Biker Battleground Phoenix
By Melissa Camacho,
Common Sense Media Reviewer
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Bike-builder reality focuses on rivalries; strong language.
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What's the Story?
BIKER BATTLEGROUND PHOENIX is a reality show that features rival custom-bike builders in the Phoenix area designing, reconstructing, and building the most unique and cutting-edge bikes. It stars legendary custom-bike builder Paul Yaffe, his former mentee John Shope, and Brian Jenkins, who rejects conventional ways of bike building. Newcomers Kody McNew and Len Edmondson also join the fray. From designing bikes to showing off at bike shows and redesigning bikes for charity, they spend as much time working on their bikes as they do competing with each other. Fueling their rivalries is a head-to-head bike-building competition among the five builders to see who builds the best bike.
Is It Any Good?
Biker Battleground Phoenix highlights the culture of the $8-billion-a-year industry, where ego and reputation are as important as money. Although the show reveals the amount of creativity, ingenuity, and hard work that goes into each bike these folks work on, most of the show centers on the animosity among the builders.
It won't appeal to a wide range of viewers, but motorcycle enthusiasts will enjoy the shop talk as well as the range of high-concept, tricked-out bikes featured. But the cocky (and sometimes heated) exchanges among these bikers often seem childish and quickly become tiresome.
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Families can talk about motorcycles and motorcycle culture. What are some of the things people expect to see and hear from people who work on and ride these kinds of bikes? Are these expectations based on stereotypes? Do you think TV shows like this one perpetuate these generalizations?
TV Details
- Premiere date: July 1, 2014
- Cast: Paul Yaffe , John Shope , Brian Jenkins
- Network: History
- Genre: Reality TV
- Topics: Cars and Trucks
- TV rating: TV-14
- Last updated: October 23, 2022
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