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[Paul Sr.] Coming up on this episode of

Orange County Choppers Original...

[Jim] Leo's got some family members who have autism,

and autism really affects so many of us.

The chopper tells the story, really.

I was thinking about a sensory bike.

[Christian] This is the first time that

we're using an M-8 Harley motor in it.

[Paul] Bend the round bar all the way around the back of the fender

and then attach the metal. -Yeah!

[Christian] That's a bullseye right there!

I'm having some difficulties

because I've never really been in this spot.

You know, we didn't start the bike.

[theme music playing]

[music continues]

[Joanie] So we just finished the Grey Bull chopper, and now,

true to OCC fashion, we are on to the next chopper.

And we're going to go pick up Christian and Jim,

and we're going to head down to our buddy Leo's.

We're going to talk to him about what does autism

acceptance look like, and how can we create

an incredible chopper that actually brings

awareness and acceptance.

Come on, guys!

Welcome to the farm I call All of Abilities,

where we don't recognize disabilities.

The only disability that we really have is not

understanding the abilities that these children have.

We're trying to set up a program where we can bring

children in that are autistic and teach them different levels

of responsibilities and ways to move about through their lives

through equestrian therapy and also riding four wheelers.

Every child that is autistic has a level.

Children that come in with a level three that are non

verbal, they walked out

showing excitement.

The horses, they actually can participate and talk about what

their experience was. When they came,

couldn't say a word. Had no interest in people.

And they leave, they just show this brightness, this happiness

that they have.

It's the most rewarding thing to understand that I'm the one

with the disability.

-How we doing? -Beautiful day for riding.

-How are you? -Nice to meet you.

-How are you? -Good.

Hi, I'm Joanie.

To move forward and to continue this program, I want

to expand it more than just autism awareness.

I want to make it autism awareness and acceptance.

And I think taking a look at all this, it gives you a lot of

insight into what the chopper would mean.

You know what I mean? And I think that...

Yeah, I think that's the most important part.

The chopper tells the story,

really, is what we always say. -Yeah.

So we're kind of thinking about a sensory bike.

-How did you start? -I grew up

doing a lot of summer programs and working with kids,

and I really loved it.

I had my oldest kiddo really young, and she's autistic,

and then she's nine now.

When your kid's diagnosed autistic, you just get handed

this world of pamphlets that don't make sense,

and you're just...

basically sent to deal with it on your own.

And that's where it all gets confused.

Just because you're autistic, your brain works differently.

You don't...

You get angry, you get overwhelmed,

and people don't... -I never get angry.

[laughing]

People don't understand that, like, just because you get

angry or frustrated, it's just how

their brain works. They don't know how to...

Everything's black and white for them.

And the biggest thing for me, I can say, you're a part of

that bike.

The confidence, the levels, and their friends,

the kids around will be, like,

...amazed.

Now they're the coolest kids on the block.

I don't care, you know?

I mean, that's what my goal is with this bike.

And I like to take it around with my granddaughter...

and show the people

how amazing these children are and how amazing this bike is

going to help represent it.

I want to make sure that I bring, you know,

acceptance to autism.

That's a great statement and it's a great mission.

And I believe that Leo and his family

are certainly going to do that because they are

pretty tenacious.

How nice are these wheels, seriously?

Right? Look at how the, like,

the contrast cut almost looks like diamonds.

It almost reminds me of, man?

-The old Trans Am. -Yes, yes.

-Yeah, yeah, the wheels, right? -Yeah.

Yeah, SMT does a really nice job of these rims.

Anthony should be here any minute.

Yeah, I think he said he's on his way over.

He's thinking really hard. He may just knock on the door.

[knocking]

Hey, who's there?

There it is.

Hey, Anthony! [door shuts]

Help me out?

That's nice.

You said this part stretched back here?

Yeah, we stretched it back here about three and a half

inches because the touring transmission is so long with

the oil tank built in that if you would have kept it in

a stock location, the back of the tire would have hit

the back of the oil pan. So we stretched it.

You can't really tell, but yeah.

-You really can't tell. -Good job, man.

-There you go, man. -Very clean.

Thanks, bro. Appreciate you.

Get my next frame done.

I got another one coming after that.

[rock music]

Good rotation.

Is that what you want going on?

You want to put the front end together or something?

