It’s hard to say what drew me deep out into the Great Smokey Mountains for my first Smokey Mountain Chopper Fest. Was it my fascination with the cultural dichotomy that makes up this particular brand ...

In the late 1960s, it seemed like anything could happen. In 1969 alone, man walked on the moon for the first time. Hundreds of thousands marched peacefully in Washington in protest of the Vietnam War.

January 12, 2005 Mike Seate, author of the book "Choppers: Heavy Metal Art" describes choppers as "1,000 watt ghetto blasters for white people.'' For the last fifty years the art and science of ...