This reality TV series centers around a father-son duo, Paul Teutul Sr. and Paul “Paulie” Teutul Jr. who create custom motorcycles in their shop, Orange County Choppers, in Newburgh, New York.

Paul and Paulie disagree about their business, and much of it is played out for the cameras in arguments that can be explosive, yet humorous. Paul Sr. supervises at the shop, overseeing the building of these custom bikes, and looking in on Paulie as well as other fabricators and mechanics, Rick Petko, Nick Hansford, Christian Welter, Vincent DiMartino, and Cody Connelly. Paul’s youngest son, Michael (Mikey), works at Orange County Choppers as well, as the custodian and webmaster. Danny, Paul’s second oldest child, is seen occasionally, doing metal work at Orange County Ironworks.

Paulie eventually leaves Orange County Choppers and the show follows his starting his own design company. Vincent leaves to start his own company as well and is joined by Cody. The series has gone on to inspire a series of video games for several different game system, as well as a pinball arcade game.