I don't do front ends. I only do rear.

[grinding]

[rock music]

Are you using the Harley Davidson primary?

I'm doing a close primary, but it's a Harley Davidson.

-So it's a stock M-8, like... -Yeah.

If you put the transmission in there, wait until you try it.

We should just make a look at it.

-I got the hardware... -Get that fender under there.

Okay.

I'm assuming it's an R. The smaller one on this side.

I see it. It says right side.

-It's probably this side. -I'm just guessing.

-I don't know. -Yeah, it's an R.

Okay.

[Paul Sr.] I have a 1974 Harley that I bought new in 1974 that's

in the restaurant.

And I kind of like the way the fender was done.

And the Smith brothers did that.

I wanted to try and duplicate that somewhat with the bike

that I was doing with him, the autism bike.

[Paul Sr.] Okay. Show of hands for "A".

This is his version of democracy.

Obviously, building this bike, it's for a good cause.

Most of the bikes that we do, generally, are for good causes.

I mean, it's good to learn more about autistic people.

It affects millions of Americans, and just learn

a little bit about them.

What I did for Paul today was, actually, we had a 117 motor

that we got from Burt's that Burt's letting Paul use,

and I actually tore it down for him for the guys to get it

powder-coated to match some of the colors on the frame

and the covers and all that. Then this is an M-8.

So we're basically what we're going to do is we're coming up

with going to use one of the other platforms to get rid

of all the wiring harnesses and run a carburetor on it.

So it's gonna be kind of cool for Paul.

[indistinct conversation and laughs]

[rock music]

[tapping]

[rock music]

[Christian] Let's see here, for... [welder sparks]

I think that we got more done than I thought that

we would get done.

You know, we decided to do something a little bit

different on the fender.

Christian did the complete front end.

The gas tank's on.

We still got to build a sissy bar.

We're gonna run a king queen seat, and then we got

an exhaust, which is gonna be...

That's gonna take a little time, too.

But, I mean, for our first day, I think we did good.

[Paul Sr.] Drew brought two sets of handlebars in there.

It was kind of difficult for me to figure out, really,

which one I like better, because they're both so cool.

A lot of times, I like to have other people's opinions.

I still felt that there was

a pretty close match up to either or.

Look at the other set just for ha ha's?

Yeah, yeah.

These are nice, you think, bro?

-Yeah, they're heavy, too, man. -Yeah, they're heavy.

Yeah, it's got rods in there.

We're gonna have to take a vote here.

I like the first one.

We got these, which, they're very cool.

I like that it has the rods already in it.

And chrome are really gonna be a showstopper.

Hey, you're an "A" guy?

I think "A"'s gonna match the sissy bar more

with the twist.

Yeah. Kinda does.

I like them both, but I think...

Oh, they're both great, but I think that's gonna

match better. -One or the other?

-"A". -You're an "A".

-You're an "A". -"A".

You're an "A".

I'm gonna say "A", because I want "B"s for myself.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There you go.

-Mike? -I like "B".

-You like these ones? -I like "B".

-You're out voted. -I know.

-Go back outside. -Okay.

-Come back in when you're ready to say "A". -Okay.

I guess a twisted one. Probably more...

That's like a half twist, isn't it?

Yeah. This is like a half twist.

You can do more like this. Okay.

I mean, I like those a lot.

I just made those the other day.

-"A" or "B"? -I mean, I would go with "B".

Don't get me wrong, I like the full twisted one.

-Do you like that better? -It's a tough call.

We might have to flip a coin. You know what I mean?

Okay, show of hands for "A".

I like the risers, Bill. Cleans it up.

This is his version of democracy.

He's going to put out what he wants.

-It doesn't matter what we say. -Yeah, you guys can do it.

-You can vote however you want. -All right.

-I got [bleep] to do. I'm going back to work. It's up to you, Mike.

-I'm a delegator. -I'm a delegator.

-Okay. -We've got a lot to do today.

Drew's going to be working on the sissy bar.

We're bringing in Eric to

do the Magneto.

[rock music]

It fits right on the fender, perfect.

It goes perfectly straight all the way up.

[Paul talking indistinctly]

Anthony knew a gentleman who makes Magnetos to convert

all of the Harley stuff over to chopper style, get rid of a lot

of pieces and stuff we don't need.

