Topic: Most restored motorcycle and number of survivors

[kyle750]

This just showed up for sale in my local facebook group.  Here is the description:

Honda S 100. Exterior colour: Gold.  Price 2500 baht. Let’s take it. Mother’s bike. I can’t find the book. The bike is in Bangkok.

[Stev-o]

This just showed up for sale in my local facebook group.  Here is the description:

Honda S 100. Exterior colour: Gold.  Price 2500 baht. Let’s take it. Mother’s bike. I can’t find the book. The bike is in Bangkok.

They for got the classic line:   "Ran when parked"!

[MauiK3]

Always sad to see one that way.

[jakec]

I had multiple people from Thailand try to buy my chopper when I had it for sale. I didn't know they could afford american prices. I do see a lot of honda choppers over there, on instagram. 750s less often than the smaller, new single cylinder engines

[Magpie]

Since motorcycles seem to be disposable, many are parked and simply ignored or forgotten. And, some are abandoned projects. This is how my K3 came home. After much love it's now a rider.

[willbird]

Since motorcycles seem to be disposable, many are parked and simply ignored or forgotten. And, some are abandoned projects. This is how my K3 came home. After much love it's now a rider.

Yea reading this thread I have pondered about how many are truly lost and gone forever, and how may are just sitting somewhere apart or together. When cars are scrapped a lot of wrecking yards need a title, but some would and maybe some still will take an intact car with no title. Whether those "no title" VIN's ever get recorded as that I do not know, whether it even HAD a title is subject to state laws...sounds like some states do not even use vehicle titles ??

Bill

[HondaMan]

Since motorcycles seem to be disposable, many are parked and simply ignored or forgotten. And, some are abandoned projects. This is how my K3 came home. After much love it's now a rider.

I just had to jump in and admire your grit, Magpie! That was how the "title" bike was renewed in my book! I did have the advantage, though, on yours: mine had the front wheel in the forks and on the frame, with the engine in the frame, too. Nothing turned (not even the front wheel) so it was a...task...to get it home. When I got it off the truck I was so tired that I just went and got my camera and took the picture of it that is on the cover. It sat there 2 days in front of my house, but no one came and stole it. I never figured out 'why', except maybe because it was a whole week of below-zero temperatures?

Or maybe thieves are just lazy...?

[Laids]

The first pics are an abandoned KO , the oil cap was left off, don’t think I had ever seen a oil tank rust from the bottom before. Did salvage a few parts then passed the frame and engine on. Needless to say the engine was very stuck.
The other pic is from Mid Ohio, 2019, this is one trailer load of CB 750s and a few others going back to Japan I think.

[kyle750]

I would love to see photos of the completed bike.  I am currently piling up parts that are arriving from all over the world  in very similar looking large plastic storage bins that are haphazardly strewn across the floor. You are VERY organized!

I am quickly discovering that used parts are readily available from old, parted out Honda CB750s but condition, quality, and the price of parts varies greatly. 

I could sure use that gas tank trim from the 1st photo of the bike "buried in the woods" 

[kyle750]

I didn't know they could afford american prices.

IMO American prices for complete Honda CB750s and parts are very affordable and widely available.  Honda CB owners living in the USA are very fortunate!