Another sad, neglected CL bike in CT

[brider]

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https://newhaven.craigslist.org/mcy/d/naugatuck-1972-honda-cb500-four-project/7003188927.html

I'll bet that poor thing spent those 20 yrs in that shed in the 1st photo. Zoom in and look closely at the engine with the animal's nest on the cases.

Engine won't kick over? Ya think? It's so close to me, I have a perverse desire to go look at it. As if anyone would hand over hard currency, of any amount.

[Lannis]

Here's the deal, though.

There's people that are into those early Honda Fours just like we have people here into Loopframes.

If that were a V700 or an Ambo, there are people right here right now that would gather up some cash and pull a trailer up there and have a go at the seller, and that would be considered normal.

In the Honda Four world, there are people just like that, with banks of spare Keihin carbs hanging in the shop, and everything that they need to get that engine apart, rebuilt, and back running like new again ...

Lannis

[Huzo]

At least he had the decency to keep the poor bugger in a shed.
Not like the old Fence Post Rebuild of a couple of years back. I hate it when you see something left outside under a tree, when the 20’ x 10’ shed alongside has a motor mower and a discarded couch in it..!
Certainly worth picking up here in Oz...$$$$

[brider]

Not like the old Fence Post Rebuild of a couple of years back. I hate it when you see something left outside under a tree, when the 20’ x 10’ shed alongside has a motor mower and a

Interesting point about the fencepost V7 Sport. I guess the difference in my mind is the nice, (relatively) dry climate the fencepost Guzzi languished in, vs the wet, moldy, corrosive environment this one lived in. They're all neglected, and they don't care, they're just machines. This Honda evokes a horror-story-Blair-Witch-Project evilness of neglect that I find fascinating and repulsive.

But Lannis is right, too! Thanks for putting it in perspective!

But then, why hasn't anyone snagged that complete EV on LI that is a Sandy flood victim for the $600 asking? Doesn't have the panache' of an old Honda four, or a Loop, I suppose.....

[JJ]

Here is another sad story...

Poor, neglected motorcycle of the day...I have been driving by this Honda in our neighborhood for >3 years now...and it has not moved...Not For Sale...just sitting out in the elements!!

Worst of all, is the condition of the seat! Why do people let their motorcycles get like this?!? There should be a law against this!! (lol) Terrible!!😱😕😉

[Lannis]

Here is another sad story...

Poor, neglected motorcycle of the day...I have been driving by this Honda in our neighborhood for >3 years now...and it has not moved...Not For Sale...just sitting out in the elements!!

Worst of all, is the condition of the seat! Why do people let their motorcycles get like this?!? There should be a law against this!! (lol) Terrible!!😱😕😉

With that bike, probably some story like the owner is in prison ....

[brider]

.I have been driving by this Honda in our neighborhood for >3 years now...and it has not moved...Not For Sale...just sitting out in the elements!!

Sheesh, had the concern to put a board under the sidestand but nothing over the seat.

I started an interesting thread here a year or so ago, about my neighbor across the street who has his Alfa Romeo convertible out in the weather, with windows rolled down, no cover, and NOT FOR SALE for YEARS, like your neighbor's Honda. Sparked all kinds of similar tales from these readers, I guess it's a real tendency by some people. Whatever it is, it ain't right.

[Moparnut72]

There is a guy who lives a few blocks from me. He  had a Honda CBX just off the street which was laying on its side half of it covered with gravel. I always thought what a shame every time I rode/drove by it. It was there like that for a few years. Then one day it was gone.
kk

[oldbike54]

 They are just a machine , they feel no pain , cold , hot , they can't feel anything . At some point any man made thing just becomes a pile of parts , the Honda CBR appears to have been crashed , and who knows if the motor is still good .

 Dusty

[Kiwi_Roy]

I saw a fairly late model Harley under a clear plastic sheet, I used to ride past it quite often until one day I couldn't stand it any longer so I went in and looked at it, just a mass of corrosion.
I knocked on the door and suggested he should take it out from under clear plastic and use a proper cover.
He threatened to punch me out LOL

[Huzo]

I think the front forks are bent..

[Lannis]

Sheesh, had the concern to put a board under the sidestand but nothing over the seat.

I started an interesting thread here a year or so ago, about my neighbor across the street who has his Alfa Romeo convertible out in the weather, with windows rolled down, no cover, and NOT FOR SALE for YEARS, like your neighbor's Honda. Sparked all kinds of similar tales from these readers, I guess it's a real tendency by some people. Whatever it is, it ain't right.

I've had a similar experience (which I've told many times so I won't go into details) involving a 1940 Ford convertible and the owner who used it for 25 years to lure people into his yard so he could tell them HELL NO!   Until he died and it was just scrap.

We say sometimes "it's just a machine, just metal, just a material thing, get over it ..."   But suppose someone had a lovely original Falcone, and (just to be doing it) posted a youtube video of him smashing it to bits with a sledgehammer and setting the remains on fire.

Would ANY of us just be like "Meh, who cares?"   I know I wouldn't and I think anyone who said he was would be shading the truth a bit ...

Lannis

[tazio]

My son, Joey, found this behind a mobile home with a dog chained to it.
Took it home and completely restored it.
He saw something in it most wouldn't be able to imagine (myself included).
So now another special bike is back on the road!
ZX7R









Thankfully someone, somewhere, wants to keep junk going!
He's now restoring my old '66 Bonneville...