Worst bike ever ridden

[Dak]

Worst bike I EVER rode was a GSX-R1000K7

[Rogue]

Worst bike I rode was the Kawasaki 1300 first of the fuel injection models in the '80's went like stink but wouldn'd stop and sure as hell didn't like corners also seemed very heavy

[sweetp]

Having not ridden many bikes I dont know if I can really contribute. Had a go on Nastys Viargo - was supposed to do a bike swap for this ride and just freaked out on it. Didn't even get it one lap around the car park. Couldn't handle my legs sticking out and don't get me started on the uprightness. God I love sports bikes!

[Japtwin]

Oh the memories. yeah Jim 2 absolutely; my mate had a Kwaka triple and I had a Suzuki GT 380 2 stoke thing, mine was unreliable, didn't handle but went like crax=zy when it did. But his jeeeesus was just mental, riding it was... nothing... not much...not much... then Holy crap why am I looking at the sky/ tarmac/sky/ouch gravel rash. I very nearly bought a 500 kwaka 2 stroke off a guy at the freezing works for $500, at the tender age of 17. I'm quite sure if I had I would no longer be here.

[geoffm]

Ohh, where to start...
A B120 I leanrnt to ride on, with square, old Cheng Shin tyres, and it was bent, but you couldn't tell because the frame flexed so much, You could see the swingarm flexing from behind as it was going al ong as traight road. I had a 2 wheel drift on that in the rain 6 weeks after getting it. i still don't know how I kept it upright.
I had an A100 bucket that was worse... I have never seen such a piece of shit in my life.
I borrowed a firends GSX550 - the oen with the 16" front wheel. Extremely dodgy handling.
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[LilSel]

Havent rode that many bikes but I least enjoyed/liked riding a hyosung

[MaxB]

Oh the memories. yeah Jim 2 absolutely; my mate had a Kwaka triple and I had a Suzuki GT 380 2 stoke thing, mine was unreliable, didn't handle but went like crax=zy when it did. But his jeeeesus was just mental, riding it was... nothing... not much...not much... then Holy crap why am I looking at the sky/ tarmac/sky/ouch gravel rash. I very nearly bought a 500 kwaka 2 stroke off a guy at the freezing works for $500, at the tender age of 17. I'm quite sure if I had I would no longer be here.

My experience of a Kwaka H2 750 was test riding a mates, opening her up and watching myself slowly crabbing into the oncoming traffic even I was holding it straight. I didn't buy it.

[kevfromcoro]

Kawasaki 750,2 stroke tripple.
went like stink when it did go....wouldnt stop..and wouldnt go round corners,
Think they used to call these things...Widow Makers.
I can see why.....

[Timber020]

1998 fireblade, what a hunk of shit ,it went back to the dealership 6 times or so for various problems ,there were runs in the paint on the front guard and rust where the flange was welded onto the flange.the bike was so slow that a 2 up 98 zx9 would eat it, hence the reason i promptly traded it on a 98 zx9. and the worst problem was the bike cutting out mid corner when ridden hard.ill never get another honda , shame really usually you buy new bikes so they dont break down. honda

Ive got a 98 that I have had for a while and its been brilliant. You get lemons in every batch though.

[DarkLord]

My wosrst ever has to be a nifty 50. I could not get under way without popping a wheelie

stopping in under 30ft resulted in either a stoppie or the front letting go.

This could be due to my weight

But it was not a problem on my g/f's suzuki equivalent.

or my mate had a KR250 2 stroke. It had a experimental dual carb setup where one was for low speed/rpm then the other cut in in an effort to biff me off the back. Below 5,000 only one cylinder fires theb at 7,500 the other cylinder comes in just as it reaches the lower end of the power band.

Every time he road it something else wore out.

Amen to that. I've never owned a nifty 50, but used to ride a friend's one often. It was horrid. No suspension (you felt EVERY bump on the road), no gears (of course), horrible brakes (braking at speed is just not an option - you try and the bike is on top of you), and was just so tiny and unsafe.

I had some nasty bins on that bike, the worst by far was when I was riding down a private road with an electric fence on the side. I somehow managed to take a flier off the bike, hit all 3 hot wires of the electric fence and land in a heap on the road. Still to this day don't know how it happened, but I still remember my side throbbing something brutal due to the electric shock and I remember wandering around in a daze for at least 10 minutes afterwards, wondering what the hell happened.

The last I heard of that particular nifty 50, someone plowed it into a fence and it literally snapped in half.

That bike nearly put me off biking altogether. There has been a few times where I've locked up the back wheel on my current bike (Hyosung GT250R) and it's fishtailed a bit but stayed upright, thank God. I feel so much safer now.

[Pwalo]

Yamaha XZ550, Honda CB350/4, Kawasaki 250 twin (Samurai), Vespa 150 SS, Honda SL125 (although perhaps not in that order).

Scariest - definitely the H2. First gear at the bottom of the Gorge. Straight across both lanes when it hit the power band. Obviously Kawasaki had figured the secret to actually moving and cornering simultaneously at that stage.

[GaZBur]

Worst I raced was a Kawasaki 400 in the 410cc Production class.
Three different spark plugs were needed, hot(left) cold(centre) medium(right) and it used more cash in plugs than petrol which on the track was under 20 miles to the gal!!! YES TRUE! It was temperamental as a prima donna with PMT.

Also mentioned here was the TM400. The worst injury I ever sustained trying to start a bike, the kickback was astronomical.

Also mentioned here was the GT750 - whch I actually liked as a tourer but was not competitive on the track. "HEAVY man! Real heavy! "(Said in a stoned 70's voice)

Worst engineered was a Yam trail bike. The RT360 1971. When the crankcase was split a mechanic tried to tell me they were off different bikes because they werent matching- required a huge press to get it back together before I quickly sold it.

[tri boy]

Honda ATC 250R. Kept trying to chew my leg off. (do Trikes count)?

[Manxman]

93 YZF750 (basically an R7 homologation bike, which I didn't know till after I bought it....Doh).

Fecken mental fast and either off, or
ON

[98tls]

An 89 750 Ducati sport,sounded nice but a complete and utter heap of shite.