Author Topic: Hondaman on TV?! (Read 3460 times)

HondaMan · « **on:** July 16, 2009, 04:55:33 PM »

I went to the DMV with my barely-legally-assembled Hondaman Special #1 today to get it registered and plated. Last year, this was about $40-$60 in fees. This year, it is $190+ because of our illustrious (lackluster?) governor.

Well, it turned out that Channel 9 News was there, because they are covering how police officers are having to be posted inside the DMV offices because of people's reactions. And, they decided to interview me!

...then the interviewer asked me what made this particular bike so special that I would want to resurrect it from the dead...I wonder if that part will end up on the cutting room floor, but it was fun!

GammaFlat · « **Reply #1 on:** July 16, 2009, 05:10:35 PM »

Please make sure to get it on VHS or digital format so we may all enjoy the interview (if it airs).

HondaMan the movie star!

clarkjh · « **Reply #2 on:** July 16, 2009, 05:49:32 PM »

Tell them you want the "Uncut" version to share with the rest of us SOHC4 nuts.

James

Sam Green Racing · « **Reply #3 on:** July 16, 2009, 05:56:19 PM »

Quote from: GammaFlat on July 16, 2009, 05:10:35 PM

HondaMan the movie star!

Welcome to the club Mark.

Sam.

HavocTurbo · « **Reply #4 on:** July 16, 2009, 06:10:52 PM »

^^^^^^

Yea this little bastard gets to race cars all year long on a closed course.

Go Sti---- Sam go!!

Sam Green Racing · « **Reply #5 on:** July 16, 2009, 06:19:56 PM »

Oh yeh

that as well

I forgot about my other role

I'll dig one of my apearances out and get Benny to post it.

Sam.

Jerry Rxman Griffin aka MuthaF'er · « **Reply #6 on:** July 16, 2009, 07:46:09 PM »

Wish we could get the Denver stations in the Springs.

Should it be Hollywoodman or Hondaman now?

Too bad Gov Ritter couldn't raise the gasoline tax instead and let everyone that uses our roads pay for them in the amount they use them rather than just a flat rate only for the citizens of Colorado, huh?! Wasn't that due to TABOR (Taxpayer Bill of Rights)?

mystic_1 · « **Reply #7 on:** July 16, 2009, 08:06:22 PM »

Wait, you registered HMS#1 today?! Where's the pics of THAT?

Congrats on your 15 seconds

mystic_1

72 yellow · « **Reply #8 on:** July 17, 2009, 06:36:34 AM »

Autographed pics available

??

Gordon · « **Reply #9 on:** July 17, 2009, 06:45:11 AM »

Saw you on the news last night! That was pretty long for a "man on the street" type interview. I bet the reporter was overjoyed to have found someone who was not only intelligent but articulate as well, and actually knew something about the subject at hand.

You and the HMS1 were looking good!

I recorded the news broadcast on the DVR, so I'll see if I can at least get a decent video recording of it playing on the TV and post it here. That will have to wait until this evening, though.

FunJimmy · « **Reply #10 on:** July 17, 2009, 07:37:12 AM »

Wow, another celebrity in our midst.
Hopfully your prized interview didn't raise the going market price for these gems.

Can't wait to see the final cut.

Cheers
Jimmy

Duke McDukiedook · « **Reply #11 on:** July 17, 2009, 07:44:13 AM »

Wow, a bonafide star on our little forum.

Be sure to post the video somewhere on here and let us know about it.

HondaMan · « **Reply #12 on:** July 17, 2009, 08:34:10 AM »

Quote from: Gordon on July 17, 2009, 06:45:11 AM

Saw you on the news last night! That was pretty long for a "man on the street" type interview. I bet the reporter was overjoyed to have found someone who was not only intelligent but articulate as well, and actually knew something about the subject at hand.

You and the HMS1 were looking good!

I recorded the news broadcast on the DVR, so I'll see if I can at least get a decent video recording of it playing on the TV and post it here. That will have to wait until this evening, though.

Thanks, Gordon!
I don't have any recorders other than a conventional VHS tape. My wife recorded it so I could watch it: they actually named me on it! That was strange...now, I'm 1/2 of Rich & Famous (the wrong half... $:-\$ )

If you have the capability, please do post it for those who wish to see it: I wish I'd had the rest of the cosmetic parts on the bike when I went. It was sans airbox and side covers, no tank stripes or emblems, yet (did those last night!). It sports a DonDirtBiker Candy Gold, pretty in the sun! I was just trying to get to the DMV before they closed.

