Although custom cruiser builder Big Bear Choppers ceased crafting its high-end choppers in November 2011, the company voluntarily filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on Friday, May 4, in California Central Bankruptcy Court (Riverside, Calif.).

Big Bear Choppers (Big Bear American Made Choppers, Inc.) is represented by David Philipson of Law Offices of David Philipson, PO Box 2950, Big Bear Lake, CA 92315,
909-878-0055.

As V-Twin blogger Cyril Huze noted, BBC listed a ream of creditors and lenders in its bankruptcy filing. The list, 325 names long, even includes BBC customers that received partially completed motorcycles, or no bike at all. Among the long list of creditors and lenders are Kevin and Mona Alsop, former owners of Big Bear American Made Choppers, Inc.

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Big Bear Choppers (BBC), the manufacturer on the Mountain is going back to its roots “A Chicken in every pot, A Chopper in every driveway” by answering the call for a high quality no nonsense motorcycle with the same top quality components you expect from Big Bear Choppers at an amazing $19,500 price tag with the addition of the new Bear Bones to its 2010 lineup. Now available worldwide the Bear Bones was first introduced at European Bike week in FAAK A SEE Austria in September.

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