Chica, from Huntington Beach, California, built a cobalt blue, intricately crafted work of art in 30 days. Hank Young, a good ole' boy from a small southern town, built a Von Dutch inspired masterpiece. They met in Jackson, Mississippi.

Legendary designer Arlen Ness competes against his son, Cory Ness. Arlen built a big-tank chopper painted day-glow orange with green and purple flames. Cory built a supercharged, gold-etched chopper painted candy red with gold metal flake panels.

Mitch began making bikes in Montreal, but when Quebec fabrication rules cramped his style, he fled to California. Bergeron handcrafts his bikes from the ground up. Country boy Kendall Johnson plans to build a lean, mean chopper sporting a KJ motor.

Known as one of the industry's foremost innovators, Mat Hotch is responsible for sublime custom choppers. His rare bikes have price tags of $90,000 plus. For brothers Joe and Jason Martin, a bike is a work of art it's all about looking cool.

Ex-model Russell Mitchell, who builds industrial, flat black bikes, goes head-to-head with the Detroit Brothers, Motown rough necks who build motorcycles to do mortal combat.