The SOHC4 was actually named on TV, how cool!

The whole deal was over the outrageous fees that Colorado implemented this month: the State has posted cops in the DMV offices because people are going ballistic over it all. It goes like this:

Prior to this year, it would have cost $12 Registration + $10 misc. fees + $3 Title Fee + $18 Sales Tax + $20 VIN Inspect = $63 to retitle this bike (not including the International Title Services fee of $85 to get it started).

Starting July 1:
Expired plate: $ 100 penalty
Registration: $ 12
New "Road Fee" $ 41
VIN Inspection $ 20
Sales taxes: $ 18+ (original bike was $200, in pieces)
Title Fee: $ 3
Total: $ 194+
(plus the International Title Service Fee of $85).

It appears to me, the government is trying to force everyone into new vehicles and stop the resurrection of older ones back onto the road. As for me and my rides, it will be old ones forever: the license fees on a new $12,000 bike in Colorado cost more than all 3 of my cars' purchase prices, plus my CB750K2, added together!

Kevin D · « **Reply #13 on:** July 17, 2009, 01:16:28 PM »

Cutting room floor?

No way. A star is born.

Security increased at some DMV offices as tempers flare:

http://www.9news.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=119559&catid=222

Yep, you could have used that $40 for tank badges.

Dang, even a shot with you riding the CB. You touched all the bases HondaMan.

FunJimmy · « **Reply #14 on:** July 17, 2009, 01:43:41 PM »

Great feature Mark.

Cheers
FJ

bucky katt · « **Reply #15 on:** July 17, 2009, 01:46:24 PM »

hey Hondaman! wheres your proctective gear?....just kidding, thats a beautiful 750 there.

noahspop · « **Reply #16 on:** July 17, 2009, 02:19:10 PM »

hey hondaman.
that was a great piece they did.
if you lived here in ca. (fee's also doubled) the media would of made you out to be the bad guy.
well done.

Jerry Rxman Griffin aka MuthaF'er · « **Reply #17 on:** July 17, 2009, 02:41:18 PM »

Looking forward to seeing the bike.

GammaFlat · « **Reply #18 on:** July 17, 2009, 02:49:00 PM »

It's great to see our own (people and bikes) in the news. Nice job Mark.

mystic_1 · « **Reply #19 on:** July 17, 2009, 03:31:39 PM »

Excellent piece. Bike looks great for something that was just brought "back from the dead".

Well done.

mystic_1

Ecosse · « **Reply #20 on:** July 17, 2009, 06:05:21 PM »

that's outstanding h man! please get a copy and post or get it on you tube! and kudos for giving sohc/4 ""props" too. anyone know what that means?

"now, I'm 1/2 of Rich & Famous (the wrong half...)"

as for hms#1, somehow i missed the latest with that project. good to hear it didn't die.

HondaMan · « **Reply #21 on:** July 17, 2009, 08:50:33 PM »

I'm almost done with HMS#1, just have to install the new owner's desired front tire and the new airbox velocity stacks (when they get here), then all done! I'll make some pix of it for here, and my scrapbook.

Already starting on HMS#2, got most of #3 in pieces. Of course, now I have to budget an extra $285 for retitling one....

HMS#2 might become a cafe'. I need some Dunstall-like pipes for that one.

#3 will be another stocker, but I aim to do a batch of rechrome on the next 2 bikes, for better quality cosmtics all around.

I'm going to ask Channel 9 for the whole interview (about 9 minutes, I think). Maybe they can give it to me in digital format(?).

(It all kinda depends on the prospective new owners.)

flankspeed · « **Reply #22 on:** July 17, 2009, 09:21:29 PM »

Mark,

If you get the whole tape from channel 9 send it my way and I can digitize it and do whatever you want with it...Perks of editing video for a living...and it's the least I can do since my (soon to be) bike was featured!

seaweb11 · « **Reply #23 on:** July 17, 2009, 10:21:10 PM »

Great little piece, I think they did the SOHC proud.

On a more serious note: You have such a low tax base to start with, where do you think this money for infrastructure will come from? From what I hear the US debt is owned offseas.......

Oops....thread jack....by bad.

P.S.
Nice to see an articulate interview on US TV

FunJimmy · « **Reply #24 on:** July 17, 2009, 10:37:59 PM »

Gee Derek, could you be a bit more subtle?

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Author Topic: Hondaman on TV?! (Read 3460 times)