here, I'm keeping the money going.

Keeping the money going. Straight to him.

Well, tell him I said [bleep].

[laughs]

[Paul Sr.] Pretty good, though. Emotional, ain't it?

-Yeah. -Yeah, that's great that

people do that.

[Paul Sr.] All right, we got to go to work.

You know, me and Jim have built quite a few bikes,

to be honest with you, since we moved down here in Florida.

But, you know, when you're doing a project like Grey Bull,

you kind of get the band back together

because there's just a lot more involved.

[Jim] SMT. Their wheels...

They come with the tire on.

You don't have to worry about marring the rim all up,

mounting the tire.

[Mikey] Probably a burr on this.

Power tools. You got power tools?

[Jim] We do.

The whole rail over right by the statue.

Right to your left, where Paul is at.

-We got everything. -We got every...

-How you doing? -Good.

Good to see you, man. Good to see you.

Oh, yeah.

-You been working out? -I've been working, period.

The shop lights up when Mikey's here, you know?

It's a different atmosphere.

For me, it's a different feeling

because, you know, I need somebody to play with,

and he's the most fun.

So when he's here,

most of the time, he's hard to find.

But when he is here,

he just lets off a glow, you know?

Let's go over this exhaust.

I want to do, like, a long exhaust, like,

come out of here, come back to about here.

Yeah, it'd be cool if I did like something where it came

down like this and kind of bent over the cone a little bit

and then I can straight pipe it and then kind of follow that.

I was thinking maybe like a teardrop...

slash-cut on the pipe, you know,

give it like an aggressive look.

Probably make it look like it's, you know, going fast,

sitting still, you know? -OK, do it.

Thinking like, a tube drop...

Get a little bit of leverage so we can like finagle it

around before it gets through.

[tapping]

Oh, yeah, some electrolytes here.

[rock music plays]

So it's my first day on this build, and I'm just kind of

looking at this frame.

In my head, I'm just, like, I'm pulling out that drawer

of archive, like, "OK, what pipes do I want to build?"

It's challenging when you're doing that stuff on the fly.

Like, we're hand-making most of

these parts right here in-house.

So what do you think the hardest bike we ever built was?

[Jim] Let me ask you a question and tell you the answer.

Yeah, why don't you just hand me a hint?

[laughs]

-Dead people? -Dead people.

-Oh, the hearse bike. -Oh.

Oh, yeah, so he still uses that.

I know he does, but tell me that wasn't...

Heintzelman? Was that crazy?

I just... He just texted me.

You know what's funny? We had to test that.

We've had, like, three or four different front ends on that.

Remember Johnny Randazzo?

He was the biggest, heaviest one in the shop.

Being back here with some of the guys,

it's really a lot of fun.

We haven't been all together in the same room

in quite some time.

And, you know, I first came here was --

it was kind of story time, you know.

We have a million of them, just reminiscing about some of

the crazy stuff we did, some of the funny stuff we did.

But, you know, at some point, we got to get to work.

[whirring]

How are you going to get out those stitches?

That's the reason why it might hurt a little bit.

[rock music plays]

[Jim] So working with Paul now versus back in New York, ...it's different.

The stress level for everybody is not existence

for the most part.

We just enjoy working together, having fun.

He's teaching me things. I'm not a bike builder by trade.

So he's been showing me what's going on.

We've been building together, just doing really cool stuff

and working with some cool people

down here in Florida that we've met.

A lot more steps.

This piece next is gonna be really a pain in the ass.

-It is. -Worse than all of this.

Because you, my friend, are an imbecile.

[both laugh]

People always ask, what do you like

about working with Paul?

Is he really like as you see you on TV?

-I am "No, he is" -- -How great was Jackie Gleason?

So I think what we need to do is make a plate in here.

OK.

This way, come around, and fill in this --

fill in this area.

Right.

And then Anthony made an oil tank.

We'll see how the oil tank and the battery box to fill

this area, because it's stretched so far.

