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    Worst bike ever ridden

    Right - we spend soooo long on this site yakking about the best of the best....now lets see the worst of the worst.

    KK - I will ask Spankme to increase the maximum post size of 10,000 characters so you won't have to use multiple posts to fit yours own .

    Let's see the worst.....

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    As a generic class of bikes, the "1970s Japanese two-stroke farmbike" takes a power of heading off... Hard to start, hard to stop (cow shit and drum brakes are mutually incompatible), plugs that oiled up repeatedly (Yamaha's Agbike had a two-plug head at one stage -- you swapped the lead once a plug oiled, and hopefully the other had been burned clean), crap short-throw suspension, spoked wheels, guards too low... Mobile balls of shit they quickly became. Fortunately manufacturers learned quickly...
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    Honda XL 250. The old one with the 23" front wheel. (1980?)
    Whose idea was THAT!

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    Yamaha XS250,complete heap of crap,still notorious over 20 years later in Britain as a fine example of how not to design a bike,they seemed to come out of the factory with a glitch that made them cut out at the most inconvienient/dangerous times.this one came up on another site as several people`s "worst ever" and a mechanic from the old days reckons the problem was that Yamaha gave the wrong info on timing the sodding thing so first time they were serviced the timing got set wrong and the problems started.like a lot of other mugs I got mine cheap thinking it was a bargain.Ended up selling it even cheaper and was glad to see the back of it.Honda CB250G5 was nearly as bad,everything scraped on just about every corner,the paint faded on the red ones within months and if they ran at all in the wet you`d get electric shocks down your legs from the plug leads,it was also dog-slow,with that handling it`s just as well I suppose.XS500?lovely bike when everything was set up perfectly,slightest thing a touch out of tune and it was a pig.mine had the top-end re-built under guarantee and again 3 months later when I`d had enough and was actually going to see a guy about a swap deal,luckily it was dark and I wiped the oil off and did the deal.Got a snotty letter almost in the next post,telling me to pay half the cost of the quote from his dealer.If he`d asked I would have,matter of conscience if nothing else.As it was didn`t like his attitude and wrote back,"go and F*** yourself",dont know whether he did or not because he didnt reply.

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    The worst had to be the Suzuki 120 powered Farmbyke. Everything about it was an amplified version of what most people here dislike about Hogleys. But they weren't road registerable (I don't think...) so a dishonourable mention must go to the Kawasaki H1 500. Seriously scary!
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    Never had a really bad bike,but I've had a couple with strange habits.
    My BSA 350 single,was always a bastard to start on real cold mornings and would even fight back with the most wicked kick back thru' the kick start,Not good for skinny fifteen year old legs.
    My Ducati SD900 just loved turning off the lights half way round a corner at 130.am mid winter.Seeing as how I lived 40km out in the sticks an had no street lighting That got old bloody quick so she went elsewhere.
    Any of the half dozen Suzuki T500s,They had handling that was on another planet,Crap brakes,crap suspension,a swing arm that would flex all over the place,Going hard in a corner the front would be weaving,the rear would be fish tailing,a real max' feed back type of ride"Bloody great bikes"
    My first Harley,did most things ok,even handled good in the dirt,But the brakes were the biggest joke in biking,If it rained I had to plan every thing two hundred meters in advance and a number of times i did put both feet on the ground,I got real good at dodging things at the last moment,The cars thought I was lane spliting"Shit I should of been so lucky" I had a mate Terry on the back one night when things got out of hand,Terrys screaming STOP,An I just screamed back,I BLOODY AM!!!!!!!.After we got back home Terry swore he would never ride on the back with me again,Reckons I did it intentionally,No sence of adventuer that lad.
    Anyway thats just some of em, aye!!

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    The CBX 400 / 550 in perticlar the 550 F2...... For some reason they'd wobbel like hell somthing wicked mainely around bends at speed with no warning and it would end up in a tank slap, pity cos they were a nice bike when you'r in ya teens.

    1450 twin cam super gulid arrrrrrr...... (or most likely any Harley) No grunt no handling no ground clearance and when ya managed to get up to 100kph the for arms ached like hell cos of leaning back and the wind.
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    Quote Originally Posted by wkid_one
    Right - we spend soooo long on this site yakking about the best of the best....now lets see the worst of the worst.

    KK - I will ask Spankme to increase the maximum post size of 10,000 characters so you won't have to use multiple posts to fit yours own .

    Let's see the worst.....
    Aren't you going to contribute a story wkid? :spudwhat:

    All of the bikes I have owned have been a great ride! None have been pigs, even my trustworthy '81 Honda MB100 (now used as a runabout on a batch in Tairua, Coromandel) was reliable & comfy.

