After more than a decade commuting 90 minutes each way to his job at Orange County Choppers, designer, fabricator, and former television star Rick Petko is taking on a new gig right near home.

sat down with former employee Rick Petko to talk about the humble beginnings ... he's kind of hard to miss. His business, Orange County Choppers, had only been around for a few years at that ...

Well, you can kind of say that the same goes at the Orange County Choppers shop at 14 Crossroads ... from the Florida Institute of Technology. Rick Petko is probably one of the most recognizable ...