-It looks real empty in there. -Right.

They're working on the front end.

So I think we're doing really good.

Again, Anthony's building the gas tank.

That's kind of like, I think that's an area that none of us

are qualified in other than Anthony, so --

But the fender's not done.

We got a lot of fabrication to do on that fender.

It's a real long bike. The frame's been stretched.

So yeah, I'm getting back to work.

[rock music plays]

My name's Anthony Keeling.

I own a company called Tinworks Inc.

I've been helping Paul for about two or three years now.

Off and on, I build frames for him and stuff.

And today, I'm helping him try to get this bike done.

Helping out -- kind of building the gas tank,

mounting the oil tank, battery box.

It's going to be a pretty nice build when it's done.

♪ ♪

Why do you all make that look

when I walk in like there's something wrong?

Because we're happy to see you.

-You're never happy to -- -All morning,

everybody's, where's Joan?

-Where's Joan? -Oh, yeah, yeah.

"Where's Joan? We hope she got hit by a truck."

Paul's like, "I don't know, but I already miss her."

[Joannie] Really? Yeah.

[Jim] So Joan, Paul's wife, most people don't know

she's actually the CEO of Orange County Choppers.

So she keeps us running smooth and keeps us on point.

I mean, a lot of times she'll stop by the shop to see

what Paul and I are up to or not up to.

She makes sure we're on point with delivering the bikes

on time and what the client is looking for.

What do you think, Mike? We could drive it?

Yeah, we got a lot of people working on it all at

once, so... -Like the old days, you know?

Yeah. Well, that's what I feel like.

I just walk in, I'm like, "Wait, wait, wait."

I'm in a time warp, you know?

♪♪

It's awesome. That's a great tank.

-[Jim] Right? -You know what?

I was just going to say, it actually fits...

-Perfect. -...the whole thing perfectly.

Yeah, I like it a lot. You know me, I'd be giving my real opinion

if I didn't like it.

It's almost the same width when you're looking down this way.

The tank's a little wider, but it's so close.

Really? Great job.

Yeah, no, it really does. It's a great job.

Speaking of custom, how's my custom bike coming along, Paul?

You don't have some place to be?

You got to feed the chickens, maybe, or the cows.

We don't have chickens. Just for the record.

Well, get them.

[rock music plays]

-[Paul Sr.] Where's Jimbo? -[Jim] Right here.

-Don't sneak up on me. -I'm sorry.

-Who -- what -- Mikey, I'm -- -You and Mikey at the rear.

Oh, great, me and you, pal.

-All right. -All right?

[Mikey nods]

Set first.

Now, what's this.

Let me do this.

Helping you get done.

We're having like a slow start this morning.

I think it's mainly because of Michael.

He's late this morning. Three days in a row.

One more time we'll have to can him.

Stop paying attention to the camera.

You better get on this [bleep] stick.

[Mikey] Right.

All right?

[Mikey] Good pep talk. [bleep].

-[Paul Sr.] Oh [bleep]. -You owned it.

-[metal clanks] -[Paul Sr.] Oh, Mikey.

Paul had some surgery done

to his hand. It had some stitches.

So the doctor is supposed to be stopping by, which is good,

because to get Paul to go to the doctor and to get us to do

anything when we're done working is tough.

It's hot. It's hot.

Well, I drove an hour to get here.

-Did you really? -Yeah.

I must love you a lot.

I'm like a coward when it comes to this [bleep].

No, you're not.

Like, when they cut it and they stitch it,

it didn't bother me at all.

-But now, -That looks great.

Yeah, but look at how this has grown over that.

How are you going to get at those stitches?

That's the reason why it might hurt a little bit.

You sure you want to do it here?

-Yeah, I don't care. -It's your hand, not mine.

-Yeah, you good? -Yeah, it's all right.

-Mike, you're working here? -Yeah, yeah.

How did this happen?

You don't want to let anyone know.

-No, he won't talk about it. -I don't want to talk about it.

