What's the worst bike you've ridden?

[danchop]

[QUOTE=naphazoline;1812155]if i remember rightly,the xr with the "rc" suffix was a goody though??[/QUOTE
yeah ra thru to rd were superb,re/rf stuffed up big time because of engines then they came right again

[carver]

Harley nightster
Kawasaki ER5
a Mini chopper
my suzuki savage was shit too

cruisers are usually shit

[Bonez]

The CX is absolutely shocking. Can't understand why I ride the bloody thing

[sedge]

TL1000s, knackered rear damper/spring, fark, never again, sold it, cried, spent a year off bikes thinking how crap I was.

Sedge.

[danchop]

sad you had a bad time owning one of those,out of the near 150 bikes ive owned or ridden the tl was by far the most fun,probably cause they handled like shit but i loved it

[sedge]

sad you had a bad time owning one of those,out of the near 150 bikes ive owned or ridden the tl was by far the most fun,probably cause they handled like shit but i loved it

Yeah, fair enough, get a shite one and they are shite, same as anything else. If it had had good suspension I'd still have it.

It IS the worst bike I've owned, can't comment on other TLs and I can't claim 150 !, I've owned 10 bikes maybe ???

30k a year on them so I do get to know them quite well, the suspension was so bad I see-sawed into corners and squatted wide on the way out, just couldn't get my head around it, no amount of smoothness helped.

Looked good, sounded great, had enough poke, really didn't like going round corners in a hurry. Like I said, experience shows it was a poked rear end, it shouldn't sag that much.

Sedge.

[cave weta]

old 60 - 70s kawasaki mountain goat

Ha ha - the goat would come as a close second for me too!

I found that when landing it from a tabletop it would shower alkathene plumbing fittings, drench guns and fencing staples accross the raceway as the seat hinge had rusted off!

[cave weta]

Ha ha - the goat would come as a close second for me too!

I found that when landing it from a tabletop it would shower alkathene plumbing fittings drench guns and fencing staples accross the raceway as the seat hinge had rusted off!

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[Bass]

Honda XL350. The bike was OK but the tyres on it were unreal. In the wet, any use of throttle at all resullted in instant wheel spin and corners were out of the question.
The strange thing was that I got used to it and actually started to enjoy it after a while.

[vifferman]

The worse bike I've ridden? It'd be a toss up between an old Gummint issue CT90 farmbike, and a well-thrashed Suzuki 125 trailbike a friend of mine bought. I never sorted out what was wrong with it, but we never got the thing running properly: lots of backfiring, spluttering, coughing, cutting out. Was a real pig to ride. May be it was a Suzuki thing; a flatmate of mine back in the early 80's had a late 70s Suzuki T-250 that had a similar problem, but only misfiring, not the rest of the malarkey. While not quite so bad, as the rest of the bike was pretty tidy, it wasn't nice to ride.

Not the worst bike, but the worst ride I've had might be nursing the FahrtSturm in peak-hour traffic in the rain when it was running on only 1-and-a-bit cylinders. Did that a few times till I worked out what the problem was (front sparkplug boot had a minute tear in it).

[vifferman]

Honda XL350.

I've ridden one of those only once - it belonged to the brother of a girlfriend back in 1977/78. I thought it was OK, but the handling on the road was weird, kinda like it had a flexiframe or summat...

[Bass]

I've ridden one of those only once - it belonged to the brother of a girlfriend back in 1977/78. I thought it was OK, but the handling on the road was weird, kinda like it had a flexiframe or summat...

The tyres on the one I am referring to were so bad that I couldn't push it hard enough to find out about the frame.

[Dan Mapp]

A RV 90 with a Side Car lol

[NZsarge]

Honda CT125 or Suzuki Mudbug125, not sure which was the worst though, was a long time ago.

[vifferman]

one day while following a truck,i decided to pull out to pass.
what a joke.it took about a minute to get half way up beside him,then i had to pull back cause of on coming traffic

Huh.
That reminds me of test-riding a couple of bikes back in 94-ish. One was a Honda 300 Bros, and the other was a GB400. I can't remember which one it was, but I'm pretty sure it was the GB: I pulled out to pass a car and the guy put his foot down and I had to back off, as it didn't feel like it was going to get past.