New Owner 1997 VFR750

So in a bit of randomness, I just got off the phone with the Discovery Channel who want to use my old GS for a TV shoot. And ofcourse I said... Yes.

 

Welcome to you as well.

 

Whoa, woot woot Nice... Yea I had a feeling you stole it, doubly Nice. Hows the inside of the tank look?

 

And even that would be a good price... For comparison: https://denver.craigslist.org/mcy/5646995366.html

Buy low, and keep, I say!

 

The inside of the tank is spotless.

 

To satisfy the proof needed to show the inside of your tank, you'll need to rent or purchase an endoscope. The peanut gallery must have pix!

 

Awesome bikes! Congrats on that beautiful vfr750! :eagerness:

 

Tsk tsk tsk.. Naysayers.

 

Thank you

 

Get a contract. Chance are they will be careful with the bike but some of these outfits use interns who might respond to "moving" the bike might dump it. I made a quick 500 pesos in one day for an ad shoot for a "popular" cola drink. The bike was my SR500. It was red at the time.

If you go and watch, take a lunch. Lots of folks running around being important on those gigs. This is why sometimes a 90 minute movie takes a year to shoot.

 

Yup I plan to stand guard.

 

I made some great student bucks in 1985 when my VF400F was rented for a Japanese domestic Bridgestone tyre commercial being filmed by a Japanese crew in my home city of Auckland, which must have looked quaint and exotic to them. Turned out they also needed a rider, so I got paid for that as well, and ended up with four full days work plus rowdy well lubricated dinners. They also rented new a new RZ250, RG250 and good friend's GPz900, plus a Guzzi 500 (which became magically lighter during a few hours of riding as various parts jumped ship).

I have a nice video memento which includes a helicopter shot of me riding the GPz across our harbour bridge, all nicely (but excitedly) narrated by a Japanese voice telling us all about the virtues of Bridgestone Battlax tyres. The low point was when my friend and I were being filmed at a race track with him riding my VF400 and me on the RG, when we had an unfilmed braking duel into a hairpin and I locked up the minty RG and dropped it, whilst wearing lovely Kushitani leathers and a new Arai. Whoops. Local racer/hero Graeme Crosby was also bought in for some real knee dragging footage, a truly nice bloke.

The crew also hired a young lady who said she could ride, turned out not so, and for one memorable and fortunately long distant shot, my GPz-owning male friend was dressed in her riding gear and with a blond wig draped out of the back of his/her helmet so it looked like a happy couple out for a spin on the Bridgestone-cald VF400 and RZ250. Happy days indeed.

 

Cashew man here...LOL

 

Those Guzzi 500s I'm fairly sure had flywheels that were precursors to Frisbees.. My SR just sat there with a gorgeous critter astride in several takes.

 

Well I sold the GS750 this morning. I'll start a new thread detailing the resurection of the new mount shortly.