I think my father's getting to the age where, like,

he's causing himself embarrassing accidents

but doesn't want to tell anybody.

So he came in one day with a real gash in his hand,

and he kind of didn't want to tell anybody

how it happened, you know?

But it's sitting there like Frankenstein's,

you know, stitches in his hand, so it's kind of hard not to

give him a hard time about what's going on.

Kind of like the giant dent in the front of

his truck, you know? He blasted something with that.

I don't think he wants to tell anyone.

They might take his license away, you know?

-I got a brown paper bag -- -Give it a go.

You gotta give it the old college try.

And every time I pull it, he's angry.

-See? -Yeah, boom.

[Dr. Jibawi] He said it.

What do you do if we go to your place over there?

What are you gonna do?

[Dr. Jibawi] I'll just, I'll probably open it up a little bit.

-Open it up? -[Dr. Jibawi] Yeah, I might have to look at this.

Are you crazy?

[Dr. Jibawi] No, we'll just let, we'll let it.

All right, hold on.

We're just gonna, let's clean it up here.

-I made a WD. -[Dr. Jibawi] WD.

-You got tons of it. -[Dr. Jibawi] I usually --

we don't have a sponge, right? -No.

[Dr. Jibawi] I'll bill you later.

-All right let me know if you need me.

-All right I'll see you later. -I love you.

-Thank you, I appreciate it. -Love you too, man.

He's my boy.

I gotta make house calls, I gotta make house calls.

It is what it is. That's what you do.

-You take care of your friends.

-Ow! -Yeah, it's hot.

[groans]

[rock music plays]

[Paul Sr.] As far as the bars on this bike,

Um...

Drew made these bars, actually makes quite a few

different sets of handlebars, and this one set of bars was

very unique, and I really liked it.

So I had asked him to fabricate a set of those for Grey Bull.

Argh.

I'm not digging it, man, because these are going up

in the air.

I wanted them to come down this way, if anything.

And, you know, we got it on, put them on,

and they just didn't cut it.

First of all, the stretching,

the rake and everything, the position of the handlebars

just and whatnot, it didn't work.

So we had to go to Option B, which was, you know,

set a kind of pullback drag bars.

And even then we had to make like eight-inch spacers to

bring them up over the tank.

When you're building custom bikes, every frame that we do

it's got, like, a different rake on it.

Normally, when I build my Zeus bars, it's for, like,

a stock rake, so I just went ahead and built them for that,

thinking I could just, you know, change the angles.

And they're cool, like, on a stock rake, but with that

40-degree angle, it just wasn't looking right.

You know what I'm saying?

It was just, like, real sharp edges, and, like, everything

on the bike was kind of, like, smooth,

so it wasn't really flowing.

What'd you cut yourself yesterday?

[whirring]

[grinding]

-All right, you ready, brother? -[Mikey] Yes, sir, yes, sir.

[Paul Sr.] Not you. Nope, nope.

You, my friend.

[Paul Sr. chuckles]

It's the little things that make you laugh,

you know what I mean? How's that look, centered?

Just tack that corner in there.

If I get a shock, you're getting punched, man.

-[Drew mutters] -[Paul Sr. chuckles]

[Paul Sr. groans] Oh [bleep].

All right, just get a little more tack.

Not on that side, just on that inside.

-OK. -You know what I mean, bro?

Roll it.

I think it's got to go over that way a little bit,

but I think it's centered, right?

Downhill and over the hill.

Of course, he doesn't put his glasses on right now.

No.

All right, you know what? He's the new guy.

You got to ride him.

Yeah, I got to, you know, put my time in.

[Paul Sr.] He's got to get his initiation, man.

-I'm easy on him. -I guess so.

[indistinct chatter]

Right. What a nice machine.

I sold [bleep] I never should have sold.

Yeah, it's way too tight.

[Paul Sr.] Let me see something.

-And it's got to come. -[Paul Sr. groans]

[Mikey] Yeah, it's hot.

