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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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Tim-That CX Guy said:
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.
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LOL oh man. That just made my night. :rofl:rofl:rofl
 
I had a Yamaha SR400 for a couple years that I didn't like so well at the time. I was happy just to have a bike to ride, but would have preferred something with more cylinders. The thing vibrated the handlebars like crazy.
I think a newer one in nicer condition could have been a little better.
 
Older Japanese cruisers were nothing special. Although I'd be open owning a modern one if improved. Easier on you license.
 
Flash back to 1974: Older Vespa. My buddy wanted to trade and ride my brother's CB350 ( a REAL motorcycle). His vespa had a twist grip 3 speed shifter and those small wheels. I was sure I was going to die before the ride was over. The climax was him dropping my brothers bike in a parking lot at the end of the ride...He pretty much got back on his Vespa and motored away:twofinger
DT
 
Not really. I can have fun on a moped.

I wanted to get into Harley's so I did try renting them many times. Dyna's, Sportsters, V-rod, etc... big slow, heavy...they just pissed me off. After a while I discovered that you just cruis on them and they weren't so bad. But for the money, I think they suck. If I wanted a cruiser, I'd get a metric bike. Probably a V-Max....lol!
 
Oh hell yeah...
Butt ugly too! :barf

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Nemo Brinker said:
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.
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Didn't you get the memo; the R1200GS iz the best bike of all time!!! :rofl

zeroG said:
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.
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I actually liked the '02 Road King I rode, wuz really suprised 'how it handled fer sucha big sled. If'n I wuz a rich man (Instead of a dirt poor luzer) I'd like one as a 4th or 5th bike. :thumbup
 
I can't believe two-stroke dirt bikes were disparaged, my CR500 was better than pizza and sex! :wow

Most of the bikes I ended up buying I liked but I did have a love/hate relationship with a few. Most recently a Ducati Streetfighter, my best day with that bike was the day I bought it and the day I sold it.

But the Fatboy I rented tops my list of bikes I didn't like.
 
My grandchildren's other grandfather has a straight pipe Harley that has been lowered so that you can barely turn it without scraping something. I didn't like that one very much.

It's this one:
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Air-Head Beemer (when I found a bunch of Japanese sport riders to hang out with). Olden days with drum front brakes and a four speed.

Didn't know just how out of whack I was until I got strafed by the entire crowd and then couldn't catch up.

Sold it and eventually moved into Honda's barn.
 
I've owned no less than 14 bikes since I started riding in 1982.
There were a few I did not like.
Usually it was because it was a poorly running bike that I should not have purchased in the first place.
 
99 Ducati 900SS. POS, awful nad busting tank shape, wouldn't hold a line for shit, horrible gearbox. Sounded magnificent, but one ride and I was sold - on buying a different bike.
 
TheRiddler said:
TLR. Heavy as hell for a sportbike, crappy rear shock.
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If you would of put street fighter handle bars on it, so Ya sat right for the street...It wouldn't be feeling heavy..the only problem Ya had is sitting wrong Ya had no body leverage.

And the Rotory damper wasn't any problem on the street...You just didn't adjust it...

Or are ya talkin track?
 
ScottRNelson said:
My grandchildren's other grandfather has a straight pipe Harley that has been lowered so that you can barely turn it without scraping something. I didn't like that one very much.

It's this one:
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You can see that riders IQ written all over him..
Might want to blame the owner first, bike second.
 
Yes.

About 27 years ago I traded bikes for a day with my Brother. I had a 1982 Kawi KZ600.

My Brother had a Honda CB750 with a Windjammer fairing. I hated his bike. I made the mistake of going over the Dumbarton Bridge with it, and it felt like the wind was pushing that fairing around like a sail.
 
Ninja 1000 - Felt like I was sitting on a 2x4 that was slanted down in front. A new seat could probably fix that but ...... yeah not comfortable at all and I could not see doing 20 miles on it much less 200.
 
TBH I haven't ridden that many other bikes, but I'm not a fan of sportbikes. I've ridden my friend's GSXR-750, yea it's ridiculously quick and handles really well but the aggressive rear set position is just so uncomfortable. Plus it feels kind of top heavy and unstable at low speeds. I prefer a standard seating position :dunno
 
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