OCC now a Ducati dealership...

[mookieo2]

you guys cant tell me that if you were in the business of selling anything motorcycle related you wouldnt want the potential sales that obnoxious OCC brand could generate.....anyone who says no is not truthful

+1

I also can`t wait till Paul dumps a brand new 1198. As long as he`s not injured.( I don`t want to see anyone hurt)  Even though he`ll be wearing Lugz, a t shirt, and jeans.

[That Nice Guy Beck!]

didnt hd already buy ducati last year???

[OT]

Stopped at Fast by Ferracci on Saturday (needed a few o-rings) and Eraldo was pacing in and out of the showroom - his face was deeply etched with a baffled, pained look; now I understand why....

Does this mean that OCC will show up here as a Sponsor and post threads? 

From a demographic standpoint.........it is a nice fit.

dunno, OCC's in the middle of nowhere, and there are several reputable dealerships in the NY Metro area...who's gonna ride/drive there to buy a bike?

It would make sense to DNA if Ducs started appearing on the TV show, which may be one of the things OCC's getting paid for... 

[bluemoco]

didnt hd already buy ducati last year???

Nope.  H-D bought MV Agusta and all the Cagiva brands.

[Sause]

I was talking to a friend who works at the local Ducati shop and within a certain amount of time for becoming a dealer you must have a Ducati Trained Technician on staff. If not then it void the contact or something along those lines.

Yes the show now sucks. There seems to be very little CUSTOM parts being made in house.

Guess what this means is that the Ducati motorcycle has now become part of the collective zeitgeist. This was bound to happen once everybody heard what they tend to sound like when one cores the pipes. Ducati is growing in this country. Hopefully the Teutuls do right by them. They had better hire somebody with some tech finesse relative to the brand, for if the service department sucks who knows. I may be wrong but all I've seen on TV is a bunch of guys getting into arguments over how to assemble bikes from premanufactured chrome mail order parts (with some exceptions, a couple of guys with some sheet metal expertise and a couple more with painting skill). Maybe Ducati approached them as a calculated move to increase their market exposure.

[KEH]

I think we all could see the end of the custom chopper fad coming soon. I always wondered how this would impact OCC. Yeah, I admit, I do like watching the show. Well, with last Thursday's episode, we saw that they were going to start laying off people. And they were talking about going international, in order to tap into more stable foreign economies. They didn't mention Ducati at all. I wonder if they will introduce it to the show at all.

My biggest gripe with the show and OCC is, while their technological capabilitiies continued to increase (5 axis waterjet, cnc machines, etc), their creativity continued to decrease. Each bike looks the same as the last. They've basically boiled the custom chopper down to a certain frame and just tack on gaudy do dads. The bikes have become less interesting so the show has concentrated more on the Teutul family squabbles. Now they've got the Paul Jr. firing, which is a storyline that will probably take them through this entire season.

[VaTerps]

...while their technological capabilitiies continued to increase (5 axis waterjet, cnc machines, etc)...

That 5 axis waterjet is amazing.  And it does allow them to do some outrageous CUSTOM work that can't be duplicated at many shops.

Btw, the OCC website does not mention anything about a Ducati dealership...maybe I'm not looking in the right place.  The NEWS section does say that they will be unveiling a "tricked out" 1100 Monster as part of their 10th anniversary festivities.

[onederer]

We're all going down the drain...:-(

Speak for yourself pale-face.

I for one can separate my like for my motorcycle from blind brand worship.
I could care less if Ducati started selling the bikes at the local Target stores or the 7-11.

I have my motorcycle. I like it. And if one day Ducati starts selling choppers, I will look at it and if I find it pleasing buy it.
It's just a motorcycle company. One that happens to build some that I have really liked, Some and others that I didn't.

I hope that the dealership does well and treats it's clients right.

[danaid]

I was talking to a friend who works at the local Ducati shop and within a certain amount of time for becoming a dealer you must have a Ducati Trained Technician on staff. If not then it void the contact or something along those lines.

Yes the show now sucks. There seems to be very little CUSTOM parts being made in house.

My local, crappy, incompetent, mega brand dealer gets by this rule by having a Ducati mechanic on duty for only two days a week.

[The Bacon Junkie]

dunno, OCC's in the middle of nowhere, and there are several reputable dealerships in the NY Metro area...who's gonna ride/drive there to buy a bike?

Some nice roads up that way...   If I still lived back east, I'd be tempted to go there just for the ride.

Side note... when I was selling office furniture door to door (don't ask, long story), My buddy sold them those office chairs you see them sitting in.

[OT]

I'd heard that they got in trouble a few years back (before TV) with NY DMV for some of the ways they operated their "inspection station"...

[MotherGoose]

The official press release via autoblog:
http://www.autoblog.com/2009/04/24/paul-teutul-sr-from-orange-county-choppers-launches-ducati-deal/

Anyone else as scared as I am of where this might take the brand?

[Grampa]

it's one dealership


Wilsons in Fresno has done more Duc damage than OCC could ever do.

[MotherGoose]

Problem there being Wilson's doesn't have an international weekly television show to promote their debauchery to the masses

it's one dealership


Wilsons in Fresno has done more Duc damage than OCC could ever do.b

[COWBOY]

speaking of branding.

Love the new avatar Papa.  Nice work on the Simpsonesque portrait