What is it that drive men to pour everything they have into designing and building Harley motorcycles? it is the fame, fortune, or a bevy of hot chicks?? I don’t know about other custom Harley builder, but i can tell you that as far as Mike Toupin is concerned it is the pure love of motorcycles that drive this master craftsman in churning out his award winning one of a kind Harley designs and custom paint.

For as long as i have known Mike Toupin, his shop has been jam packed with bikers seeking the artistic touch of Chopper Design Group for full custom chopper designs to mind blowing custom paint to adorn their already bad ass custom bikes. Ask any of these biker why they would wait up to 2 months to meet with Mike to consign a motorcycle build design or custom paint job, and the answer will be the same; they want nothing but the best and are willing to wait as long as it takes.

Ok so yeah, i am sure if you have been around the custom motorcycle industry for any length of time you have probably met one or two custom designers that have a solid reputation for turning out high quality work, but what you probably didn’t know is that Mike Toupin built his reputation by painting most of those designers choppers. Making him the “go to guy” if you want award winning paint!

Mike is not one of those designers who jots ideas and sketches on paper until he comes up with a design. each new design is all about flow from one spark, a rough idea which how “Bobb-It” was born.

I was in the shop one afternoon when pinstriper Dennis Jones dropped by with the kraftech frame that is the heart of “Bobb-It”. Within 2 hours Mike had pulled the king sporty tank down from a shelf, grabbed a few other parts and had them piled around the frame. The next day a rough mock was under way and the front and rear fenders were being shaped. towards the end of what would be a 2 month build, the fenders, gas/oil tanks, and frame would go back to Dennis Jones shop for hand pin striping, lettering and custom straight razor design.

I watched Bobb-it grow from a dingy pile of parts into the custom bobber that won first place at the 2011 Easy Riders bike show in Los Angeles. It is truly the tiny details of the design that make an award winning custom motorcycle, and it is no small feat building a crafty custom because you have to do it for under $10,000.00 in parts, and many of the parts on Bobb-It were custom made. It wasn’t until the bike was fully painted and reassembled for the last time that the full beauty of this design was evident.

Not the kind of man to rest on his laurels, Mike is hard at work on 2 more truly unique custom Harley designs, and you can rest assured that these new creations will be just as mind blowing and one of a kind sexy as Bobb-It, Nervous Wreck, and Diamond back are! Stay tuned for more!

Oh yeah Bobb-It is for sale too! Serious Inquiries can be send to our contact form

Mike Toupin is considered one of the hardest working custom Harley craftsman you will ever find, with full schedule of custom bike projects in the works, a few top secret private projects underway, and a non-stop flood of bikers hitting Mike up to do custom paint on their bikes, Mike and Chopper Design Group has found the time to make it to the 2010 Easy Riders Bike show in Pomona California, bringing one of their coolest custom creations “Diamond Back”.

Taking Best of show in the spectator class in the 2007 Easy Riders Bike show, they are back again with some at the request of the Easy Riders promotion team. Chopper Design Group will also be bringing a number of other bikes to fully show off the custom building skills that make Chopper Design Group one of the most sought after custom Harley shops in California.

Mike and his crew are all die hard craftsmen who ride hard and live to create the freshest custom chopper designs ever seen. These ain’t some cool yuppies that got lucky with some TV promotion or insider marketing ploy; Chopper Design Group is a crew of a live to ride bikers who know what they want in a custom bike, and know how to convert that knowledge into custom painted, hand built one of a kind Pig Iron!

Rumor also has it that Mike and Easy Riders magazine have a photo shoot in the works as well for the cover of their biker magazine. Details will be posted here as soon as i get them, but until then you can be sure Mike and Chopper Design Group won’t be sitting on their asses waiting for the phone to ring, with a full schedule of custom bike projects already in their shop, and a long list of upcoming projects, you are sure to see these new bikes on this site and on the pages of Easy Riders, and other biker magazines soon!

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Not many people know who Mike Toupin is… he isn’t on any reality TV shows risking life and limb for Television fame…. you won’t see him screaming and yelling at his son on some yuppie biker show…But bikers who live the biker lifestyle to the fullest in Southern California know he is the man to see if you want the sweetest paint job, or want a one of a kind a custom built chopper!

Mike is the owner and founder of Chopper Design Group in La Habra California. For over 30 years Mike has lived been living the life riding hard, and painting and building custom Harley motorcycles. The Chopper Design Group isn’t one of those get rich overnight dreams, but rather a long slow upward grind to the ranks of the elite masters of custom Harley motorcycle design.

Chopper Design Group is dedicated to only one thing: Hand building only the finest Harley motorcycles with the sweetest paint jobs! You can’t put  price on quality, but the Chopper Design Group has the Midas touch when it comes to designing unique award winning Harley Davidson Choppers and Low Riders that are 100% hand built and painted American Hogs!

Mike’s Nervous Wreck is one of many examples of the true artistry that make Chopper Design Group the only choice of Southern California bikers. Featured on the cover of the June 2008 issue of Biker Magazine this slick and sexy 99ci 12 over Custom Street Bomb is a real head turner. Boasting custom hand made parts and a 5 stage Pearl and Candy paint job, Nervous Wreck makes grown men grimace with envy, and the babes beg to straddle the back end of this Milwaukee Vibrator!

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