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RedStormV · Post by **RedStormV** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 6:57 pm

Tut!

Stevie!!!!!!

LSM - I can confirm they could be locked up. Mate of mine managed it much to his cost, was a 'special' too - fancy paint job and full fairing. Plastics were expensive in those days too.

They were and still are, a total pile of sluggish sheeeeeeiiittttte!

LotusSevenMan · Post by **LotusSevenMan** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 7:13 pm

RSV

I did have the starting problem called "the white lead fault" where it might go one time then not start the next. Thought is was gonna cost me a fortune, but the main Honda dealer got the new part in and all I had to pay for was the labour. Not bad as the bike was four years old and the only service it'd ever had by an official dealer was the 600 miles one!!
Good customer service from Honda I thought.

Jaglifter · Post by **Jaglifter** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 8:33 am

Bought my son an NSR 125 about 15 years ago. Total rubbish. When it siezed for the second time, swapped it for a TZR 125 from George Whites. I think they put it staight into the skip!

marravtr · Post by **marravtr** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 10:08 am

i went mental a few yrs back and bought a kawasaki vn1500

i loved that bike sooo much that i kept it an amazing 2 weeks

biggest pile of shite ive evey rode apart from wife 1

Beamish · Post by **Beamish** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 12:27 pm

Jaglifter wrote:Bought my son an NSR 125 about 15 years ago. Total rubbish. When it siezed for the second time, swapped it for a TZR 125 from George Whites. I think they put it staight into the skip!

No! it wasnt this one was it?

LotusSevenMan · Post by **LotusSevenMan** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 7:21 am

Beamish.

So it was YOU trawling the skips back then eh?????

Bluefox · Post by **Bluefox** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 7:12 pm

I had a '93 plate XT600,

when you eventually got to about 85 on it,it would shake it's head like

screaming banshee,no matter how hard you held on it was no use,i tried to ride through it,tried gripping tighter it was like a rodeo ride,

didn't try & sort it,scared me to much glad to get rid of it

Post by **firestorm996** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 8:27 pm

It does seem to be that you have to try quite hard these days to get a truly bad bike - or buy italian!

LotusSevenMan · Post by **LotusSevenMan** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 9:56 pm

My 748 has just stuck its pipes up at you FS996

I'm afraid I can't take the opinion of a man with a Buell seriously..................

slot · Post by **slot** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 8:23 pm

My worst bike was a grey import, Suzuki RG250 Walter Wolf

It went well (felt like it at 19) but had to rebuild it more than fill it with 2 stroke oil

Dave

tony.mon · Post by **tony.mon** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 8:26 pm

Worst bike- any bike I have that breaks.
I get so humpy with them. Storm's dropped CCT's twice now, so it's heading up the list.
mind you, I thrash it everywhere and use it eveery day, all weathers, so to be fair....

Bets buke?
A whole load of Honda CB125's, I sued to buy a couple of spare engines and swap tehm out once I'd wrecked them, usually by siezing or burning a hole in the piston.
I'd been banned a few times ( never mind what for) and these were cheap to insure.

Fitted straight-through pipe, 42m speedway air filter worm-clipped down to the 22mm carb, lots of rejetting (even had an Amal on one) and altering timing, high-compression piston (1/4 of a 500/4 kit- Parks in Lewisham used to break kits for me as I was there so often!

Lots of fettling, workshop time and seat-of-your-pants tuning and with a fair wind downhill they made about 70.

Still, got me to TT once, and loads of furthest-travelled awards at rallies, which was a laugh. Mad Sunday was a riot

bob the builder · Post by **bob the builder** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 3:14 pm

Kawasaki Z 400 J, 1981 model, Harris can, lime green paint.

Heap O sh1t, didn't handle, wouldn't idle...........a bloody death trap.

Then one day, realised the freakin' thing had been welded back together, and the carbs had been "modified".

Oooh...... how i shudder when i think of the speeds one attained on that piece of crap!!!!!

mozza71 · Post by **mozza71** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 6:08 pm

Kawasaki ZXR400 H'Reg.
bought it on a whim as i needed a bike to get to Oulton Park for the BSB Race.
Over heated and boiled over at the circuit, then after a blast around the cat and fiddle found out the frame was split at the headstock !!!!!!
needless to say sold it the following day for Â£400

other than that all mine have been great.

adfski · Post by **adfski** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 8:21 pm

Been lucky in my short biking career! (about 7-8 years now)

NTV 650 Brilliant first bike

XJR 1300 Awsome and comfy

The old storm, Still love it!

What the hell will I do in a couple of years when I have a few quid to spend on a newer bike?

There just aren't any twins around that I want. SP, Aprilia or ducati! We need a storm replacement!

Stratman · Post by **Stratman** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 9:51 pm

My worst bike was a grey import, Suzuki RG250 Walter Wolf

My son had one of those. It kept blowing up too!