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?)
Gpz 600......last bike before i came here
Jesus died for his own sins...NOT MINE !
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.
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.
Last edited by Jinx; 24-05-2013 at 09:43 PM.
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
CJ250
XS250
KH250
CD200
CB750F1
Harley Sportster
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.
more titanium than my bike
Everything I later found out that I didn't like about motorcycles.
Small (250) engine,
twin cylinder,
Y*maha,
cruiser,
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.
cb 750k twin cam mutha it was orrible
Honda tl 125 trials bike
DT 50 MX
VMAX
Speed Triple
"I call it a Camberwell carrot as I invented it in Camberwell and it looks alot like a carrot"
XJ750 ex cop bike, got talked in to buying it
same as myself what a piece of shit it was.Originally Posted by sharky
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 !!
Same as you Si, My little red gaffa tape machine. Bob will remember this and laugh.
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!!!!!
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
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!
GS650... What a shed
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
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