I bet you like to watch Pawn Stars on History Channel. Rick and Hoss and Chumlee are all riders. It's fun to see what people bring-in, and what the shop offers them. Of course, people want retail, and the shop offers much-lower because they need to make a profit.
On a show, "Thirty Something," about buying Chumlee a surprise H-D FXR (1985) for his 30th birthday, so he could ride with Rick and Rick's son to Sturgis, the 'factoid ribbon' at the bottom of the screen made an outrageous claim. "What is the world's fastest motorcycle?" they asked.
They claimed the answer was that piece of advertising/promotion that Dodge made from a Viper engine, the Tomahawk! It goes 350 mph!, they claimed.
What a load of crap!
I was so-incensed by their b.s. claim that I fired-off an email to the show telling them that the bike has never been ridden to a speed one-quarter of that! It would go faster, safer, if someone dropped it off a cliff where it could at-least reach terminal velocity. Then the rider could jump free and us a parachute or a squirrel suit, or something.
Thousands of ignorant people will now believe that a car manufacturer makes the "world's fastest motorcycle," and I'm not referring-to Honda.
Wasn't it Scott Russell, one of America's most-successful road racers, who dumped it during an exhibition ride? If he can't control it what chance do we mere mortals have?
I call, "B.S." on the History Channel. And, I'll still watch Pawn Stars.
On a show, "Thirty Something," about buying Chumlee a surprise H-D FXR (1985) for his 30th birthday, so he could ride with Rick and Rick's son to Sturgis, the 'factoid ribbon' at the bottom of the screen made an outrageous claim. "What is the world's fastest motorcycle?" they asked.
They claimed the answer was that piece of advertising/promotion that Dodge made from a Viper engine, the Tomahawk! It goes 350 mph!, they claimed.
What a load of crap!
I was so-incensed by their b.s. claim that I fired-off an email to the show telling them that the bike has never been ridden to a speed one-quarter of that! It would go faster, safer, if someone dropped it off a cliff where it could at-least reach terminal velocity. Then the rider could jump free and us a parachute or a squirrel suit, or something.
Thousands of ignorant people will now believe that a car manufacturer makes the "world's fastest motorcycle," and I'm not referring-to Honda.
Wasn't it Scott Russell, one of America's most-successful road racers, who dumped it during an exhibition ride? If he can't control it what chance do we mere mortals have?
I call, "B.S." on the History Channel. And, I'll still watch Pawn Stars.