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2006 Strip Club Special Chopper: Stripper Smorgasbord

Strip Club Choppers' Spokesmodel

writer: Jordan Mastagni
photographer: Ernie Lopez

When you get to the bike show, your routine might go a little something like this: You park your bike or car, check out the bikes, grab a bite to eat, stuff one of the many bags you've collected with free goodies from the vendors, B.S. with some friends, and maybe hit up a bar or two (or three). At the end of the day you find yourself longing for more. Then you think, "I loved all of the bikes that I saw, but what was missing from the event?" Strippers, that's what! Enter John Lange of Strip Club Choppers. He brings both strippers and a bike full of stripper logos for a stripper smorgasbord. Bike events are now more exciting than ever before.

Johnny sets up the booth with this one-off custom bike, and two portable stages with stripper poles for the girls to strut their stuff and for hungry bikers to swoon over. He has multiple friends who either own or manage strip clubs who are willing to help Johnny out at the drop of a hat by supplying him with girls. Sorry, guys, they don't take their clothes off; Johnny is a respectable businessman. But he does bring couches, bar stools and tables, music, and plenty of other goodies to keep you entertained-like a fridge full of booze! "I make it a presentation so people to come back and say, 'hey I had a good time at the Strip Club Choppers booth,'" Johnny said.


Johnny constructed this killer machine to represent the biz. He designed, machined, and fabricated the wheels, rotors, pulley, shift linkage, jockey shift, (basically everything but the motor, trans, and frame) himself. The S&S motor is a monstrous 113 inches, and the six-speed RSD tranny with Tauer Machine primary, but Johnny added his own flavor by designing the primary cover. He got the frame from Russ at Precious Metal Customs. With the 46-degree rake, and 7- out, 5-up stretched frame, Johnny had it powdercoated by Specialized Coatings.

But the bike's story wouldn't be complete without some kind of mishap, right? This poor little stripper bike almost missed its debut at the Cincinnati show last year. He had the rear rim chromed and then powdercoated, but he had to tape off the logos of the girls in order to do so. All of the chrome started bubbling up underneath the powdercoating the night before the show. He had to get in there and smooth everything out and have it powdercoated again on an emergency basis. He called on his buddies at Specialized Powdercoating to work their magic and he managed to get the bike to Cincinnati in time for the show.


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