High Performance Early 'Wing Needed for TV Show

[CYBORG]

Celebrity is not cheap ...or without risks!

Very true …. if that is what a person is looking for.

[jtmillan]

Everybody has a different perspective, but I wouldn't go near this proposition. The motivational factors/driving forces are at completely opposite ends. Case in point:

The production company's motiviation is to "borrow" and use someone's prized possession born of personal commitment, time and money.

The GL owner's motivation is the preservation while sharing for view a rare and personal commodity.

The production company needs to create the most "spectacular situational outcome" that attracts the greatest attention by similarly uninvested viewers. They will argue the "fame" of having your motorcycle displayed in a national TV program as the only/greater part of remuneration, rather than monetary consideration.

Their spectacular situational outcome could result in either the "sleepers" borrowed GL besting a staged adversary by thrashing the motorcycle unmercifully - or a catastrophic failure of the machine in the pursuit of same. Frome the production company's perspective, a catastraphic failure caught on film would make an even more spectacular ending. In all-out racing, catastrophic failure of the machine often leads to further disastrous events. Which in turn could make for even better "spectacular" endings.

I would also bet the excuse of "don't have enough time to build their own" is really translated as "cheaper to cajole someone else into using theirs for the benefit of seeing it on a national TV program".

I don't see any net positive outcome for the GL owner. I am often proved wrong, however. Perhaps I'm too harsh and assuming on Hollywood-esque enterprise.

Jim in Houston

[jtmillan]

I was really just looking for a recommendation for locating the square-edged O-ring that seals the 2 halves of the rear brake caliper when I came across the TV Show post. The rear caliper seal is no longer available from Honda. Somehow got off track..sorry.

[randakk]

I was really just looking for a recommendation for locating the square-edged O-ring that seals the 2 halves of the rear brake caliper when I came across the TV Show post. The rear caliper seal is no longer available from Honda. Somehow got off track..sorry.

That's a lot easier than trying to find a High Performance Early 'Wing for a TV Show!

Randakk's has those:

https://www.randakks.com/gl1000-rear-ca ... -seal.html

[rcmatt007]

I was really just looking for a recommendation for locating the square-edged O-ring that seals the 2 halves of the rear brake caliper when I came across the TV Show post. The rear caliper seal is no longer available from Honda. Somehow got off track..sorry.

Not a problem. I was thinking about your first post and remembered seeing those "burn out" things. Everyone cheers, walks away and the bike owner has to buy a new tire

[jtmillan]

Located the caliper seal per friendly post above: Caliper Halves Seal - Rear - GL1000 CB750F VF1000; SKU 100-1156; Price:
$9.99 Order is placed.

Many thanks to Randakk's for posting the location and supplying. Can now assemble the rear caliper after rebuild and not have to worry about reusing a 42 year old elastomer that saw sunshine for the first time when taken apart a couple weeks ago.

Previous orders of mine from Randakk's were for carb kits for my 1983 CB1100F and '82 CB 900F bikes. Somehow I wound up with multiple examples of both. Never considered a flate 4 (is the term "boxer" acceptable?). After looking through this site, and then others, as a result of coming here for the previous F-bike parts orders, I became haunted by images of the "naked" GL1000. My wife was correct when demanding "turn that pornography off and get ready for bed" while admonishing me for surfing for motorcycles on the internet all night, keeping her awake with screen glow. I was fortunate to locate a pristine 1977 GL1000 with 6,400 miles on the clock. Plus the privilege of shipping cost to get it here from Florida. As you folks would understand, it is a prized possession.

Thanks again

Jim in Houston

[desertrefugee]

Celebrity is not cheap ...or without risks!

Very true …. if that is what a person is looking for.

Yes there are lots of folks for whom celebrity or fame provides a sense of self actualization. Humans will go to great lengths in some cases to obtain it. Spend a few minutes on YouTube or watching reruns of jackass and it becomes pretty obvious. Then there are those who have no need for grandstanding. Secure in their skin. Nothing to prove.

Either way, Celebrity more often than not happens by accident.

[CYBORG]

I agree. REAL fame,( or recognition ), Just happens as a result of a persons normal activity

[jtmillan]

Perhaps we are achieving our own sense of celebrity just by keeping a few of these cool old bikes around. If being honest, I'd probably have to own up.

I moved back to the same neighborhood I grew up in as a kid during the 70's. I can remember like it was yesterday an incident while walking to high school as a freshman in the 9th grade, 1972. One morning a hord of seniors screamed by, all on 1st gen Honda 750's, half of them doing wheelies, heading to the same high school at the end of the block. There was at least a half dozen of them. Maybe 8, altogether. That was the coolest thing I'd ever seen at the time. The noise was deafening when they went by. I wanted one of those bikes so bad it kept me awake at night for years. To me at the time, those seniors were celebrities. The sight and sound of that episode played like a tape loop in my head. It's still there.

Guess I'm kind of reliving my past now, only this time I get to ride the cool bikes. My house now is around the adjoining corner from the same street referenced above, which precludes wheelies in the neighborhood lest I become disallowed and outcast by my own neighbors and homeowner's association. But once past the old high school down the street, and the last turn out of the neighborhood is complete, all bets are off. It's like I'm 18 all over again. The GL1000 will not be doing any wheelies - cool as it is in it's own rite, but the 1100F and 900F bikes are a different kettle of fish. Along with a stable of more modern examples of the same species.

The more it changes, the more it stays the same. There is celebrity in cool old motorcycles. Or just cool motorcycles?

Jim in Houston