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Discover Bike Grips on Discovery Channel

Custom-bike builder CC Trikes, known among hard-core custom-motorcycle enthusiasts for its innovative use of massive horsepower, sleek body lines, and spectacular paint and flame jobs, has selected Apache Billet grips for its customized entry in the Discovery Channel?s ?Biker Build-Off.? Debuting in 2002, the show pits two leading chopper builders against each other in a unique bike-building competition.

Now in its fifth season, the Discovery Channel?s ?Biker Build-Off? series has transformed custom motorcycles into a pop-culture phenomenon, driving motorcycle sales and style, reshaping the image of chopper motorcycles, and popularizing the names of many custom-bike builders.

All Apache Billet products are manufactured in the United States of America. According to Peters, the company uses aircraft grade 6061-T6511 aluminum, obtained from a U.S. supplier, and then ?We then turn and mill the material using our fully automated multi-tasking CNC machines in Woodstock, Georgia, and ship them to our Chicago vendor for buffing and a triple chrome plating process."