[groans]

It's already over. It's already over.

All right, let's see.

Back to the drawing board.

[smooth piano music plays]

Bring it over here, Mike.

[smooth piano music continues to play]

[banging]

[smooth piano music continues to play]

[Paul Sr.] You always prepare for these things,

but it never, ever works out.

[rock music plays]

Me and Mikey have kind of a chemistry, you know,

so no matter what we do together, we have fun.

So the sissy bar entailed quite a bit of work.

I'm down.

I'm down.

You're going to burn someone's eyebrows off.

You know what happens.

We've made a bunch of sissy bars together and usually

we get halfway and have to start from the beginning.

This is one of the rare times we didn't have to,

so that was kind of an accomplishment, right?

No, it was good, it was good. I enjoyed.

-Oh, great. -I don't want to tell him at all.

Thanks, Mike, appreciate you, bro.

Yep, you be you too.

-I'll see you, um... -In hell.

[laughter]

So now that the paint and powder coat

for the Grey Bull bike is out, it's time for a little R&R,

a little us time. So Paul's got a friend

who owns an airboat place with crocodiles and other stuff,

so it should be pretty interesting.

So we're going to go out, check that out,

and have some fun.

My name's David Schlum. I'm one of the owners out here

at Wild Bill's Airboat Tours.

Paul Sr., he's been coming out here for a couple years,

hanging out with me.

I got one of his bikes in my house.

He's a really stand-up guy.

[Paul Sr.] This is a day out for us.

We usually, almost on every show we do,

we take a day where we have a good time.

So we decided to come over here with Dave.

Let's do this.

♪ ♪

[engine revving up]

[Joannie] You know what? Coming here today is so funny

because it's really peaceful and it's just a break from,

you know, everyday life between the shop,

you know, the business side, working out the farm,

which I love, you know, all of a sudden

you come out here and you forget about everything.

It's just a great break.

I have to admit it, I was a little bit scared of Paul

driving the boat because we've all seen his truck, you know?

And he has no fear whatsoever. Like, he doesn't...

It's amazing.

You would think as you get older, you would get

a little bit, you know, more fearful of things.

I think he's actually gotten worse when it comes to that.

Zero fear. Just hit it.

We all came out of our seats, but it was so much fun.

This place was always an adventure.

We brought Hayley in.

I've been watching her on her Instagram

for quite some time now. She's a pretty amazing person.

She tells you like it is. She's a little raw.

What she does, what I admire about her, is she'll get

her front end that's bent and twisted and rusted,

and she'll get her old rim or old whatever it may be,

and she'll fix it.

When the girl comes in, I'm going to have her

work with you, Christian.

She's like really good with springers, you know?

-You ever see her on Instagram? -He showed me --

he showed me the... -[Paul Sr.] She a boss.

[Christian] I came in, and they put me to work with

Hayley, and I wasn't very familiar with her

working together, and she's, you know, she's got

the trucker mouth going. Cool girl.

[bleep].

-This goes like lap [bleep]. -[bleep], oh my God.

-[Paul Sr.] You're amazing. -[Hayley laughs]

[Hayley] I would have thought for sure they'd be, like...

Well, listen, I might not be right.

[Hayley] No, that's...

How many choppers do you think you've built?

-A lot. -[Christian] Oh, crap.

We did over a thousand just on the show.

[Christian] Yeah.

It's always the most dicey thing,

is putting the springs on.

Hayley's fitting right in, like one of the team.

She's really good.

She's done front ends before in springers,

so we knew that would be a good place to have her start.

Yeah, she's knocking it out.

[Christian] Yeah, so this morning we came in.

Hayley and I were working on getting the front brake

totally situated. There's a lot of spacing.

There's a lot of math involved, actually.

So we're just about done with that.

So, yeah, we're off to a good start,

a little better than yesterday I would say.

[Hayley] I found bikes is something, like, instinctively

I couldn't put my finger on it. I just had to be on a bike.

