Ha! That's funny. I had actually trekked up to where he was stopped with another (higher capacity) battery but he was gone when I got there.
He was in such a rush to get on the road and "beat the rain" (it was already raining at my house before he left) that I didn't have time to explain to him all the nuances of old Hondas.
Blair, when I got this bike I had dreams of running a MicroSquirt (mini EFI setup) on it, but discovered the generator was too weak to run the computer and there is no way to cram a better generator in the engine case so I dropped that idea.