Hi Marcello, (and CBman)
please don't take what i'm saying in any way offensive or personal..... i beg you to look at what i write as a poor attempt at providing entertainment from this pathetically bored human life form. gawd. forgive me or pity me before you read further... or, stop reading now... please !
(i really do think it's nice they could take the time to get these guys and their bikes together.)
somebody needs to strap me down and medicate me. i tried to fight off the urge to write my "opinion."
i didn't know whether to laugh and walk away, cry or spit in their direction. such media hype kills me. "top dog." "panel of experts." shitty entertainment at it's best or worst, depending on one's individual point of view. BUGGER me, boys !
i skipped through in about 3 minutes the full 22 minutes this video could have taken off my life and decided to spend the remaining 19 minutes writing thus, in my effort to sound really clever or really stupid... or arrogant. the reader can be the judge of me.
Two of the panel of experts were not even drops at the end of Daddy's ding-a-ling when these bikes were produced. so, i would listen to them because... ? oh, i get it... because they can give a fresh, new, unbiased and uninitiated opinion.
and the Rocket 3 and CB750 owners..... experts ? really ? these top dogs were getting paid to be small fish in a big pond to talk a little about something they portray as knowing even less than a little about. Anyway, call me a bitter, cynical, black and white hater....
so, i'm going to give such internet video drivel weight, substance or credence, when, after i have read through some of the posts on this Discussion Board journaling the hours and hours some of us have studied a part and the time we've spent talking to each other, or others, not to mention intensity of passion in our labors to make our bikes what they are. Or, not to mention the people who, back in their time, designed, built and distributed these machines.
now i'm getting tired of myself.... ohh, good. maybe the 'experts' presenting their curriculum vitae's prior to introduction on what qualifies each to be an "expert" followed by a disclaimer of possible ignorance would have helped make this video credible. at least one of the guys looked like he had all he could do to keep from laughing before the introductions.
the real 'experts' are those modest people who banter back and forth on DB's like this one. or who have occasionally taken the spotlight and presented what they know in a factual manner based on their experience and evidence. not the hyperbolic emotionally exhausting testicle withering dramatizations blown up by this blathering panel of top dogs.
i guess the real experts are going to be the guys who think they learned something after spending 22 minutes of their life watching this video and then ride over to the local coffee shop to hoo-haw with their buddies how much they know about Rocket 3's and Cb750's.
oh, dear me. bad steve. someone lock me in a box with no light or sound. Then pipe in Dark Side of the Moon. (Yes, Keith, i AM from Colorado and yes i will drop a urine at any moment's notice.) heh, heh. hee, hee. ho, ho.
ps: all the above is just my rotten attempt at vainglory humor. i beg forgiveness for offence or harm i have caused.
pss: my Grandfather was born 1862, immigrated from the old country in 1877, became a self made success by the age of 30 and died in 1941. i was told his definition of "expert" was "An ex is a has-been and a spurt is a drop of water under pressure making a splash."