I knew that it was something I had to do, but all the bikes,

like all the stock bikes, for whatever reason,

that was like some intuition or something that was going on

where I didn't like any of the stock bikes either.

So he notices what I'm doing, which a lot of people

they don't notice that kind of stuff.

They just want to see paint and chrome, and then that's

what constitutes a build, but obviously, there's no

chroming really around me, and so we got to make do with

what we got, and we're making our own parts, and he gets it,

he sees that. -Hurry up, go fast.

Dude, look at that spring. -I don't want to. Oh!

So today, Jim and I are just working on some odds and ends.

I got some wiring I'm doing, just making sure everything's,

you know, tight, locked, ready to go.

All right, so I think we got most of it.

Yeah.

Jim had received the paint yesterday, and he noticed

there was a little difference in the shade of the gray.

So we called Paul in to see what he thought of it.

When I came in, the tanks were in here, and the color gray

that was on the gas tanks, opposed to the bars

and the other stuff that we used for accent

on the front end and the primary,

was totally different color.

[Jim] Well, the tins and stuff came in yesterday.

-The tins? -They look They look amazing,

but I think we have an issue.

So, let me grab one.

-I can see it already. -[Jim] Yep, that's the issue.

Ken did another amazing job on the paint.

It's amazing.

Let me grab you a piece so we can hold it next to it

so you can see what the difference is.

-That guy is just... -[Jim] Ah, insane.

-He's like a pr--... -Professional?

[Paul Sr.] Well, yeah, he's like a professional.

-I don't know how we got him. -Yeah, you're right.

What's he doing?

A piece you can hold next to it, you can definitely

see the difference. -[Paul Sr.] Oh, my God.

-[Christian] It's way different. -[Jim] Yeah, it is.

-It's too much to leave. -[Christian] It's a nice gray,

but it's just not the same gray.

But there's so much of it on the bike,

you're going to notice it.

Um...

There was, you know, a few things we had to take off.

The primary handlebars, risers, part of the springer front end,

um, battery box, all to get repowder coated

with this new powder coater that we're using.

The new powder coater, why don't you give them a call?

Yeah, they're right down the street.

Hopefully they're near there and we can do something with it.

[Paul Sr.] I mean, it doesn't seem like we got to take that.

That's going to be the biggest pain in the ass.

-Yeah. -[Christian] Front end.

Well, just the spring side and the front end.

Bars, risers, primary.

...battery box.

[operator] Thank you for calling CQ Coatings how can I help you?

Hey, it's Jim from OCC. How are you doing?

-Good, how are you? -Good, thanks.

I got you on speakerphone with Paul and Christian.

-Hi. -Heyo.

So we just got some tins in for a bike we're building,

and the powder coat we had done previously to the bike

is not matching at all. It's just way too different.

So I wanted to see if you guys could come down

with your sample pack, and we can see if we can match it up

and get this fixed. -[operator] Yeah, absolutely.

We can head that way right now.

Yeah, give you a heads up so you can think about it

on your way over.

It's going to have to be a quick turn and burn

like tomorrow. -Yeah, that's not a problem.

Yeah, cool. Yeah, head on over.

-You know where we're at, right? -That was easy.

You should have said today.

Once they get here, we take this stuff off.

We could start putting this stuff on.

Yeah, we could start taking this stuff off now

when they get here.

So what do you want to hit first?

You want to take all the controls and stuff off?

We'll just have to do it little-by-little, because these

bolts don't come all the way out, am I correct?

Which ones? These?

-These do. -They do?

Yeah. All right.

Yeah, barely.

So how many times did you put the bike together?

-Hey, what's going on? -Hey, how are you?

-Good, you? -Good.

-Good to see you guys. -Thanks for coming down.

So, like any custom build with a car, a bike,

a house, or whatever it may be, there's gonna be issues.

The powder coat and the paint,

the gray versions just didn't match.

There was too much of an inconsistency to let it go.

So, we had to get another powder coater to come in

and fix it and do it really quick.

