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"I was just riding along..."
Seems to me the wheels bent up pretty good, the forks may be bent/twisted a little (they look waaaaay better than I'd expect. There's minimal "body damage"; so, the "straight into a wall" crash seems likely. The frame failed right where you'd expect it to...Behind all the welds/major gussets and in-front of the "engine mounting areas". It would be interesting to look inside that tubing...
I'd say it's one helluva test!
The Shop
That bike was caught between an unforgiving wall and a truck. The truck and it's unencumbered inertia resulted in the Honda frame breaking at it's weakest point. The extruded aluminum tube has a nice clean break and the only thing that would cause that kind of damage (along with all the spokes breaking) is being smashed with thousands of tons of force, not a high speed impact into a wall. If anything, the latter would break the triple clamps. So I'm going with a truck driver backed his rig into and an ill-placed brand new motorcycle and crushed it like an aluminum can.
Or maybe it was strength tested.
Or maybe aliens dropped it from a UFO.
I also am saying this because there is not a serial number on this bike on the normal spot where everyone of my CRF's have theirs at on upper top of the frame by the gas tank. A production bike would have one, This does not so my guess is that its at some plant some where if I was a betting man.
After we would finish with our weld destruction testing on production snowmobiles back in the day, Arctic Cat would scrap all of the sleds when we were done and they just needed to save serial numbers for accounting reasons. So they would cut the complete sled in half on a giant band saw and store every thing in a giant salvage yard. Then once a year we would be able to buy the front and rear halves of the sleds out of the salvage yard and what ever else we could find. You should have seen the looks on peoples faces going down the road when they see a half of a sled on a trailer...... It's pretty funny!!!!
So like I said, my guess is something like that is going on here if I had to guess.
Pit Row
I don't think it would have been caused by someone running the bike into the wall. It was more than likely caused by a heavy vehicle causing brute force to cause the frame to snap like that.
There also isn't other visible scrapes on the plastic to appear the bike was moving when the damage occurred.
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