Rick Petko’s Rise to Fame and Current Ventures
Rick Petko is a motorcycle enthusiast and reality TV star with a net worth of $3 million. He gained fame when he joined the reality TV show American Chopper, working as a fabricator for Orange County Choppers for two years. Petko’s passion for bikes started at an early age, and he worked at Pocono Raceway and for the Hooters Pro Cup team before joining OCC.
As a member of the OCC team, Petko was involved in creating some of their most memorable projects, including the POW/MIA Bike. Although he was rumored to have left OCC in 2011 to start his own bike shop, he has since clarified that he still works with OCC and even joined Paul Jr. Design, working for fellow chopper Paul Teutul Jr.
Petko was a regular on American Chopper’s spin-off, American Chopper: Senior vs. Junior, which revealed the bitter rivalry between OCC and Paul Junior Designs. He also appeared in a 2014 Discovery special American Chopper: Shaq Bike.
In 2012, Petko married Brittany Cockeram, and their wedding was featured on American Chopper. They welcomed a daughter in October 2013. Petko continued to commute 70 miles to work every day at OCC until 2016. Today, he runs a metalwork business called RPD & Co that creates custom knives, wedding bands, furniture, and other products from his farm in the Pocono Mountains region of Pennsylvania.
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