And fortunately, CQ Coatings did that.

The real way to do it is do the powder coat

and have the paint not match the powder coat,

but we didn't do it that way. -That's all right.

So that'll work. That color will work, yeah.

Yeah, I can get this today from our supplier.

I'll pick it up, and we can have the parts done by tonight.

Yeah, that'll work, I'll give you a call if something changes.

-That's great, that's great. -Awesome --

[Jim] Now, we appreciate you guys running

and getting them done so quick. -Awesome, thanks.

Yeah, let's get the part over with.

It's got to go --

yeah, we got plenty of room, right?

-It's got to go like this. -Yeah.

Yeah. Here, just put this in.

Yeah.

If I hold that.

The thing, Paul, remember, it would slide off of there,

so you got to have it like dead on.

So, me and Christian were taking the springer apart,

not for the first time.

And we're using this tool that we used to use, man.

We used it for years and years back in the old shop even.

And I was compressing the spring.

[Paul Sr.] That pulls the tension on the springs so that

you could release it and take the springs off.

And I pulled the whole stud out where the stud should have

stayed, just enough so it came off.

So, there was nothing holding that spring in, and he still

had it compressed, and I noticed

that the spring was bowing.

Christian started moving away.

He said, "You need to hurry up."

And when I looked at the spring

on the triple, between the triple trees,

was almost bent like a U.

[Christian] And I mean, there was a lot, a lot of pressure

underneath that spring. So, I tried to get them to go

fast, fast, fast, you know, loosen it, get it off.

[Paul Sr.] And as soon as he said that, it let go.

[Christian] And before I could even get that totally out of my mouth,

the thing went whipping across.

Dude, look at that spring.

-I don't want... -Oh, my...

Ow.

[Jim] Well, that'll work. You all right?

-[Christian] Holy crap. -[Jim] Right there was good.

That thing hit me right in the wrist, bro.

-You all right? -Go fast.

Uh, it hit me in the hand.

You know, I could still feel it.

I got a red mark there, but I guess it could have been worse.

[Christian] I mean, that thing went whipping.

As a matter of fact, we didn't see where

one piece went.

[Paul Sr.] Jim found it on the floor afterwards.

That was the part that I didn't see.

[Christian] We looked up at the ceiling,

and there was a hole in the ceiling.

So luckily, I mean, it would have knocked teeth out.

I could have been at the dentist getting new teeth

because the pressure that that had to be able to almost stick

into the ceiling. -It's funny, I guess.

[Paul Sr.] Pretty much lucked out there.

-Hey, what's going on? -[indistinct]

Uh oh.

[Paul Sr.] I'll tell you, you did a nice job.

Yeah, because usually there's a lot of orange peel in here.

-Yeah, it's a really nice job. -Thanks.

[Paul Sr.] Now that we got the powder coat back, you know,

we need to get it back together.

And if something else unexpectedly comes up,

which usually does, we could be in trouble.

-Bye, guys. -[Jim] Thanks.

-[Paul Sr.] Thank you. -[Jim] Thank the team for us.

[Mikey] Yeah, you know, sometimes putting a motorcycle

together is pretty darn tedious.

A lot of nuts and bolts and knickknacks that you've got

to put together, and it takes time, and it's not exactly

a big hurdle, but, you know,

it's something that needs to be done.

And we're having a lot of fun here doing it.

So you can get this side, if this side's straight,

get it lined up on this side.

-That ain't bad. -Thanks.

[Mikey] You're probably old.

That looks pretty good, actually.

Yeah, we were talking about that the other day, remember?

[Paul Sr.] Yeah, we're pretty much getting caught up.

It's kind of difficult when...

everybody kind of sort of kind of works in the same area

you're kind of banging to. But we've been coming along.

We got the primary pretty much done.

Got the covers on there. Al got the light all hooked up.

So we got a little bit more electric work to do.

Probably another couple, at least a couple hours of everything.