    I suppose the worst ride I ever had was on a courtesy bike from Cyclespot Honda, Auckland. I bought my '95 Fireblade new from them and had it in for it's first service. When I asked for a loan bike for 1 day they gave me some 100cc piece of crap that felt as though it was going to fall apart when I rode it home...that experience has always blemished the reputation of Cyclespot in my eyes to this day! It also took me 2 months to get my Blade's horn replaced with them which was faulty from new...Blue-Wing Honda who import the bikes ended up giving me a replacement horn from their demo bike- they were most embarrased.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Zed
    ..that experience has always blemished the reputation of Cyclespot in my eyes to this day!
    Shit, you got off cheap!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zed
    I suppose the worst ride I ever had was on a courtesy bike from Cyclespot Honda, Auckland.
    Zed
    I had a 95 Fireblade as well. My loaner from Sawyers once was a DJ50 which is a bright yellow and black scooter. Problem was that all my riding gear was yellow/black as well so it looked like I got the full-on gear for the bike. Then when I left work to pick up my blade a few "friends" gathered downstairs to take the piss outta me
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    Quote Originally Posted by moko
    Yamaha XS250,complete heap of crap,still notorious over 20 years later in Britain as a fine example of how not to design a bike,they seemed to come out of the factory with a glitch that made them cut out at the most inconvienient/dangerous times.
    I had a xs 250 and it was a great bike. That cut out you mentioned only happened for me a) When cops were about (saved me a lot of tickets.) or b)when I was doing 160 plus and hit a head wind.


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    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.

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    Suzuki T125 was a real pig. Yamy XS750 was cool but still a pig. Harley 1980 Shovel sporty was quick between the lights, (would blow away Ninga's of that era off the lights) but couldn't go around corners or stop either!!!

    They were all pigs but were awesome as well for different reasons.

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    It's all relative I think,if we went back to ride some of the shitters they might seem better in a new light,the dream bikes pieces of crap.

    A couple of my own - I thought my Rickman Metisse was made in heaven just for me,perfect in every way,except for the small tank,but you could get fuel anywhere in those days.At the same time I also had a Cheney Triumph,a similar bike,but this one was made in the late 60s for Ivan Millar.Shorter and quicker steering I didn't like it and in fact hardly ever rode it.Going back to them now after riding tall quick steering modern bikes I might find the Rickman low and slow,the Cheney just right.

    I think the worst bike I have ever owned and ridden was my 1953 Matchless G9,this was a 500cc twin in a frame that wasn't up to a 350 single.I got it off an unemployed nuclear physisist who had just ridden it around the South Island,gotta be reliable for sure.I rode it home and sat outside my mates place watching the wiring burn out,the plastic ammeter melt and fall into the headlamp - it was all down hill from there.It was the same age as me,but I was a full of life teenager,it on it's last legs of life.Rebuilding the magneto was the equivalent of 3 wage packets,but it still didn't start or run well.I ran an open primary case as I was always pulling the clutch to bits trying to find a cure for clutch slip,or drag,but never succeeded.The motor was so worn that the poor breather couldn't cope,so pumped oil out the generator as well,which never worked either.When I pulled the barrels of,I had to yank them hard,the lip on the bottom of the bore was so big.Nice motor though - wire wound pistons to control expansion,separate barrels and heads,roller followers and ecentric rockers for the easiest valve adjustments I have ever done - bike,car or truck.

    I could of lived with all that if it wasn't for the handling,it was almost uncontrolable,although I could get some good slides going in the wet with the jampots bouncing.You couldn't put any power on until it was out of the corner and upright,otherwise it just snapped off into whichever direction it was pointed.Tried lots of diferent bars - cut down a set of apehangers to make a huge pair of pullbacks,but these gave too much leaverage and I could almost bend the bike in half in a corner...I found a set of flat bars worked best,although it needed a lot of input to go where you wanted.Going where you didn't want to go was easy....in the days before mirrors a quick glance behind would see you in the gravel shoulder.

    I don't know how or to who I unloaded this pile of shit onto,but I'm glad I owned it - it gives me a benchmark for bad,very bad ,so even mediocer bikes are the very best I've ridden.
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    Kawasaki S2 350 triple. Not bad, so much as evil. No power until it hit it's powerband and then you had everything it had RIGHT F__KING NOW Jimbo!!

    Clip-ons under the top triple clamp (it only had the top triple clamp) so you constantly head butted the intrument cluster during the unceasing "I didn't intend to do that wheelie, honest officer", wheelstands.

    It flexed. As in you could see with the naked eye the forks deflect to the left or right depending on the corner direction.

    And the rear shocks pogoed like a bouncy castle filled with lime jelly.

    But it still made you laugh like a madman when the thing came on song and tried to buck and worm it's way from under you. It also made my RG250 feel very fast and very comfortable in comparison.
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