Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > whats your worst ever bike.

[Redsps]

Have been trawling through the garage today and found a heap of old bike manuals etc.
Looking through them made me remember some of my old bikes, good and bad.
One in particular was an total pig of a bike, an old Yam DT175.
Everything that could fail, did, everything else just fell off. Still not sure why I put up with it for so long.

What bikes have you other peeps had that were total pants.

Red....

[kwikbitch]

Raleigh Apollo....:P

[TP]

Well, I haven't been unhappy with any of them really.

I guess the worst one was my Z1000 which had a hinge in the frame and some rubber pushbike brakes - but a bullet proof motor.

That was written off when a car did a u-turn in front of me - OUCH

[BDG]

Bloody thing snapped its camchain the day after i bought it, been stood for 2 years. Rebuilt engine and the bloody thing would need a new cam chain every 30,000 miles without fail.

It blew itself to pieces after about 150,000 miles, but at least gave me a supply of bits to keep the other one going.

It handled like a pig.

Looked absolutely disgusting, i wanted a cheap fairing to get me thru winter, rang round various manufacturers until i found a cheap one. It was horrendous huge Gary Glitter type metalflake electric blue leftover from the 70's. No wonder no one had bought it. The mounting brackets were real Heath Robinson and as you got upto speed (relatively speaking of course) the whole fairing would begin to pivot and move backwards. Complete utter bag of poo.

Probably the worst point was the pi$$ take you'd get from other people, but it earnt me enough money to run GS1000 and Katana 1100.

[dave w]

My first bike... Suzuki AP 50 with an A100 lump in....mad bike 75 MPH... drum brakes and pants handling.... all my mates had fizzie's FS1E yam's...could they catch me....No way mine was the fastest 50 in town

[webbyc]

Honda CB250 G5, rubber frame, no brakes, thin tyres, absolute pig, but it did commute me up and down to London for a while in all weathers and never broke down.

[rcgbob44]

My H1E Kwak, Fitted with flat bars, J&R chambers, 13 1/2" girling shocks & Read Titan rear sets. Consumed fuel at 19 miles per galon and had an elastic frame that would not hold a straight line flat out over the Hoggs Back.
An interesting bike, wouldn`t mind another really, perhaps a 750 engine in an Lc frame!!!!!!

[ducv2]

Best and worst bike, CBX turbo in '85. 160 bhp, 130 rear tyre and really bendy frame. Lots of fun. Oh and a new gearbox, clutch, and crankshaft when I turned the boost up

[Loz]

1975 Suzuki GT750A - need I say more?

[ScottyB]

First bike had to be the worst...........KR1S

Death trap, or maybe that was just the rider flying about on it. Lethal in the wet, and the engine was made of chocolate, needed a rebuild what felt like once a month.

And as for the colour.............mutant ninja turtle green..........