Dissapointing bikes you have bought

[XS1100 0]

Bikes you've bought that have turned out to be a dissapointment.

I will start with a Suzuki GT185 in cafe race trim it was bloody awful

[Chadatious 0]

ive got 2.

first at 16 a 50cc 4stroke chinese scooter, had it 2 weeks, 15mph up hills. was embarising, so got shot.

second was my 1989 zxr400, unreliable as fook, made such a loss on the bike in 1 month, were talikng 500 loss

[madsod 0]

got from new a Fantic GT 50 and it feel apart , what could go wrong did ,all my other bikes have been very good to date

[fr499y 0]

cant really say ive had a bad bike.

[goferit 0]

Super looking v-twin cruiser--toatally crap for any-thing other than poodling about.
Total w.o. money = Yamaha Royal-Star
Bought it new---Got rid of after two months

[Tony nitrous 0]

XS250 custom... just awful !
Didnt want to start, gutless motor.

Harley Sportster... wanted to like it,
but just kept breaking things.

GSX750ESD... couldnt get on with the 16" front wheel.

CJ250... had a very short life...BANG!

CB750 SOHC F1 ... starved its own top end of oil
and snapped a camshaft when it seized.

[Stue11 0]

Honda 650slr spent more time in the garage i wanted to love her The only good thing she was used for was for pulling wheelies...it was also my last winter hack

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[mick900 0]

GS5oo what a dog never again.
Had it to get back on bikes again after a time off but it could of been a put off,soon got rid

[Macie_UK 0]

Kawasaki GPz305 - the one with the belt drive and the forks made out of cheese - only *just* better than walking.

Kawasaki Z250 Scorpion - set fire to itself on the A46 on the way home. The melted bits sat on the patio for a while...

[Davehutch-hutchs 0]

MZ 250 never did run right

[originalrocker 1 0]

Ive owned old Brits from Bantams to Nortons,japs Honda suzys etc,CZsJawas, all good, the only awful one? A Harley Sportster!which I wanted for years,expensive,totally unreliable,heavy,noisy,and bloody awful handling.be careful what you wish for.

[Tony nitrous 0]

@originalrocker 1 wrote:

the only awful one? A Harley Sportster!.

I wanted to build a flat-track / XLCR replica Harley,
I managed to get one of the very last 4 speed,
chain drive Sportsters, before they all went 5 speed chain drive
(still an "Evo" model that had been out a few years)

The chrome heat sheilds fell off the exhaust,
A hard rev 1st gear launch was 100% garanteed to blow the headlight bulb.
The front sprocket fell off and removed all
the thread where the locknut should have gone.
A "spirited" ride from Kidderminster to Newquay
and back resulted in knocking big ends.
Various odd's and ends, nuts and bolts,
accesseries would fall off at random
(probabley through vibration)
the list go's on and on and on....

Im not a man to give up on anything easily.
I stuck at it for 18 months, then gave up.

[Tony nitrous 0]

I asked a bloke what he did for work,
he said "a development Technician for Harley Davidson
but they havent been called into work since 1903 !"