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Have you ever ridden a motorcycle you DIDN'T like?

Have you ever disliked a bike you rode?

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I've only ridden a handful of different bikes. I've yet to ride one that I didn't like.

What say you, barfers? Have you ever ridden a bike and thought, "what a piece of rubbish"? If so, what was it and what didn't you like?
 
No.

I've ridden bikes that I've thought - hmm this does not suit my needs - I don't think I'd ever get one, but every bike I have enjoyed in some way.

Scoot Networks electric gutless scooter, dirtbikes, singles, twins, triples, 600s, litrebikes, a Harley Dyna, and pretty much everything in between. I am lucky to have a great friend that cycles through bikes regularly and lets me try them all out :).
 
I have enjoyed every bike I have ever ridden. Some, because of the ergonomics were not for me but fun none the less.:ride
 
I've taken brief trips on a variety of bikes, and while I was always glad to be on 2 wheels, I didn't much like the ungainliness of the BMW R1200GS I've ridden, to say nothing of every plodding large metric cruiser (Vulcans, Boulevards, et al.) I've set butt upon. The Harley XR1200 was kinda vaguely fun, but not in an I'd-ride-that way. I didn't care for the rattletrappy, cheap-feeling, peaky-motored older Japanese pseudo-sports like the EX500 and the Katana, but it's possible that the ones I rode were in such poor repair that it detracted from the experience.

For all that, it's just inherently fun to be on 2 wheels, though.
 
Yes, some bikes just suck. I wont list them here, the explanations get too long but there is a good reason some bikes don't stay in the stable too long.
 
Yamaha R-6.

After I got off the bike and my nuts finally dropped back out of my taint, I wondered why the hell the engineers gave the seat so much forward slope that even if you tap the front brakes with one finger, you slide forward and slam the tank with the jewels.

The only answers I could come up with is that:
A) Yamaha designed the bike for women and forgot to tell everybody.
or
B) Women designed the bike for some kind of evil sterilization plot. . .

because neither the Honda CBR or the Suzuki GSXR 600's have that kind of stupidity going on.
 
I got a Sportster for my wife. Jesus H. Christ, what a hunk of shit. 550 lbs, 45 HP. Really horrible brakes. No ground clearance at all, and the shocks would bottom out going into a driveway. Foot pegs are in the wrong place. I bet my wife didn't put 5 miles on it in a year, she started riding my Ducati instead. I probably put about 500. Not a pleasant bike.
 
Definitely yes. Although that said, if the choice was between that bike vs no bike, I'd still take on of those.
 
Harley V-Rod. I absolutely loved the motor, but it was one of the variants with an extreme cruiser seating position that I couldn't stand.
 
Yes. Rode a CB919F that just DIDN'T work for me. I was bummed because I liked the way the bike looked and the platform. But I couldn't not get comfortable. The owner is a BARFer and I came back, adjusted preload a few times and nothing helped.
 
TLR. Heavy as hell for a sportbike, crappy rear shock.
 
GxR, just not my type of bike

Any bike where the feet go forward, like a cruiser, just not comfortable either
 
Absolutely. I disliked every two-stroke dirtbike I ever rode.
But as far as streetbikes the two worse bikes I ever rode were both Harleys.
Back in 99' I rode a buddies 91' Sporster 883 that had a 1200 big bore on it.
Everything about that bike was as bad as it could be. It vibrated so horrendously it gave you tennis elbow and it would literally lose parts [like the headlight glass] while you rode it.
The clutch lever was suuuuper stiff the engine anemic, shifting gears was painful, the brakes were a bad joke and it was so loud it gave you the bad kind of goosebumps.
More recently earlier this year I also rode a 90's big twin [skinny front tire] that really made me look forward to getting off of it.
 
Where's the choice that says, "Bikes are like pizza and sex; all good, but some are better"?
 
Why don't you add that option amigo? :)
 
Done! :toothless
 
I didn't love the MV Agusta F3. I didn't like the throttle or the seizures. I've ridden triples I liked but it wasn't one of them. Sexy looking bike though and there are few stock exhausts that are prettier. I'd ride one again.
 
Every Hardley I've ever test ridden. Didn't like the Kawi 250r at first, but now it's the go to bike on the twisties. There are many others. Some bikes are just trash. Actually it's rare that I find a bike I like completely. Almost every MC I've every ridden is lacking in some area. What's the perfect bike? They haven't made it yet.
 
I rode a Honda Rebel, just to take my motorcycle license test a long time ago. That was really not a fun bike at all.
 
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