Bikes you wished you'd never owned...

[Gix11]

Scotty came up with this one; Bike you wished you'd never owned. Everyone must have one, so here's the one I try and forget about (and usually do) to start it off.

59hp of four stroke twin lameness. It had it's market, but that wasn't me.

This is not the actual bike (you don't think I actually took a photo of it do you?)

http://94.236.93.162/site/wp-content/uploads/tdomf//8220/83kcf82-575x389.jpg

[sharky]

Gpz 600......last bike before i came here

[Redmohawk]

Gsx250S , In the end I punched it right square in the imaculate tank just below the filler so hard you could count my knuckel indentations. She did a big end on the way home from the GP that week, we didnt get along ever.

[Jinx]

Been lucky really considering all the bikes I've had over the last 40 years. Only one that turned out to be a real pig was a Kawasaki Vulcan 1500 I had from new. Writing was on the wall from day one as it was back every week for the first 6 weeks for warranty work. By about 10,000klm it was as scary as all fuck going through a corner at any speed and having a tank slapper. In fact it could have a tank slapper on a straight road if I hit a bump. The service manager took it home one night to try and work out what the problem was. The next day he told me to get rid of it before it killed me. Kawasaki allegedly couldn't find out what the problem was so gave me a new ZX9R to stop me going to the media.

[hyofighter]

for those that didnt read it in the other thread this was the bike i wished i never owned

a cagiva alazzurra gt650 , duc pantah in disguise , bust into flames mid ride was a bin job
http://tanshanomi.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/93_85cagiva-alzzurra-650-gt-85.jpg

[Tony Nitrous]

CJ250
XS250
KH250
CD200
CB750F1
Harley Sportster

[hooligan]

A virago 250. Glad i got my licence, but wish i'd bought a different first bike. Hard to kill (crashed it a few times as it was a first bike) but it was boring as bat shit after a week. Starter motor died and i think i push started it for a month before i could save up the cash for one from the wreckers.

[Tony Nitrous]

Everything I later found out that I didn't like about motorcycles.
Small (250) engine,
twin cylinder,
Y*maha,
cruiser,
4344
I think the lock was there due to no licence (no insurance)

that F#ck I guessed things would get better
or I would have given up on bikes there and then.

[geesexar]

cb 750k twin cam mutha it was orrible

[hutch]

Honda tl 125 trials bike

[oldskool]

DT 50 MX
VMAX
Speed Triple

[Hagarr]

XJ750 ex cop bike, got talked in to buying it :(

[FIGHTERMC]

Gpz 600......last bike before i came heresame as myself what a piece of shit it was.

[ALBI]

honda CBX500 i dont blame the bike ,i actually loved riding it ,but the fucker was a lemon.
bought it from maverick motorcycles in homebush about 20 yrs ago .
test road good no noises but 1 week later when i went in to pick up ,had to wait for finance not even 2 klms and big ends let go !!

[Fish]

Same as you Si, My little red gaffa tape machine. Bob will remember this and laugh.
4366

Spent more time in tape and string than it ever did whole. Had a pathetically small footed side stand (more of a lawn spike) that would fall over if you even thought about putting it on grass. Due to the fact that the indicators were attached ONLY to the fairing, and they were the widest part of the bike, I ended up having a conveniently coloured roll of red gaff under the seat 'cause getting it plastic welded was a waste of time. In the end I traded it in for the bandit (best decision I EVER made) after throwing some cheap tyres on that made me drift...EVERYWHERE!!!!!

[DaveG]

Yamaha XT600. I bought it when i lived in London after some drunken twat knocked me off a perfectly good, 4 week old ZX7. He was supposed to be inside and I only had third party insurance.

So i bought this heap of shite to get me by until I could fix the Kwaka. In the depths of winter in Peckham, i would be outside in a t-shirt, sweating like a mutha, kicking the piece of shit over for 20 minutes. I could have walked to work quicker. It would just cut out randomly even after it was warm and the whole starting bullshit would begin again on the side of the road.

Final indignation was on a wet December morning, sweating and kicking the shit out out of it. The stand snapped and me and the bike went over with the tank smacking me in the eye as it all hit the floor. Embarrassing as all fuck having to go to work and explain my black eye was due to a punch in the face from my bike.

Gave it away on the condition that my mate would never let me see it again

4368

[Mr Ed]

Hi, my name's Ed and I used to ride a Harley - there, I admit it. What a piece of crap, didn't corner or brake and the throttle just made the noise louder. One of the cams shat itself and was replaced under warranty even though the bike was about 8 years old at the time, indicators only worked from time to time and various bits fell of at random intervals. What the fuck was I thinking?

[Hagarr]

Hi, my name's Ed and I used to ride a Harley - there, I admit it. What a piece of crap, didn't corner or brake and the throttle just made the noise louder. One of the cams shat itself and was replaced under warranty even though the bike was about 8 years old at the time, indicators only worked from time to time and various bits fell of at random intervals. What the fuck was I thinking?

Wheres the like button when you need it!

[Weaselman]

GS650... What a shed

[rod185651]

A virago 250. Glad i got my licence, but wish i'd bought a different first bike. Hard to kill (crashed it a few times as it was a first bike) but it was boring as bat shit after a week. Starter motor died and i think i push started it for a month before i could save up the cash for one from the wreckers.

Yep me too, I still cop shit from certain mates about once owning a virago. I used to always borrow my mate's zxr7 and ride that instead. Didn't need P plates back then. So got away with it

[Tony Nitrous]

Virago, " a loud overbearing aggressive woman "

[alfiestorm]

Hodna cb200 for breaking a bone in my hand after punching the tank co's the fucker would not turn off and reved the shit out of its self at 2 in the morning and forever stopping when ever it wanted too, it was a kunt of a bike.

[hooligan]

Yep me too, I still cop shit from certain mates about once owning a virago. I used to always borrow my mate's zxr7 and ride that instead. Didn't need P plates back then. So got away with it
I got pulled over riding home from work at about 1am after going through a corner a bit quick. The cop asked me what club i rode with. i pissed myself laughing and pointed out it was a 250cc jap bike. I waited until they left before starting the bike again, as i was still push starting it.

I wish i could've borrowed a mates zxr.

[pommie02]

z1000 st...always breaking down...burnt oil and handled like shit
X5 200cc..I should have bought the x7

[Nudie]

RM250B the throttle was more like a switch than an accelerator. It was an evil, evil machine!

[Bob]

I had an EL250, It was a good bike for getting my license and I rode it from brisbane to townsville and back. But alway broke down by either shoting the spark plug out of the head, or carbie problems or over heating

[wackyrider]

z1000 st...always breaking down...burnt oil and handled like shit
X5 200cc..I should have bought the x7

I used to own an X7 back in the day. I wouldn't mind finding another one actually nowadays.

[Jockney Rebel]

voskhod 175
xs500
cb360g5
4x xs400 [bought em all for 50quid and despatched them to death one by one ]