I Bought a Brand New 40 year Honda Motorcycle 

You were probably like “the handle bar clamps are on the forks!” when they were trying to find it

OG

I was 15 years earlier assembling Yamaha, BSA and Hodakas. We also put together Harleys. But where the other machines had been tested in the factory the Harleys were completely unadjusted and it was a devil of a time getting them to fire up initially.

Honda c50 or c70 round lamp.. now the price market was like 100 times than before .where can I find that?

Didn't they ship dry?

I'm thinking the same thing. Here in Ontario Canada I KNOW the bike dealers always had left over stock. Saw them stacked up at the two local shops I used to frequent. They still have listed 2 years previous models. The thing is? They always wanted all the money for 2 yr old bikes. Why would I pay $4500 for a 2yr old bike when a brand new current year was $4600?

Was it up on the self with a zx10 I think? I offered 15 and nope.

A dealer friend of mine bought 10 brand new 06 banshees still in the crate a few years ago from a dealer in Wisconsin that went out of business , best part was he was selling them still with the factory warranty

My dad works at a dump Honda usually just dumps the bikes and destroys them there

Yes omg they should have a website just for these! I would love a brand new older bike

Gaped

Love how the guys are so reverent. My husband had one, nostalgic.

@@michelleobamasthicccocc822 How'd you know!

im a brit ride a vtr firestorm still rapid fer a 22 year old bike dont like going slow paid a grand 32 thou om clock eaz better than the ducati it waz copying

@@gruffrossi5420 really? I got to ride a vtr once back in the day. Awesome bike. Would love to scrounge one up again. Or maybe a Suzuki TL...

Nice, I often fancy buying an old new model, a Honda cg125 , I bought new in 2002, stupidly sold it, now they do little similar, they tend to hype new ones up with plastic and over price them

Well, classics often become collectibles because of rarity, then they will be become sought after..

Surprised that they hit the floor at all

@@rocketguy748 Brother CG125 still is offered in Pakistan Brand New

@@jimmymac4559 right they'd hit the back of my Trucks

Had one, (1982 Honda CB450 and a 1984 Yamaha 400 Seca 8Z. Both were great bikes. I wish I still had that 450. It's a collector in good condition.

I had the CB360 Honda 1978...👍

@@jamesbarry6979 me too, i was poor 18 year old kid and that damn thing got great gas mileage!!!

Wow! I had a CB360T going through High School and then bought a 1982 CB450 “Nighthawk” after joining the Navy and being stationed out in CA. A few years later (1986, I believe), the Honda dealership was practically giving away a “NOS” 1982 CB900F! I think I could have picked it up for around $1,300!

My dad had a smaller displacement version of this bike which looked very similar. I live in the US now and I'm 28 but I grew up in a country in South Asia called Bangladesh. He was a police officer and he used to ride it everyday going to and coming home from the police station. I have some vivid memories of how the bike looked , sounded and how the guage cluster lit up. As I was watching the video without knowing what bike it is and then all of a sudden seeing the gas tank, the classic wing Honda logo, the way the gauge cluster lit up, it just triggered a part of my brain that had been forgotten for 2 decades. It popped up so many old memories, nostalgia and emotions and made me feel like I went back in a time machine. I was obsessed with bikes and cars as a kid so I don't think most people wouldn't experience the same as me. This is the very first bike that I have memories of growing up. I had to mute the video so I could just look at it without all the talking. Just appreciate this piece of art Japan has given to the world and revolutionized the motorcycling industry especially in Asia. "Honda" in my country is a synonym for "motorcycle" and that particular bike is one of the very first to introduce us to the motorcycling culture.

Curious where did you go to off-road? I’ve been looking for a good spot on this side of the state

@Memer DreamerI hope this is sarcasm.

@Memer Dreamer I mean 20 hp is still 20 hp. But I think not calling it a real bike is little ignorant

@Memer Dreamer According to some info I found about this bike it says the FT500 is supposedly rated for 33hp at 6500rpm. My fathers' 1980 Honda CX500 was rated for 45-50hp when the model came to the market in 1978. Not the most powerful things on two wheels but by no means as weak as you think. Of course they are also two totally different styles of bike. :)

@Memer Dreamer those exact bikes are still raced today! Look it up. The FT stood for Flat Track. And the Ascot was named after Ascot Park raceway. I believe its in California. I had one of those bikes. It handled corners like it was on rails, with wider tires of course. I wish I still had that old thumper! Kick my own ass almost daily for selling it. My buddy had one and he says the same thing. Don't knock those thumpers till you try one. They're a blast!

