terry,chime in here fella defend yourself
Well it happened to me again today, one of the guys at work was so excited that he'd found me a Honda CB750 at the local metal recyclers, and I could buy it for scrap value! Woohoo!
I drove my little truck over there right away hoping that the frame was straight so I could use it for my (eventual) K9 project,(F2 engine in a K1-K6 frame etc) or if the bike was good enough, add it to my CB750 collection.
Anyway, you can imagine my disgust when I finally arrived to find that it was a K8! Bloody hell, the guys there were obviously embarrassed too for not letting my guy know what it was, and even tried to give it to me for free!
Apparently it'd been there for awhile, and some other guys had come out, seen what it was, and declined to take it with them too, so they were getting desperate to unload the horrible thing, apparently they were concerned that it'd lower their land value? I asked them what would happen to it if I didn't take it and they said they'd just crush it and it'd go to another plant to be melted down.
I eventually took the front wheel (near new tire) and the battery, but couldn't see anything else of any real value, so as I left they were firing up the "Gas Axe", to put it out of it's misery. I must say it did seem to run well, (it was a "one owner" bike with only 14000 Kms on the clock) but that fat tank and "potty chair" seat just put me off completely?
Oh well, in my personal quest to make the world a more beautiful place, one less fat slug of a K8 in the world is always a good thing, I thought to myself as I drove away, whistling to myself............... Cheers, Terry.
