I have for the most part liked the Twist the Throttle series simply because I love motorcycles. I have been riding for 42 years. I thought "finally, a show about motorcycles by people who actually know something about motorcycles." I can accept poor writing and grammar as well as shots being repeated over and over if the information is good. However, while watching the Suzuki show I could not believe the glaring error on the GS 750, a bike I owned when it was new. While the narrator yattered on about how revolutionary this new in-line four cyclinder, four stroke, air cooled bike was, we were seeing lots of glossy video (looked like archival film) of a mid 70s GT 750 water cooled two stroke. The bikes share nothing in common other than two wheels and the name Suzuki and the moniker 750. It made me wonder how many of the other shows I had seen had incorrect information or pictures. Of course lots of talk about the 4 stroke GSXR 750 on the race track was covered by pictures of Kevin Schwantz riding at Daytona but the rest on the GP two stroke bike as if they were the same but what the hell at this point? How can such errors get though post? Is there nobody at Twist the Throttle that knows anything about motorbikes? So many programs like this seem to be more like infomercials than good documentary work. Sorry to rant, but I want good journalism...still waiting.
I also noticed this error, also in the Kaw. program "the most important kawasaki" the 900 ninja was an 84 not an 81. I looked at the orig. shows on the web site and see the problems are in the 2nd narration.
Yeah, I first saw the Suzuki show last night and was wondering if anyone noticed. A Water Buffalo doesn't look anything like a GS750. No cylinder fins and a radiator. Overall I really like the series. Nice to see inside the factories. I was surprised they didn't talk about the GS1000/GS1100/GS1150 bikes that ruled the streets in the late '70's and early 80's. I owned both a GS1000 and GS1100 chain drives and they were both basically perfect motorcycles. I was born the same year Suzuki made it's first motor powered bike, 1952, and my Kawasaki ZX14 is my 60th motorcycle.
I just saw the episode for the the first time this morning and, as the proud owner of a one-owner 1972 MT50 Trailhopper, I was shocked at the oohing and aahing about the GS750 with the Water Buffalo on the screen. As if that weren't glaring enough, did anyone else notice that the narrator can't pronounce "dy na mom e ter"? He said "dy na nom e ter"! How weak...