Why called "Choppers" ?

[Cube TX]

I'm not sure which edition or what page, but there's a picture in a Paedagogus which has a few brothers on it who have been playing some kind of intramural basketball game and are wearing team shirts that say "Choppers".

I first heard the term myself in 1996. I was with a few of the other guys on a trip to Tucson, AZ to go to the Univ. of Arizona Watermelon Bust. It was a fantastic trip and great party. Anyway, after the party was over we were hanging out in front of the house and someone who was passing by was trying to impress everyone and peeled out on the street. He obviously wasn't the greatest driver and hit a car in front of the SigEp house next door. I went running to see what had happened, but the guy backed up and peeled out again as he sped off.

So there's a group of several people and we're looking at the damage to the car he hit. We're also talking trash about the SigEps and about what a moron this guy was who'd hit the car when a guy named Justin, who had traveled from ASU in Tempe, suddenly asked, "Hey, I got a question... how many CHOPPERs do we have here?" I raised my hand proudly and then he and I realized that we were the only two Lambda Chis there. The rest were SigEps from next door who had come out of their house. I guess they were too distracted to realize we'd been making fun of them and said nothing.

I wonder whatever happened to that driver and how that SigEp paid for the damage to his car.