Same in Scotland where the Honda CX500B were normally on sale at £1,100 before reductions in England had me travel 150 miles to Newcastle to pick one up, brand new for £750. Brilliant solid bikes and well up for courier punishment!

Yup, mine was an '82 V-45 Magna that I bought brand new in the Winter of 1983 as a leftover with some extras thrown in for $1500. I had a lot of fun with that bike...

Had a 1985 Honda 450 Nighthawk.

@@dalegillett8171 I remember the Nighthawk television commercials. Do you remember what you paid for it?

Yes

Ha glorious!

lol that would be hillarious!

Empty crate……

This is what this idiot should have done....good job destroying history. There is a time when any product passes from its designed purpose and moves to artifact. The putz with the bike ruined an artifact.

The only problem I had with mine was the starter failing. I think this was fairly common on them.

Why do they need it? Sound like cops

Ohhhhhhh dang that’s crazy

I bought a left over in 1984 in the crate for $1000. see the story above.

You meant there are still boxed bikes sitting around? :-)

When my friend helped me retrieve my fathers 1980 CX500 from my fathers small out building the first thing he did after checking the oil was remove the carbs, sprayed some 2-stroke mix into the intakes and bumped it over with a portable jumper pack and it fired right up. The bike was sitting since 2004 which is when my step-sister was born. I'll be buying the bike off my father eventually but he hasn't given me a price yet. He wants me to get it running first before worrying about any money. It's in decent shape but it is going to need some new tires and some new carbs. The stock carbs are seized with corrosion so they're not worth saving.

Most any new machine new in a box etc would fire up bro. With fresh fluids/new battery etc. Calm dwn w/the Honda BS

@@Davido50 sounds like you know nothing about Honda.. stay salty

@@Davido50 had a Honda 4 wheeler that would start first crank on a below zero morning.. any other brand would take 10 minutes or longer to start and they would still act funny till it warmed up.. but not Honda.. keep hating but Honda guys know what I'm talking about.. most dependable no questions about it

My first bike was a black 83 FT500. SO MUCH FUN! Thumpers are just great, NGL.

I wanted one so bad in the day. Fast forward to 2022 I bought a Svartpilen 401 and I am satisfied but man that Ascot;

Friend of mine had the VT version. He put a wind screen and saddle bags and he used it to tour with. He rode it for 10+ years. He loved it.

Nope, not the only one. I LOVED this bike when it came out. It has it...simple, elegant, no doo dads and go gaws and air cooled beauty.

@@muskokamike127 Simple is right. I could swap the carb jets in about 10 minutes while I was tuning mine up.

That was my second bike, 72 XL 250. Probably still running somewhere.

Less egomaniacs but more hooligans.

Brakes are overrated.

@@calholli they really are, all they do is slow you down anyway... 🏍💨

Don't need brakes!

I know how this works out. I have a feeling you make a debut in the next episode??? Lol

Who needs breaks..

I took my test on a 93' XR250L, that's when I turned 18. By then, I was a very experienced rider (MX) Another person was taking the test on his dad's Harley. They looked down their noses at me like I was a loser. The guy ended up dropping the hog on it's side. Instant fail, I later saw them in the parking lot and he was crying (for real) getting yelled at by his dad. (Haha) During the stop test, I stopped before any of the graduated lines. The examiner had to get his supervisor because no one had ever stopped in such a short distance before. He didn't know how to score me. Yep, I remember it like it was yesterday. I have to look for a nice XR 650. I miss having a thumper...

