Some of the thing that you find at the dump convince you that some people should not be allowed to have motorcycles.
This morning while doing my fortnightly tip run, I spied what looked like a bike on the scrap metal pile.
A bit of rumaging and this is what I came home with, a rather battered and beaten YZ80 (from the mid 70's I think, prefix 589);
The sad bit is that the idiot who dumped it, took to it with what must have been a large sledge hammer before consigning it to the tip.
Along with the damage visible to the engine and forks in the pictures, the frame has a couple of major bends in it, both shocks have been bent and snapped and both wheels have also been damaged. I grabed it for the pricely sum of $20, because I alread have a very sad '82 model GT80 Yamaha and the engine looked like it is very similar. My GT80 has a broken gear selector in it and I might be able to savage that an a few other bit from the YZ. The truely sad bit is it looks like it was a complete, and probably going concern (the engine turns over) before being deliberatly trashed.
CJ