So Eric's coming over in a little while to help us put

it together and teach us all about it.

With this setup, you have the Magneto and you

have the two wires, or you can run all four plug wires,

run into the plugs, and you can literally run the bike just off

of that. -All right, put the Magneto on.

All right.

-Look all right? -Yeah.

We're going to have a badass bike.

Oh, yeah.

It's like a cutaway of how the impulse coupler works.

Let's see, it stops a paw.

And this is the same technology as airplanes still use today.

So this is the first time that we're using

an M-8 Harley motor in it.

The wiring's a little different.

Generally, you know, from the factory, there's all

types of sensors. There's like 5,000 wires.

There's computers, everything else, fuel pump.

So what we did was we eliminated a lot of

the wiring by using a Magneto setup and going to carburetor.

Having such a prestigious title as delegator, I feel

it's my duty when my father's away to really lean on these

guys and give them a hard time. What's going on over here, huh?

You know, I got a job to do like anyone.

I think it worked.

I kind of, you know, kept them moving.

And I don't think we'd be as far as we got today without me.

-They're scared. -Yeah, Del

ran away. -Del's scared of you.

The sissy bar is coming along.

Definitely taking longer than I think everybody's expecting,

but it looks amazing, so it's worth the time.

Christian's been knocking out a bunch of stuff with the tank.

We had a gentleman come over today that's working on

a conversion for the M-8.

Really smart guy, really interesting, so I'm

curious to see how that...

all comes together, but

it looks amazing on the bike.

I think it's going to be a cool build, for sure.

[Paul Sr.] I brought Del here, who's a super, super guy,

and how I know him is we do a bike week here,

and he's brought a few of his bikes here, and he just

does amazing work. -My name's Del Battle.

I'm from Crown Point, Indiana.

Working with Drew, he showed me certain things to do,

tips and whatnot. And really, it ain't that bad.

And I'm going to incorporate it in some of the builds I'm doing

back home now. Yeah, Drew, he's a good guy.

Hand me that torch.

Got to be a better way.

And I'll tell you what the better way is.

The better way is if you have something with a lot

more leverage. -Yeah.

-You know what I mean? -Yeah.

-You want to try it, Paul? -Give me that.

[bluesy music]

Give me my job.

So it was cool because I got to show Paul how to do it

the old-school way, which is, you know, the torch,

you know, and then twisting it the certain styles that

you wanted it. So it was a lot of fun.

I like it.

Good job. That's the process, man.

It takes a while.

You got to finesse it a little bit, you know what I'm saying?

But you did 30 and then the four-inch emblem over on

top of it. -34 overall.

Yeah.

-Does that make sense? -Yeah.

Oh, we're doing pretty good, I think, you know,

for two days.

We got the front end on, we got the calipers on,

the wheels lined up, handlebars we got.

So we're doing pretty good.

Tomorrow, I'd like to see at least the sissy bar

and the seat pan made for the king-queen seat.

And then we'll go right to the exhaust, which probably

will be the most time consuming.

So we got the tank.

I mounted it up, welded it down, and I was thinking

you can even do it when you run the hose like this,

even, instead of, or you can just do a straight hit.

It don't matter, you know, same [bleep].

Yeah, so put it there, something like that.

Of course, it's going to be a clear hose, so you can see

the fuel level in there.

We decided we wanted, you know, just like a fuel

gauge on the side, like a basic old chopper fuel gauge,

with just a fuel line, so you can just, you know,

visibly just look and see your fuel level.

This type of fabrication, I've never done, so I'm picking

up, and it's a blast, like I say.

It's a good time.

Everybody is great, and can't wait till tomorrow.

I look forward to coming back tomorrow.

Hey, I got a lot of threads in there.

I beefed it up.

[Mikey] Yeah, Christian's lathing some parts out, to put into

the battery box area in order to shim them up so that we can

fully assemble the part.

I don't know what he's doing, to be honest with you.

I'm kind of watching him, keeping him company,

you know?

Some days I'm just sitting here and I'm just waiting for that

second hand to keep racing around the clock, you know?

Come in.

That's pretty close, yeah.

I'll take that.

The other one's not good, right?

Yeah, we gotta pull that one in just a tad.

Yeah.

Yeah, and everything else, this side's out.

The fender's gotta be...

The fender's not really square here.

You know what I'm saying? We got it right.

