Top 100 ugliest motocycles in history

**Rodney007** · 27th January 2009, 19:50

i duno if i qualify for motorcycling history, but texmo nabed one of me eating and blinking and its pretty damn ugly, im sure its up somewhere

**Dean** · 27th January 2009, 19:59

wheres the gn250 i didnt see it on the list.what am i saying the only reason why my bike is ugly is coz i ride it.

**pete376403** · 27th January 2009, 20:11

Quote "10) Kawasaki KLR 650 - Anyone who designs a motorcycle with a brown saddle and then mixes it with white and green semi-camo paintjob and then proceeds to slather that mess atop a peaked "morning wood under the sheets" tank and a completely useless minifairing deserves to be raking latrines for a living. Most of the KLR variants were just about as butt ugly as this model, and let's not forget the hideous Tengai!"
Yeah well, KLRs have never been really pretty as such and they have don some wierd colur combos through the ages. Love his description of the tank, I'll look at the bike in a different light from now on.

Edit - just found I've got two bikes on that list - Cool!

10) Suzuki GS Tourer - Although Suzuki did a reasonable job at their GS versions of the Universal Japanese Tourer, when it came time to outfitting it for touring they decided not to spend more than $20 styling it and thus created one of the true monsters of the UJM era. Would it have been possible to incorporate any more pointless manta ray slots into the Vetter Windjammer ripoff fairing? Could the backrest be any squarer and flatter? Would it have pained the company to design a new tank so that from the side you didn't think that it was a SUZ? File this one under Trash!

**NiggleC** · 27th January 2009, 20:18

Ahhh....... opinions. As Loudon Wainwright wrote in one of his songs "the worlds a place of horror cause each man thinks he's right".

I do think some of these are a wind up tho' i love the looks of the Vincent Black Prince (if you had one in the garage you would be thinking of early retirement if you sold it) and the Bimota Tesi.
my last 3 bikes have been 1984 BMW R80G/S

, 1997 BMW R1100GS and now a VStrom 1000. i think i am well qualified on what an ugly bike looks like.

**Dean** · 27th January 2009, 20:24

Originally Posted by NiggleC

Ahhh....... opinions. As Loudon Wainwright wrote in one of his songs "the worlds a place of horror cause each man thinks he's right".

I do think some of these are a wind up tho' i love the looks of the Vincent Black Prince (if you had one in the garage you would be thinking of early retirement if you sold it) and the Bimota Tesi.
my last 3 bikes have been 1984 BMW R80G/S

, 1997 BMW R1100GS and now a VStrom 1000. i think i am well qualified on what an ugly bike looks like.

dude the suzuki B king is hideous.or atleast the front of it looks like a cheap 20 dolla make you say holla round the corner ribbed sloppy bj.

**The Stranger:Me** · 27th January 2009, 21:04

Originally Posted by Rosie

They have a much broader definition of 'motard' than I do.
The KLR650 is ugly, but it isn't a motard

And what's with calling the SV a sportsbike?

**The Stranger:Me** · 27th January 2009, 21:13

Originally Posted by Oscar

The RC8?
The ugliest sprots bike?
Please...

I have some bad news for you, ALL KTM's are ugly as hell.
As a multiple KTM owner you are no doubt devoid of any shred of self respect and should recuse yourself.

**Oscar** · 27th January 2009, 21:28

Originally Posted by The Stranger

I have some bad news for you, ALL KTM's are ugly as hell.
As a multiple KTM owner you are no doubt devoid of any shred of self respect and should recuse yourself.

You could be right, but at this point I have to admit that before I owned my 950Adv I called it ugly, in print. I covered the 2003 Motor Show for Kiwi Rider:

Wandering around the motorcycle stands, I soon found the two bikes I was looking for: the KTM 950 adventure bike and the Kawasaki Z1000. I’d never seen a real live KTM LC8 before, so it was a bit of a shock – damn, that’s an ugly motorcycle. I suppose that as the Katoom’s major competition is THE world’s ugliest motorcycle (the BMW GS Adventure), the same utilitarian look was called for.

And speaking of ugly - Kawasaki, have you checked the water in your design department? Maybe I’m getting old, but those mufflers…and ORANGE paint?! I’m told it’s retro – to evoke memories of the original Z1 (which I think you’ll find was maroon and black). I think that anyone who lived through the seventies would agree with my theory that the reason substance abuse was rife in that decade is that it was the only relief from the horrible orange/green & orange/black colour schemes of the day.

**Skyryder** · 27th January 2009, 21:45

Originally Posted by Bonez

Laughed so hard I almost pissed myself.

Yep me too. I realy cracked up when he described one of the headlights as a Battlestar Galacta headlamp. I'm still pissin' m'self thiniking about it.

Still its a good read if ya don't take him too seriouse.

Skyryder

**PrincessBandit** · 27th January 2009, 22:14

I'm with Bonez on this. I too almost had to change my knickers after laughing so hard. There were some damned ugly creations in those lists and his descriptions were hilarious.
Balu was disappointed there wasn't a scooter list. Perhaps that was for the best.
(or was there and I just didn't see it...)
Saw some of his favourites there though - the BMW F800ST, Honda DN01. I cracked up hardest over the Star Trek transporter beam comment, and the "so ugly insect that even a spider wouldn't eat it". Classic.

**Gremlin** · 27th January 2009, 23:16

Originally Posted by The Stranger

I have some bad news for you, ALL KTM's are ugly as hell.
As a multiple KTM owner you are no doubt devoid of any shred of self respect and should recuse yourself.

Cute coming from a pretty boy... both yours are yamahas...

Since I only own one, I naturally have good taste. I've found its actually got an excellent 3/4 look for pictures...

I'm trying to imagine the number of hits his site is taking, simply from KB

**The Stranger:Me** · 27th January 2009, 23:56

Originally Posted by Gremlin

Cute coming from a pretty boy... both yours are yamahas...

Me Pretty? Get your eyes checked - urgent!

It's that fucken ladyboy YamahaArseSex4Life, he's the only pretty boy Yamaha rider and he's fucked it up for all Yamaha riders now hasn't he?

**slowpoke** · 28th January 2009, 01:40

With a few notable exceptions that are almost universally dry retched upon, this list seems to prove one thing: some people actually do crave mediocrity.

**Winston001** · 28th January 2009, 02:35

Originally Posted by Skyryder

Yep me too. I realy cracked up when he described one of the headlights as a Battlestar Galacta headlamp. I'm still pissin' m'self thiniking about it.

Still its a good read if ya don't take him too seriouse.

Yep. This guy is classic.

It doesn't matter that you don't agree with his opinion, he's just so damned funny and erudite about it.

I think he's wrong as often as right but the descriptions are hilarious. And its a wind-up anyway, nothing serious.