The biggest piece of sheit bike you were sucked in to buying?

[inlinefour]

A Yamaha RD350LC, I had a fractured clavical and rather than give it a good going over I got the owner to push it into the garage and I handed over the $$$. Ignored it for another month while the bone was healing and then started looking at it as I wanted to restore it. The more I looked at it the more I relaised that things where not good. Then I took it for a ride and oh my lord, what a POS!!! Tried to on sell it, but it did not feel right that I rip off some other poor sod. Luckily for me I had brought it from another KBer through tardme and after a fair bit of noise, he agreed to take it back less a hundy for the fuel he used to bring it down. So it cost me that and the fuel and time to bring it back to him. Although, somewhere I still have the original airbox for it. I got a RD250LC awhile later and it was a great bike at a good price, Skunk has it now.

[McDuck]

From memory it was a cam nut
Ohh Hang On I recall now--he fired the bike up and revved it up with no exhaust system
Someone came to his rescue and took the headn barrel off for him.
But the wrecker the engine came from is adament the engine was running on 2 and came out of a bike
Interesting though--the ORIGONAL engine still in the bike had dropped one cylinder

i know who i would trust.....









suzuki....

[FROSTY:Me]

i know who i would trust.....









suzuki....

then theres the story of the breaking frames,rgv nikasil bores peeling,disks wearing at a phenominal rate.--Suzuki ya say?

[McDuck]

then theres the story of the breaking frames,rgv nikasil bores peeling,disks wearing at a phenominal rate.--Suzuki ya say?

And yet you race one.......

[FROSTY:Me]

And yet you race one.......

Heheheehe--touche

[Smokin]

I had an RD250G that blew up every time it looked at a straight piece of road.
after giving it it's third piston I thought it was time for it to share it's thirst for molten alloy with a new owner.

[paturoa]

Honda Ct90.

Test ride was OK.

Handed over my pingas and took it for a ride.

Picture this (no tank remember) I'm going down a hill and put the brakes on. Well the twat had recently had the handle bars off (he never told me why) and had only finger tightened the bolts.

So as my weight goes forward, the bars roll forward, and with my sudden death grip this opens the throttle wide, almost as wide as my eyes at this stage (I can't recall, but suspect the sphincter (sp?) was not wide open).

Anyway straight into a ditch and ferked the forks.

Replaced those.

Fucking thing would go OK on the flat and even better down hill. But the centrifugal clutch was no good for hills. A few short weeks later it shat a small end and rooted the whole mess. I ended up selling it for the cost of a couple of beers....

[SixPackBack]

New K4 GSXR thou........never missed a beat until 36K, then it would start cutting out for 10 seconds at a time, might only happen once every two weeks. After it had nearly killed me a coupla times decided to get it fixed.
6 visits to colemans later the wiring loom, cam/crankshaft sensors, side stand switch, ECU, ignition switches and a whole lot of other shite was replaced [under warranty]. The bike still missed!...traded the fooker on a K6 and was told they finally figured the fuel pump was rooted.
Guess this is more about dodgy workmanship/fault finding than a dodgy bike, but yeah what a nightmare.

[McDuck]

New K4 GSXR thou........never missed a beat until 36K, then it would start cutting out for 10 seconds at a time, might only happen once every two weeks. After it had nearly killed me a coupla times decided to get it fixed.
6 visits to colemans later the wiring loom, cam/crankshaft sensors, side stand switch, ECU, ignition switches and a whole lot of other shite was replaced [under warranty]. The bike still missed!...traded the fooker on a K6 and was told they finally figured the fuel pump was rooted.
Guess this is more about dodgy workmanship/fault finding than a dodgy bike, but yeah what a nightmare.

Wow, that is.... impressive....

[98tls]

With the stealth that comes of ten years practise 98tls cracks another woodie and waits....and waits ...........

[McDuck]

With the stealth that comes of ten years practise 98tls cracks another woodie and waits....and waits ...........

I agree.....

[chanceyy]

this is a warning to keep the thread on topic personal attacks will not be tolerated.

if you have any issues then sort them out in person, & lets not use the forum as a vehicle to abuse others

right as you were ..

chanceyy

[Citroenjunkie]

I bought it from my dad, for not much and that was about all it was worth.

When it ran, which it did if the day was dry, you'd spent the previous day stroking it, cleaning the carbs out, fitting new plugs and generally removing the skin from your knuckles. It was bloody quick. In the way that the lifts in the sky tower are quick, you know, takes your breath away and leaves your bowels quivering. But reliable it was not!

After a few month and a few speeding fines, One on the day I got my licence in fact!, I sold it back to my dad who rode it once and pronounced it a load of rubbish and shifted it on again.

The worst bikes I've ever bought... were bloody Citroen cars all three of them were massive, tragic wastes of money how else do you describe a $9000 bill for a broken cam belt?

How do I change my user name?

[Hailwood]

An 82 Ducati Mike Hailwood Replica...always wanted one and saw it, rode it and had to have it........biggest piece of kaka I owned.....first 13 weeks it was in shop for 11 weeks of that. It would start up first time, warm up all good. Turn it off, go and get geared up and then push the start button..nothing..bike shop couldnt fix it...typical dodgy italian electrics from the 80s!!!!!!!

I owned it for 6 months, did about 500kms on it and sold it.

[Toaster]

The bikes have all been good so far. Mass produced, but good.

Although the VTR1000F Firestorm had mahogany for brakes.