It was worth it because it's really a nice sissy bar.

A lot of time in that sissy bar.

And then Drew's gonna be...

working on the exhaust, which I'm really excited about.

Let me see, brother.

Yeah, that's cool.

That's cool, man.

So I'm really excited about this bike.

It's for autism awareness, and I think it's turning out

better than we had expected. -Do you want to pass the axle?

I'd like to do it like this.

Or you want it really close to the...

You want them dual like that?

Is that a pain in the ass? I want them.

-We can do it. -I think that'll look cool.

Okay.

Just have them parallel like that, one side?

Yeah, it could be, you know, you could leave

a little space in between. -Yeah.

You know what I mean?

-Whatever, blow your ears out. -Right?

-Whatever, blow your ears out. -Right?

So I'm going to jump on the exhaust.

We're going to do like a two-inch exhaust,

and we're going to do like a really cool upsweep,

old-school chopper style,

then probably just go real tall.

[Paul Sr] This is keeping it up over here, you know?

-Right. -What's...

Let's mark it and shear it.

We can do that, right?

That's about where that's gonna be no matter what, right?

So...

Yeah, that's good. Let's get it all centered.

[metal clanging]

Let's just press it down a little bit again.

Back and center.

We're gonna have to add a piece in base.

Go up.

There's a little bit. There you go, right there.

That'll work.

-Just the top with your finger? -Oh, no, like this top.

I don't know, man. It's looking pretty baller to me.

It's a perfect fit.

I don't know. Wait a second.

Tell me when it's straight. Gotta get it right first.

You guys, man.

You and your buddy Drew over here.

Shooting at darts in the dark.

[Drew] Get going on making the pipes.

I think I'm gonna do, like, an upsweep setup on

this one.

And that's what Paul was wanting.

We're gonna do something real tall.

And, uh...

Yeah, it'll be kind of old-school chopper stuff.

It'll look good.

All right, so now I got something to work with.

I want three-quarter to two inch.

So we're going to bolt these into the motor.

[Paul Sr] I mean, what do you think there, Del?

I like your idea from yesterday's side-by-side.

That'll give it a more of a one-of-a-kind look.

Let me see, brother.

Yeah, that's cool.

-That's cool, man. -Right, bro?

Yeah, that's nice. Hold that there for a second.

Don't move.

Smile.

Never mind, don't smile. All right, good.

-Back to work. -Kind.

[Drew] Kind of looking at it and see if I like it.

I'm the one that's got to like it.

Let me know, because I only got, I got, well, I guess

we got a little bit more straight piece.

I like it.

We're going to go a little bit higher on the sissy bar.

So, I'm just trying to tie in this last little 45 that I need

to do, so. -Today went good.

It's our fourth day.

I think that for, you know, we're not working

with a huge crew like with the OCC we had in New York,

but I think that we're getting a lot done.

-Nice, smooth moves. -Very good.

Competition.

So building these bikes back to back like we are doing,

it builds the tension and the stress level

a little bit. So Paul had a great idea.

Let's do something to blow off some steam, some team building.

So there's a place down the street, Peepaw's.

They have some axe throwing in the back.

We figured this is a great way to get off some steam,

have some fun, and just get out of the shop for a few hours.

So welcome on in. Name is Nigel.

This is Peepaw's Garage here.

We are an official Waddle venue,

World Axe Throwing League.

So you guys are going to be throwing on the same style

boards that pros compete on.

I am a certified coach for that organization.

More importantly, at least for me,

is I am a certified judge for that organization.

So I will definitely be judging you guys here today.

Nice, smooth whoosh. Very good.

-Not bad. -Competition.

One. That is actually one of my...

-Yeah. -Very good.

Damn!

Who would have known that Mikey is like...

an axe throwing god?

Oh my god!

That's a bullseye right there!

You know, the guy picked up an axe.

I think the second throw, he was nailing it.

There it was.

That's a solid stick right there.

Christian and Paul did really well, as did Joannie and myself,

but yeah, those three were really on target.

I was pretty happy with my performance.

The guy that took it away was Christian, but I still think

the best, the best thrower here was Michael.

-Hey, there we go. -It's pretty cool.

I don't think any of us has ever done it before.

A lot of fun, a lot of stress release, and I think it was

a good time, but it's time to hit back to the shop

and get that bike built.