@@TheBandit7613 I did my 1st DMV drive test for motorcycle in 1973 on a Honda CT70H, piece of cake! All that was required back then was that the bike used had to have a hand clutch, no displacement limits or any of that BS. I had a '03 XR650R watercooled (animal)thumper with rare CA street plates on it, made one heckuva motard bike with 17" wheels, billet hubs and 300mm front rotor! Went to a 16/39 sprocket gearing and bike would do an honest 110 mph, and get there pretty darn quick. Baja Designs light kit rounded out the package. Sold it 2 yrs. later for what I had in it, miss the bike as it was fun waxing sportbikes on tight roads!

@@MM_in_Havasu I eventually moved to an XR650. Living in the foothills of Colorado, that XR was a part of me. I spent most nice weekends exploring Colorado. I'd find old ghost towns. Still pretty complete. I never has the liquid cooled version but I can imagine how much torque that thing has. I'd still like to find an unmolested one. My XR would whoop Harleys like nothing. A biker wanted to beat me up once because my XR embarrassed his odd-firing antique.

Question for you: why did Honda ship the bikes with brake fluid already added? I though all bikes left factory fully dry

Japan built thing like America did before 'Murica existed bro

I'm not a big harley fan but the simplicity of their design might actually be a benefit in a case like this. Less to go wrong. Or maybe I'm way off lol.

It's actually opposite. Harleys are overly complicated, 3 oils to change, pushrods outside the engine, tons of extra seals etc.

I’m amazed at the lack of knowledge from people that watch Sean’s videos. Ignorance is not bliss. Just hateful.

@@codycummings6054 True, they are a pain to work in a lot of ways. But on the other hand, hand, have you ever done a valve adjustment on a Honda v4 bike? Not fun. Or adjust/balance the 4 carbs on some metric bikes.

Didn't they ship without fluids?

Always the least paid position at a stealership. Have a kid do it for free? Brilliant.

That's not building but assembling.

And I love Mario bros

I also owned an Ascot also the SR500 thumper from Yamaha.

Yeah I realized that I was wrong about it being a twin

Sorry, but if you want to purchase a motorcycle, please don't mention wheelie. LOL

@@JerryWasARaceCarDriver say wut?

Yep, had one new and it was the most fun I have ever had on a motorcycle. Nimble and still handled very well in its day. Yes, the White Bros. set was outstanding... but you couldn't keep the front wheel down.

I loved the shaft drive...dislikes were the front pressurized air forks

I'm saddened he's the one who got it. These nos bikes need to be gone through and replace every seal so it doesn't cause more damage then needed. And just adding an in line filter is not the proper way. There's a decent collectors market for these ascots I know I managed to pick up a low mileage one

the FT didn't have the radial head however it was a four valve head.

@@ryanmg02 I'm pretty sure they were replacing the seals at the end of the video. They aren't finished yet.

@@Squidgy55 they wanted to drive it home the put an in line filter instead of cleaning the tank.

I agree but the head was a 4 valve head with two exhaust ports and a compression release tied into the starting gears. It was basically the XL500 engine with electric start. You can even adapt the electric start to the XL500. The only real problem I've seen with those engines is oil seepage at the rocker box.

We called it the "SUPER MOPED" because it weighed so little but would tool along all day at 85mph

Yeah, the FT500 was a single. Many who had ridden the CB250RS were hoping that it would be an upturned RS. Unfortunately, it was nothing of the sort. The FT was hardly any faster than the RS. I think it only had about 6bhp more, but weighed a fair bit more, and had a much more upright riding position, along with skinny forks. It didn't even have much bottom end, and the engine really wasn't as frugal as it should have been. Honda would have done much better to use the XR500 engine and just tried to keep the weight down, but they didn't and the FT really didn't sell. BTW, those lumps weren't exactly the most reliable. They were known to burn oil and had the virtually typical cam chain and cam follower problems that affected so many Hondas of the time. I think the FT500 would be precisely the kind of bike that, when people talk about "The good old days" I think "They really weren't that good at all".

doubt its brake fluid, surely bike has no fluids at all in the crate. just alumin. oxide possibly.

Not brake fluid, metal corrosion powder

@@joebarber4030 Yeah, being new it never had fluid in it to begin with I would think. My mistake! Thanks!

I don't think that there was any brake fluid in the resovour. It is made of an aluminium alloy. And as such it corrodes with the air making it into aluminium oxide. Just dry corrosion.. so clean up and fill. Just oxydized alloy.