Your most uncomfortable bikes

[mossy1200]

The most uncomfortable bike for long distance for me was honda blackbird. Two days into 2 week trip my back was dead and I could barely walk. I think im more suited to weight on arms a bit more and now I trip with back brace and belt on.

[breakaway]

Most uncomfortable bike I ever owned was the 1997 ZX7R. Very cool bike, feels very stable on the road but riding position is far too aggressive.

[SMOKEU]

I suppose this is my most uncomfortable.

What is it?

[ducatilover]

What is it?

'91 ZX6 in not so standard condition, it's the one in my sig. Changes colour a lot too.

[clonak]

RGV150 up h/w 16. Fun for a novice, but very painfull for someone nearly 1.9m tall. The GZ wasnt much better up to Urititi, the worst part was riding home after sleeping on uneven ground. Really need to get a bigger bike more suited to my size. Really need to get onto my full too.

[tri boy]

In the 80's i sent the apprentice out on an NH80 Honda scoot, to double a rather large, (read 130kg+)woman back to the workshop, whose own bike had shit itself about 35km away.
We, the whole bike shop saw him at the intersection across the road, prior to entering the establishment.
Imagine a monkey piggybacking a hippo.
Fook it was funny.
He wasn't very happy.

[BMWST?]

Ductai 900S2 from Queenstown to Wellington in one day...i was bloody sore by the time i got to Picton.



the seat was hard.the reach to the bars was long,the suspension was rock hard...i set one of my fastest times ever betweeen Kaikoura and Blenheim though

[Muppet]

I sat on the Aprlilla V4 Tuono at Emoto recently, seat is like a plank of wood!

[ducatilover]

I sat on the Aprlilla V4 Tuono at Emoto recently, seat is like a plank of wood!

Sounds like sitting on a solid fibreglass tail.
I've managed 150km in one run on the bike with no seat foam, not really and issue. But I'm young, suave and virile.

[DMNTD:Me]

My old KTM Superduke-R...I actually traded it in after riding Tauranga-Wellington-Tauranga

[martybabe]

XV535, picked it up brand new in London and rode it to Birmingham. After 20 miles my bum had gone numb, 20 more my feet and legs were in agony and every tiny bump the back end went over shot splinters of pain up my spine.

An agonising first ride but I have to say it was fun to ride on short blats on smooth roads, great little engine but the ergos were chronic for me,

[Muppet]

Sounds like sitting on a solid fibreglass tail.
I've managed 150km in one run on the bike with no seat foam, not really and issue. But I'm young, suave and virile.

Ha ha! I'm old and bony. Funny thing was the fabric on the seat of the Tuono looked stretched like a drum, I even tapped it with my finger since I thought the seat was solid. Apart from that (and the price) it's a nice bike.

[Gixxer peter]

Try the tt2000 on a C50 stepthrough, the left hand side footpeg broke off 6 hours into the ride, so I had to try many different seating arrangement, each one a little less comfatable than the last.

[MrKiwi]

So who here has done a journey that was physically uncomfortable, and what size rider/bike?

I'll go first, 84 VT250F2, 1.8m rider, 100km between stretch stops. Was it worth the fun to be had on such a nimble bike through the twisties at the end of it, hell yes! Glad to be on a bigger (though not by much) bike now though.

my first bike - Yamaha XS 250, unaffectionately known as the slug. I'm 6 foot. Bike was way too small for me but I put up with it for six months commuting and doing a number of longer trips between Palmerston North where I was at university and Tauranga which was home at the time.

[Stylo]

Hayabusa Gen 2. Took a quick trip from Nelson to Ch Ch recently via Murchison and the Lewis Pass , the high pegs and the forward stretch to the bars had my legs crying out and my wrists started to get a little sore too, after about 90 min. The seat is actually very comfortable, in spite of it being hard and minimalistic looking when you first plant your butt down.

The big motor always makes up for it though , Holy smoke