User Reviews

Ignore the 1 out of 10, I accidentally clicked on it and I can't work out how to take it back. This is so far beyond awful that there isn't a suitable adjective to describe it that can be uttered in polite company. I just saw the third episode of this show. Not the third episode I've seen, thank God, just the third episode of season 1. If I ever watch another episode of this it will only be because I've been kidnapped by Francis Dolarhyde and he's developing a new torture technique. Firstly, the host is not only the most annoying man on television, he's possibly the most annoying person in the history of people. The episode in question involved a "Hardcore Build" on a Hayabusa, a Hayabusa which had already been ministered to by the shop in question, going by the terrible stretched (and branded with the shop logo) swingarm it was sporting (why do these things even exist?) but apparently it needed even more fixin'. A 10 day deadline was established. Why? No reason was given, just, for some reason, that it had to be done in 10 days. What then followed was the most contrived and painful to watch television I've ever seen. My previous low bar was Jesse James is a Dead Man but this limboed under that horror show with ease. As each of his specialist buddies turned up with goodies (a stretched single sided swingarm, an ugly exhaust etc.) they then hung around to assist in the build. So short was the deadline that he apparently needed the help of these experts who were so good at what they do that they had nothing better to do with their time for 10 days. After their paint guy showed up and the bodywork disappeared, it was hammer and tongs into the build. The deadline must have been even tighter than they made out because, over the course of the 10 day build (where between 3 and 5 people did what appeared to amount to little more than about 8 man-hours of work), they all wore the same clothes. The clothes they were wearing when the build was complete, 10 days later (allegedly), were the exact same clothes they were wearing at the start of the episode. It wasn't as if one of them was an Albert Einstein fan and wore the same outfit everyday, they all did. This was particularly easy to tell because they were all wearing distinctive and very individual T-Shirts. After a gruelling build (it was gruelling to watch anyway) the paint guru came back with their bodywork. There was much oohing and ahhing about how spectacular the paintjob was, before they then set about trimming part of it away to clear the exhaust. Why they never did this at the start is yet another mystery that I'm not interested in getting to the bottom of. The bike was eventually completed and they all went for a ride (Huzzah) which was just an excuse for 3 minutes of artsy slow motion footage of motorcycles riding along a highway, a couple of burnouts, and then a lot or crapping on about how awesome the bike was. How this show ever made it past the pilot I'll never know.

I watched the 5thgen Camaro build. If you eliminate all the unnecessary slo-mo sequences, the "Ooing and Ahing" when a new part arrives, and the ridiculous commentary by Ankin, the show would be 10min long. But in that 10min they only manage to slap a few bolt on parts in order to completely miss their self imposed target horsepower goal. All the while chest bumping each other while shouting "Big Block!"... in reference to the 6.0l SBC engine in the Camaro.

Ankin has little talent beyond miming small boxes when he speaks, and his crew has little talent beyond booty smooching everything Ankin does.

Save yourself the mental anguish and pass on this series.