My name is Billy Rude.

I actually work at Burt's Barracuda Harley Davidson,

which is right next door here to Paul's shop.

Me and Paul kind of, you know, met in passing in

the shop there, and anything I can help out with, I try.

Use the spacers and then your pivot shaft.

Hey, it's what's his name?

-Help. -He was here last week.

-How's it going? -Everything's in, man.

-You're done? -Yeah, we're done.

What about the speedo? What about the primer?

So we have a... If you need me to come back over and throw

that together, I can.

We're starting out a little shaky.

Some of the stuff wasn't powder-coated.

The exhaust needs to be re-coated.

But we're moving along now, and we got Mikey here.

Where's Mike?

He's doing inventory. He's sandbagging.

-He's inventory. -So we got to get back to work.

Yeah, buddy.

Man, that looks nice.

-What you doing here? -Last-minute decision.

What did you do, come all the way down?

-Yeah. -When?

-Got here yesterday. -My man Ken flew down.

Surprise, surprise.

The colors are great, the beige color.

The color is really nice. I really like that color.

To me, it's nostalgic.

Almost looks like psychedelic, man.

Wow, that's really nice, doesn't it?

As usual, they always give me that real tight timeline.

Supposed to ship it out.

Didn't quite make it, so I had to jump on a plane, put it in

my suitcase, and get it here.

Tried to replicate, like, some of the toys that they use

for autism, the Pop-Its

and the rear fender

we did the fidget spinners, mounted those on.

Every bike we do, I find there's a message in it.

The more the message gets out to more and more people,

the better it is.

And so that's kind of my philosophy is, you know,

like, let people that are not informed get informed.

-Where I put the bottom on. -Yes.

Good design.

I said, "Man, this bike, the color and everything,

it would look great, you know?" -What do you want me to do?

-Obviously. -I love the bars.

I do, too.

They're really different, you know?

-They're cool. -Everything's pretty cool.

The old man's got eyes in the back of his head.

-He's got a fidget spinner. -Fidget spinner.

-That's wild, right? -That is wild.

The tank for the autism bike is my all-time favorite.

I always said I never had a favorite, but there's just

something magical about it. It's the colors, it's the feel.

I could not have been happier than I was with that tank.

The bike looks amazing, doesn't it?

The bike does look amazing, honestly.

How nice is that bike?

I don't think I've ever seen a white engine.

It's not a white, it's white and black.

You want to argue over what color it is?

Oh.

You're colorblind, so stay out of it.

-I picked the colors, so... -Of course you did.

If it's done right, you picked it.

-Right, Jim? -Pretty much.

-Yeah. -So...

Actually, tomorrow, if everything goes good,

we should be able to get pretty close.

Bill's coming in tomorrow morning.

He's gonna do the primary.

Hopefully, we'll get the exhaust tomorrow.

So if we get-- Al's coming in tomorrow,

so that'll be a big help.

Again, like I always say, as long as something else don't

come up, I think that... I think we should,

we should be on time.

Yeah.

That makes a difference. Yeah.

Boom, right through the whole billboard.

Yeah, you can't ask for a better track.

You might be right, Al.

Oh, that goes right on here.

There was two here, and there was two there.

This side, son?

-Yeah. -Go ahead, man.

LED Forever.

They do all the bike events around here.

Uh huh?

So when you said you wanted to put LEDs on here,

they were the first ones I thought of.

They're local, which is good.

So we had Manny come in to do the LED lights, and I think

that it was kind of appropriate

for the autism bike because, you know, the colors and stuff

like that we tried to blend in.

I think if we do a multicolor kit, it would be amazing

because you can go with all the nice colors you got

on the bike. -Right.

And I think your key fob controller

will work good on this one.

-Yeah, we can turn 18 colors. -Light it up, man.

[bleep] Make a Christmas tree out of it.

Christmas tree?

[Mikey] Sit down.

I want to tell you I'm proud of the man you've become.

Thanks, Mike.

That means a lot coming from you.

Yep.

Proud of what you've accomplished here.

-Yeah? -Yeah.

I'm so impressed. I was overwhelmed.

I had to come out here and get some air.

And, uh...

He didn't return the words at all.

[laughter]

I just like spending time with my dad.

He's old. He's really old.