Got to get the oil tank on, run the oil lines

and the rest of that stuff.

But I think that we're, I think we're on schedule.

I don't like to say that because every time I say that,

something goes wrong. But I think we're OK.

I mean, everybody's, believe it or not,

even though we're on top of each other,

everybody's getting their part done.

Yeah.

It's cool how, like, every time you put a piece on,

like, the headlight changes, you know, the seat changes.

...right there, not see as well.

They're definitely going to like this.

-[indistinct chatter] -You know we're gonna do it.

Sounds good.

[suspenseful music plays]

[indistinct chatter]

-You did good, Mike. -Thanks.

Are we just going to frigging send it, or what?

We're going to send it, bro.

Send...the only way, isn't it?

I think I'm afraid.

[engine revving up]

[engine revving up]

-All right. -Oh yeah it's all right.

-Yeah, -[Paul Sr.] So we got the bike

off the lift. Sounded great.

Those rims look great, man.

Yeah, wow, the rims really, the SMT wheels look good, boy.

It looked good. Christian took it

down the road and back just to see how the clutch

and everything, which was good.

The issue, which actually we seen as soon as we got it off

the lift, the steering needs to be shortened

because it's hitting the gas tank.

So what we're gonna have to do is...

it's an old-school chopper thing because you never really

used to put stops on there.

You'd either drill and tap it or put a chain

on there or whatnot, so...

Once we figure out where that's got to go and drill it,

hopefully, take it out one more time.

I think I'm gonna take it out one more time

now that Christian did it. [chuckles]

And, um, it should be good for the unveiling tomorrow night.

Hopefully.

As long as there's [bleep] nothing else going on.

[Jim] Pulled it in front of Grey Bull

and Bryan and their team as well as our team.

And, um, it was amazing.

We've built a lot of bikes for different organizations over

the years, but this Grey Bull bike is really something near

and dear and something really special to all of us, I think.

-Mike! -Hey, you!

[Paul Sr.] Where are you?

Mike! Hey!

-What are you doing back there? -I was just--inventory.

I was doing some inventory.

We really didn't have much time to spare at all.

It was, you know, the day of the event.

We're wrapping this bike up, we're doing

the steering chains, making sure everything's good

for the unveil, everything's running all right.

And we really, you know, we're used to it.

You know, from back in the day, we were always under some sort

of crunch or deadline.

You know, I'm used to it personally.

I think Mikey is as well.

And so we just worked and you just keep going

until you get it done, and we did.

-You got one shot to do this. -[Paul Sr.] Why?

Because where you drill and tap this hole

on both sides. -Yeah.

But you could adjust the chain with the link.

[Christian] Yeah, but if you go...

-If you go too long. -[Christian] That's a long link.

Then you could go too long, then it's null and void.

Well, then you go down and hold it to where you want

it and then punch it out. [Christian] Right.

And if you do it, [bleep] up, then you go the other way,

but then you're going to cut this turn.

Yeah, right.

-I can't go left. -I can't turn.

[laughter]

Like loose -- no, just loosen that a little bit.

Yeah, you can do that too.

Flatten it more with the spacers.

Use the spacers and the chain. You know what I'm saying? And a vice.

-Where's Mike? -Hey.

-Three, four, five, six. -Where you've been?

-Right here. -Right there.

[Mikey] Well, you know, it's really nice and mellow

working with my dad now, you know.

Instead of yelling at me, he just kind of breaks my balls

a little bit.

And it's really nice because he's very old now,

you know?

So I think he needs me in some way, shape, or form.

I don't know how I'm worthless as [bleep]

on a bull with the motorcycle

and the motorcycles that we're fabricating, you know?

But I just really enjoy being around him now.

Will you heat it up and send it in?

-Give that to Christian. -Sure.

[indistinct chatter]

[rock music plays]

[engine revving up]

Oh, Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

[rock music plays]

[engine revving up]

So the bike, like most of the times, time was of

the essence, and we were running a little behind,

but we were going to get it done.

