Stupid bikes you have owned

[cheshirecat]

and should have known better, knowing bought fully aware of friends advice and reviews.

Mine was a Honda 400F, gutless, most boring of all Honda's, only slightly alleviated by fitting Yoshimura cam, a decision even more reprehensible by selling a tricked out CB750.

[R650R]

Bought a dodgy RGV250K once that was well past its use by date, limp motor and soggy tired suspension. Too young and dumb to know how worn out it was.
End up selling it to a mate (like you do), after fucking gearbox with wrongly placed washer, broke internal cassete casting, $80 for new one not too bad a disaster...
Some sick fecker encouraged us to enter into the Two hour at Manfield (all you have to do is finish sonny, lots of bikes don't...) where we got blackflagged in qualifying for being too slow.
That was after being passed on the inside by the legend that Robert Holden was with the tyres of his 996 duke up on the ripple strip and spilling petrol in the pitlane with our two litre milk bottle funnel.
Ahhh those were the days where you were young and stupid in equal measure and having fun!

[AllanB]

The old 400F inline 4 with the sweeping headers? Or the yawn 80's twin cylinder?

[awa355]

I bought a new Gemini 125 back in 1973. Taiwanese, I think. Seized on the way home after about 6 k's.

[unstuck]

PE 400, was a fucking nightmare of a thing. XS 650,horrible.

[skippa1]

PE 400, was a fucking nightmare of a thing. XS 650,horrible.

+1 on the XS650.....what a fuckin dawg

[GrayWolf]

Kawasaki H1a 500

everyone knew the reputation, for power delivery and handling.... yet we went out and bought them, apart from the 750, and the 900, there was NOTHING quicker.....
and I guess there was that 'oooooo you own a Widowmaker' factor !!!

[trapster66]

I bought a new Gemini 125 back in 1973. Taiwanese, I think. Seized on the way home after about 6 k's.

looks exactly the same as kawasaki G5 fancy that... yours was probably better.

I bought a honda CM200T traded it on CB400N

[The Pastor]

dr 650.

Man what a shit bike.

[MIXONE]

PE 400, was a fucking nightmare of a thing. XS 650,horrible.

+1 to both.

[Big Dog]

When I owned one I thought the XS250 was the best thing since sliced bread. About the only bike I have no regrets about selling.

Since I have learned what a difference proper engineering can make.

A while ago several bike mags I regularly read all did best / worst polls on bikes from the 80s to 2005(?).
This was not multi choice and all the magazines had different bikes in most of the ranks. What did they all have in common? XS 250 was rated worst.

Stupid phone / Tapatalk, apologies in advance.

[buggerit]

XZ 400 , was fucking horrible, bought it new as a cheap commuter in swauckland but too slow and had a bad feeling about it so traded it 6 months later on gsx750es
Got a ring from the bike shop where I traded it to see if it was still under warrenty as it had shat itself on top of the harbour bridge on
a test ride, funny how you sense a change in your own ride that you cant put a finger on, sometimes it pays to go with your gut

[Motu]

Matchless G9, what a peice of shit - rode it home and was still sitting on it when the wiring burnt out. Worst handling bike I've ever owned. No stain on Matchless, it was a good bike when new, but totally fucked by the time I got it. But don't regret it, I leaned a lot on that bike.

[GrayWolf]

When I owned one I thought the XS250 was the best thing since sliced bread. About the only bike I have no regrets about selling.

Since I have learned what a difference proper engineering can make.

A while ago several bike mags I regularly read all did best / worst polls on bikes from the 80s to 2005(?).
This was not multi choice and all the magazines had different bikes in most of the ranks. What did they all have in common? XS 250 was rated worst.

Stupid phone / Tapatalk, apologies in advance.

It's strange, Honda always made good 4T bikes, and had a go at 2T (they were a bit fragile, methinks) out of the other 3, Yamaha made the best 2T, not always the absolute quickest, but generally the most robust and reliable, considering the huge amount of abuse L platers dished out to 250's ... I'll agree that as Yam never made anything bigger than the 400, I will accept the GT500/750 suzook's are a proven bike.
Yet for some reason Yamaha had the hardest 'path' in the 4T engine reliability/robustness route in the 70's.

[Oscar]

Yamaha DT250D.
What a bi heavy pig, wouldn't go around corners and it's party piece was dieseling.