Neglect? Mine's a 2005 and has been parked outdoors all its life, ridden almost daily through every winter (and summer and spring and autumn) since purchase and is rarely washed and has no frame rusting like that
So do tell how any 'neglect' has caused that ?
Same as mine which lives outside and gets roundly abused although I do use WD40/FS365 etc regularly and power wash as and when i remember. She's a bit tatty on the rear subframe and front engine case (mainly due to the nasty shite they put on the Dalton Highway which rots everything) but good everywhere else.
From the look of those pics, it's very badly gone but I would hazard a guess that it rarely gets a bucket of water or has any protection whatsoever. The exhausts are covered in burnt on road grime and everywhere on the bike looks completely unwashed. Saying that, a couple of weekends with some decent truckwash (gets rid of road grime like nothing else), wet and dry, solvol and hammerite would have that thing looking a load better.