He's older than he looks.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

-Dude, that frame's cool. -That good?

-Blue, blue, blue, blue, blue. -It looks amazing, man.

The colors are gonna be nice.

The kids are gonna like it,

you know? Yeah. Which is important.

[Paul Sr] Manny from LED Forever put lights underneath the bike,

underneath the gas tank, and they'll change colors,

so that should be, you know, when we unveil a bike

for the kids, they should get a kick out of that, too.

Sure.

-How You guys doing? -Good.

-How are you? -Good.

Coming in here to work on a bike or what?

Huh?

You got your mechanics license?

-Um, sure. -Somewhere, right?

You just can't find it.

We had a Tourney here today, and my wife knows his mom.

Evidently, he's interested in bikes and stuff like that.

So we invited him over to get a little bit involved in

the bike that we're working on now.

This guy's going to take your job, Mike.

Oh, man, that's not hard.

-That was easy. -There you go, man.

Kid's a born writer.

-Mom needs to get pictures, Mom. -Look mean.

-Real mean. -There you go.

Something doesn't look right here.

You need the helmet or something?

No, no.

You got to have sunglasses, Mom.

-It'd be cool. -Yes, I know.

You see how cool I am?

That's because of the sunglasses.

What do you mean?

Jeez.

You're good, bro.

Boom.

There's one on the other side, too.

An Orange County shopper shirt with my signature on it.

Don't put it on EBay, okay? All right.

I won't. I'm just going to show it off.

You're going to show it off? Good man.

It was a great experience for me, but I'm sure it was more of

an experience for him, you know?

Good to see that...

he got involved, and I know that when he left here,

he had a big smile on his face. All right, good job.

Thank you.

All right.

Okay.

We got all the spark plugs in there, right?

[laughter]

-There's four of them? -There's four.

How do you know which one go where, though?

It doesn't matter.

The front and the rear is the rear.

And that's why we had to switch these around.

We had it wrong at first.

We didn't switch them back by accident, did we?

No.

[engine sputters to start]

[engine running]

[revving]

-It's not coming back. -There's...

-I mean, it sounds good. -Try that.

[engine not firing]

It's been a pretty long day, and the bike started for

a little while, and the throttle...

Actually, the spring was bad on the carburetor.

But we've been...

you know, we put the Magneto on there, which nobody's really

that familiar with the Magneto, especially the newer bikes like

this, or even this motor, period.

But right now, we can't get it going.

We've worn the battery down. The guy that put the Magneto in

that runs that company, he's going to come

in the morning.

And everybody seems to think it's something

with the Magneto.

I'm not worrying about getting the bike started.

We're going to get it started. It's not like it's uncommon.

Happens to the best of us.

And, you know, the main thing

is to persevere and get it done.

Then I spin at 180.

So my dot is there and the other dot is the top.

I just wonder if that cam timing's not off with going

the way you're going the top dead center on this and it's

not letting it take it

up or something. I'm not sure.

I don't know how this one works.

Why don't you put it on your top dead center?

Let's see what our cam timing's at?

Can you get it to that?

Let's just take a look at that and see if those dots are off,

then the cam timing's definitely off.

So these M-8 conversions with the Magneto

is something we've never done before.

Because usually Christian's pretty good at figuring it out,

diagnosing it, and fixing it.

But this was a little more than we've all done before

and a little more than we're used to.

Anything with the Harleys even, like even when I'm doing

not adjustables, I have to set my cam timing there,

drop the pushrods in, and then everything will start.

Once you're there, so like I'm putting my sprockets on.

So once I put those sprockets on,

I'll line my cam up, I'll line my crank up

with those two diodes.

My crank's lined up now to my cam, so that's how you get

the timing on that.

We keep trying process of elimination, and thus far

we haven't been successful with it.

We have the right people here.

I guess the thing is that we just have to keep going.

Never really been in this spot, per se, before.

It's a different motor.

Things are a little bit different than the usual, so it

does make it a little bit more difficult.

I do believe that eventually we'll get it.

We got to sit down with Leo and his daughter

and his son-in-law.

And again, great people.

I think that they struggle daily with people's...

inability to just accept that

many of these children are just a little bit different.

-So, how's Olivia? -She's wonderful.

She's been very excited about this whole thing we got

going on. Today, she's a little apprehensive.