So we were able to finish it, which is good, because it

allows us to go out and see some of the vendors here

at the St. Pete Bike Fest.

We had some friends here like Grey Bull,

Jay from Operation Healing Heroes,

and Talon from CQ, who's our new powder coater.

So it was good to be able to go out, spend some time with them,

and just relax a little bit after getting the bike done.

You know, the unveils are always great,

but it's even better when we get to do them at the OCC Roadhouse.

The reveal was so nerve-wracking, to be honest

with you, because even though you think that this is

an excellent bike and it fits perfectly, you still never

really know what the client has in their mind.

So the Grey Bull unveil went well.

Joan and I got out there, got the crowd ready.

We brought Bryan up. Bryan talked about Grey Bull.

Joan talked about Grey Bull.

And then Bryan showed everybody a video.

It was the first time the video has been made public.

The Grey Bull team hadn't seen it.

They fired it up.

Everybody turned around from Grey Bull.

The crowd was quiet.

You could hear a pin drop because everybody was

paying attention to that video.

We rolled right into Ukraine, and that was a humanitarian

crisis unto itself.

We've done 68 American babies from the war in Ukraine.

[woman] Oh, my baby. Thank you, everyone.

Babies in a war zone on life-support and incubators

gives you gray hair.

[woman #2] Several Americans have come back home

after being held hostage by Russian forces in Ukraine.

[Kirillo] I would be dead if it wasn't for Bryan.

He saved my life.

Without Bryan, I would still be there.

[Bryan] The United States and U.S. citizens need Grey Bull

very simply because more Americans

are held at risk today than ever before,

and no one's coming.

I like to be able to say we're coming.

My greatest fears have now come true,

which is having to say no.

We have way more people asking us for help than we can afford,

and that's because we're donor-funded.

If we do not have money, we cannot do what we do.

This operation is logistically, very expensive.

If there's no donations, there's no money to execute

evacuations or rescues.

[Bryan] We can have all the things that we need,

but if I can't afford a tank of gas

it just sounds like a good movie.

And that's the one thing that I never, ever, ever, ever

want to do when somebody needs help, is be a spectator.

So the video gets done.

We're pumping everybody up. You hear the bike coming.

You hear Paul revving it up, coming around the corner.

He pulls it in. It's a long bike.

It's over 11 feet long.

So riding that in, Paul killed it, as always.

Pulled it in front of Grey Bull and Bryan and their team,

as well as our team, and it was amazing.

-[engine revving up] -[cheering]

[Joannie] Audience was so receptive, so I was really glad to see that.

But as soon as the bike pulled out and you saw their faces,

we knew we nailed it.

Because they could not have been happier with the bike.

So it really, in the end, after all the anxiety

turned out to be awesome.

So after the unveil and everybody was checking out

the bike, we invited all of Grey Bull back over to the shop

to talk to us and see where the bike was made.

I think it's beautiful. I think it's beautiful.

It definitely balances...

[cheering]

[Paul Sr.] You know, the thing of it is,

every bike that we build tells a story.

And I think that people that we've done bikes

for 20 years ago, so they still have the same bike

and they take it to events.

You know, it's always an attraction.

People go to the bike before they go to a nice car.

We looked at this, and we were just ecstatic.

Something that was an American icon,

like Orange County Choppers,

to be able to build something like this.

Bring notoriety to what we do. It's been a blessing.

This is really gonna help us,

working with Orange County Choppers.

This really draws a lot of attention to the charity.

And once we can draw that attention, once people learn

about what we do and why it's necessary, that's

super helpful to the charity. We're really grateful.

And thank you.

Thank you, Orange County Choppers for picking Grey Bull,

getting our word out there.

Super excited, and you absolutely nailed

exactly what we were going for. -Thank you, OCC!

Grey Bull!

[cheering]

-[disc scratching] -Wait a minute, wait a minute.

-That was louder than OCC. -[all laugh]

[rock music plays]