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Whats the crappest bike you've ever owned and why?

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cooleronthecoast:
Yes its true, I'm getting bored, there's only so much DIY work around the house a bloke can do!   Also I have to admit I nicked the idea of this thread off another forum, but what the hell:

I have to say mine was a Honda  >:(  I had a CB350K4 twin back in the mid 70's.  Its one saving grace was the parallel twin engine sounded nice, even with the stock exhausts, but there wasn't much else to write home about as I recall.  It was gutless and slow, the handling wasn't great either, but perhaps if I'd treated it to some decent rear shocks it might have been better, but I suppose it was a reliable old steed and it never let me down.  I wasn't sad to see the back of it when I saved up enough drinking vouchers from my Apprentice wages to buy a CB400/4. 

Andrew-S:
This bloody thing, it was loud, smokey, smelly and kept firing the baffles out of the spanners, apart from that it was great. :o I bought it in the summer of 84 and didn't keep it long. Thing is, these are worth good money these days....

bobv7:
Velocette Vogue. I bought this simply because I was riding locally to work and only sometimes into town plus I didn't need to wear leathers for that. It mainly leaked water, a lot, even after I changed both cylinder head gaskets (twice) and sometimes it just wouldn't fire up for no apparent reason. It broke down on my way to work on a hill and my sister went and got it home freewheeling all the way! Gave up and sold it to a Velo dealer in East Sheen as a non runner. A year later I bought a CB175 and happiness was restored. :D

Lobo:
...mine was a CB250G5 (Green). The outgoing bike was a Suzuki A100, and in my wee brain I expected 2.5 x the performance & fun. What I got was about 1.05 the performance and abouts 0.95 the fun.

But hey, happy days....

(& the more observant amongst us might be querying why I’ve not nominated the Moto Guzzi Griso 😂.)

Green1:
I will have to nominate my old Triumph Speed four Great looking and handling bike but build quality was shocking.
It leaked like a 70's Triumph needing a new rockercover and sump gasket, the wiring harness rubbed through on the mono shock bolt, It went through 2 rectifiers, The rubber hoses perished, Swarf in the head race bearings from new and the alarm imobalizer was forever playing up. Far to many problems in 13000 miles

Oh and Triumph dealers are stuck up unhelpfull arseholes

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