You know, as we know, some days she comes in, she likes to be

a part of the filming, and then other days it just

gets overwhelming. -We're exactly the same way.

For real.

You know, people talk about awareness, and awareness

is great. A lot of people are aware.

But to truly just accept and embrace the love

and everything these kids have is way more important, I think.

The biggest thing about it is just to show her the support

that out there in the real world she doesn't

get overwhelmed. -Right.

And, you know, she's really come a long ways.

I mean, throughout this whole experience,

the process, meeting all these new people, being part of

something that's bigger than her, it's been amazing for me.

And I know, you know, I got tears in my eyes already.

I mean, you know, I'm too big to cry, but, you know,

here it is. -That's why I wear sunglasses.

I got mine on my head.

So, as parents, what would be your summation?

What if you have an autistic child?

What does that mean?

She's living in a world that's not accommodating to her.

Some days, like yesterday,

was a very good day for her. She could have done anything.

Today, a little bit of a rough day, so she's not here because

it's a low functioning day. -Moral, like, what we're doing

is we're sending out a message, and I don't think that message

gets out there enough.

So what you're talking about here, people don't know what

you're talking about, for the most part.

-I agree. -You know what I mean?

So really the whole, as far as I'm concerned,

the bike's always a tool,

but I think that we have to create the message.

-Yes. Yes. -You know what I mean?

And then from there, the bike kind of takes it over

because you're going to use that as a tool

for people when they come around whatever events

or whatever it is, there's something to talk about

there, whether it's kids or parents.

It's all about that.

How are we looking on the bike for tomorrow?

Huh. Yeah, yeah.

-I think we're okay. -Does it have gas?

It needs a little more gas.

Because we need to have to start it.

Never really been in this spot.

You know, we didn't start the bike.

Start it! Start it!

Good?

[engine running]

Aw yeah! Right.

[engine revving]

When you move that back. Yeah.

[laughter] That's a relief.

Listen, did you think at any time that that was going to be

something simple that was wrong with it?

We know it is, but we didn't...

It took a little while troubleshooting different

things, and we came to the realization that after

changing the spark plugs and checking the timing,

timing was still perfect, everything,

the compression releases were just staying on a little

too long, so we just disconnected

the compression releases, and it fired right up.

It's turning.

[engine running]

It's got many of my friends out of tickets

cause they're real bad-- they're sticklers over this.

-Yeah, right.

[Jim] So we're super excited.

We're about to leave to go do the unveil of the Autism

Awareness bike.

Can't wait to see what Leo and his family and his

granddaughter think about the bike, because it's really

all about them and their cause to bring awareness to autism.

So I hope everything goes well.

[Joannie] The reveal day was just like, amazing.

The kids were just so excited, and I think that they didn't

know what to expect.

I'm pretty sure that we nailed it this time in terms of

building the bike.

It took a lot of creativity and thought into making sure

that this bike speaks to all of us.

[Paul Sr] You know, we didn't start the bike.

We rolled it out of there because, again,

you know, we weren't really sure.

And the next thing, everybody goes, start the bike ,

start the bike. -Start it!

Start it!

[cheering]

To me, it rolled out the way it should roll out.

It was their show. It's their bike.

[Jim] It was just a great day.

And I think we're going to bring a lot of awareness.

Leo loved it, which was the most important thing.

But even more important than that was

Leo's granddaughter loved it.

She wouldn't stop talking about it.

She was always by the bike.

So it's a home run as far as I'm concerned.

We really feel fortunate and blessed that we're in

a position to bring awareness. -Amazing!

I'll be screaming at the top of my lungs!

My wife will be like, "What's wrong with you?"

I said, "It's just amazing." -The kids are just pure.

They're unique.

And I'm really, really honored to be a part of this.

I think the bike is absolutely stunning, amazing.

It couldn't have came out any

better beyond what I could have even thought.

I'm so excited about it. I love it.

I thought it was one of my favorite unveils.

You know, I'm a kid and animal person.

So, yeah, this was special for me.

Paul did a great job.

And I think Leo really loved it.

And I think the people here really loved it

and appreciated it.

So another successful unveil for OCC.

That's an old-school chopper.

So it's keeping the old-school choppers alive.

-It's cool and it's awesome. -It's amazing.

-I really like it so much. -This motorcycle is awesome.

This is a really cool bike.