What was your worst motorcycle?

Question

My brother had a Hondamatic. It was a 750 with the acceleration of a 250.

Answer 1

I would say my second bike, a 1947 Indian Chief. Not in very good shape, at 6 years, old when I got it, gave me a bit of trouble, then introduced me to speed wobbles. Traded it for a 1934 Ford 3 window coupe, and enough money for registration and insurance. After this, all have been good or better. Best have been a Vincent Black Prince, a 1960 Triumph Bonneville, a 1989 Kaw ZX10, and a 1990 Kaw ZX11. All the rest have been acceptable, One of thr most fun was a 1969 Kaw Mach III. Not the best handler, but a firecracker with a short fuse.

Tomcotexas

Answer 2

My first bike. The one I don't talk about much. An old one-lung Hodaka.
This was actually my first one. It never ran.
The reason I even owned it was that I had traded a car (another non-runner) for it just before I left for Boot camp. The thinking at the time was "I'll trade a piece of junk for a smaller one. It'll take less room in the barn."
I started riding about 7 years later. Since then, I haven't had a bad one. Including the 400 Hondamatic. Some not so good, but no bad. And every experience is just that, an experience.

Answer 3

Qlink Pegasus 150 scoot- Constant overheating. Company admitted that the next run will have bigger radiator's. It was supposed to have a 2 yr unlimited mileage warranty but factory refused to respond to my problems. I am now stuck with it repairing it myself by adding another radiator in series with first. Also adding Evans Coolant. Pure coolant no water added. You can safely run engines hotter with it. Then I'm going to sell the blasted thing. It's like a cheating wife, I just can't trust it. Will probably make a good scoot for someone else. I can't sell it in good conscience till it is fixed. So how can these commie Mainland Chinese turds do it to us all the time? You would not believe the junk you can get from china mainland. I got a mechanic friend now, because of my problems, and he works fixing china scoots about 9 a day. And it is only a small town of 60,000. Only place around that will even touch them. Have had 1 Yamaha 1100,great bike for the time it was made. And I've owned several Honda's all were great bikes. I don't think you could tear one up if you tried, as long as you did regular service on them!!! David D P

Answer 4

2003 Harley Davidson Fat Boy
100th anniversary edition

big bore kit
stage 1 kit
nearly 6,000 in accessories.


I could not ride for more than 2 hours and it would be broke on the side of the road. Every time it was mechanical, and thankfully it was under warranty.

I will never own another H-D again.

Answer 5

for reliability id have to say my 92 gsxr 750 it would eat coils and picks ups like they were going out of style even changed wire harnes and went to all after market ingnition .. but there was my cbr 600 at 77k it would eat a quart of oil with every tank or two best bikes i've had have been ninja 600's had two with over 100k on them and never left me stranded and didnt have to put any oil in between changes

Answer 6

Like they said above, it's like sex....

My least favorite was my first bike, a 1979 Kawasaki Spector 750... it had a fueling problem that I could never fix.

Thinking back, that was probably due to my (at the time) lack carburetor knowledge.

Answer 7

A BSA Bantam, long time ago obviously. Was so bad that I couldn't start it. Kicked the bee-jasus out of it. JUst oiled up so easily that I had the spark plug in and out all the time cleaning it

Answer 8

a 185 cc dirt street honda. It wasn't really bad, just not as good as the other bikes I've had.

Answer 9

Ducati. kept having wiring problems. the italians can't seem to make anything that uses electricity and mechinical together with any reliability.

Answer 10

Hmmmm, looking back dreamily thru the years . . . . . . . . . never had a "worst" motorcycle. Like sex, they're ALL good, some just not so good as others.