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RE: Worst bike you have rode - 10/15/2007 10:25:03 AM
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Jaybird180
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First Twin Sportbike I ever rode; tainted my perception of all twins. I had fits on the TL-1000.
Getting a chance to ride an RC-51 straigtened me out...most fun EVER on two wheels.
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RE: Worst bike you have rode - 10/15/2007 10:54:47 AM
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Flightmedic954
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an '82 HD Roadster 12yrs ago
trying to hotrod it I threw the chain & cracked the case, let it sit in the yard for a year,
then sold it for $4500 to the 1st person that looked @ it after placing an ad
& I had people calling, pissed @ me for selling it too quick
dumb ass'
I got more attention on that POS then any other bike
I still dont understand
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RE: Worst bike you have rode - 10/16/2007 6:49:46 PM
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dinez74
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Kawasaki Voyager... I exchanged with my buddy during a convoy trip in Thailand somewhere around 2004. And I promise to him I'll never touch the bike again.... he sold it off eventually.. hahaha
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RE: Worst bike you have rode - 10/16/2007 9:30:09 PM
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richhowerton
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My buddy has a HD dyna Lowridder and that is a freeken HOG loud, makes your BAL#%@ hurt, no power, corners like a wet rag.
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RE: Worst bike you have rode - 10/17/2007 12:02:55 PM
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Lrn2Go
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I look back at my motorcycle riding history, and I've not had a bike I really hated. I mean... maybe it's because all the bikes I've had out on the road have been been mostly new, or Honda's. I would say I wasn't a huge fan of my buddies Katana... but it wasn't horrible as long as he had it (before he totaled it in his neighborhood... which was hillarious). It was pretty heavy, but it wasn't overly uncomfortable to ride on. I know my dad really wanted a HD sportster for a long time... then when he was out looking at bikes with another family member, he found a used one that they let him testdrive. After that, he wasn't impressed with them at all. (he'd gotten magazines and pamplets and all kinds of things, really gearing up to get one) That one 10 minute ride changed his whole view and he went with a Kawasaki Meanstreak. I'm not anti-HD, but you gotta be dedicated to lay on that kinda cash.
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RE: Worst bike you have rode - 10/18/2007 7:03:12 AM
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Bumble Bee
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ORIGINAL: Lrn2Go
I look back at my motorcycle riding history, and I've not had a bike I really hated. I mean... maybe it's because all the bikes I've had out on the road have been been mostly new, or Honda's. I would say I wasn't a huge fan of my buddies Katana... but it wasn't horrible as long as he had it (before he totaled it in his neighborhood... which was hillarious). It was pretty heavy, but it wasn't overly uncomfortable to ride on. I know my dad really wanted a HD sportster for a long time... then when he was out looking at bikes with another family member, he found a used one that they let him testdrive. After that, he wasn't impressed with them at all. (he'd gotten magazines and pamplets and all kinds of things, really gearing up to get one) That one 10 minute ride changed his whole view and he went with a Kawasaki Meanstreak. I'm not anti-HD, but you gotta be dedicated to lay on that kinda cash.
I know how your dad feels. I was going to buy a nice ass 2000 Sportster 883 for a damn good price and then i rode it for about 3 min's and I was done and went the next day and got my F4. I'm a sport bike guy and so the F4 works better for me, but that HD was just top heavy and felt all worng to me. I do not like to ride with my feet out in front of me like that.
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RE: Worst bike you have rode - 10/18/2007 9:40:02 AM
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Jaybird180
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ORIGINAL: Bumble Bee
......just top heavy and felt all worng to me. I do not like to ride with my feet out in front of me like that.
Feels retarded.
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RE: Worst bike you have rode - 10/21/2007 3:33:30 PM
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f3racer
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it would be a tie between my old 84 interceptor 250, and my f3 streetfighter when i 1st got it put together. my f3 has some decent motorwork to it. i wanted it to wheelie easy so went against my dads advice (as most of us do) and bought a -2 tooth front sprocket. it was tuned really rich by a race shop. tuned for full throttle most of the time. but it was running around 109 hp at the rear. riding it in traffic started to carb up the plugs so you had to stop at the light and rev the shit out of it until it cleared. but if you were riding slow and it started to bog you needed to find an open lane and wack the throttle open. i found out the hard way that the -2 sprocket was a mistake. i pulled around a car to open it up and clear the motor. i wacked the throttle and it bogged a bit and then slowly it cleared and then WHAM the motor instantly came alive, in 1st gear the front end skyrocketed, i ahd to quickly shift to 2nd but it didnt do much help as the front kept coming up, 3rd, 4th, and then 5th with the front in the air, until i ran out of revs. the front end slammed down hard when i hit the limiter. then i shifted to 6th. i tried to ride the bike home with out doing this again but it did it 3 more times unpredictably before i could get a slight handle on it. i took the bike to another shop and had it re-tuned, making just slightly under 108 hp but waaaaaay more ridable. that bike scared me as bad as my 1st experience with a kawasaki h2 750 triple 2 stroke. the 2 stroke was more predictable.
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RE: Worst bike you have rode - 10/22/2007 9:44:39 AM
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Jaybird180
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At least you had the presence of mind to shift and not sh*t.
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RE: Worst bike you have rode - 10/24/2007 8:48:06 AM
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Blazincaucasian17
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I rode my friends 01 R6 and hated it, probably because he does not take care of it but the brakes sucked, and just not comfortable for me
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RE: Worst bike you have rode - 10/24/2007 9:23:39 AM
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woodyracing
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oh this one is easy for me, my very first bike. It was a Kawasaki KE100, just a little two stroke dual sport. Talked my dad into buying it for me when I was 12. Bought brand new from local Kawi dealership and it worked about 30 minutes before we had to take it into the shop. Basically they told us that it wouldn't run right but they had no idea why. They flushed the fuel and all and replaced it, checked out the carbs, etc to make sure the premix stuff was done right but that wasn't the problem, the damn thing just wouldn't run right. For some reason the batteries for that damn thing were garbage, if you let it sit for more than a day without riding it, the battery would need to be charged up. After about 50 miles stuff started falling apart. Before long the exhaust fell off (I dropped it once but on the other side and it was kept in a garage)
honestly I didn't know such a POS bike could be made, it was ridiculous and the Kawi shop could never figure out what was wrong with it. We had to take it back to them about 20 times in the 400 miles total I put on the bike just riding up and down the roads in my neighborhood (I was never interested in the off-road thing). Looking back, if we had known about mini-motards, pocketbikes, or 125 GP bikes my life probably would have been much different but honestly that kind of thing doesn't really exist around here so the only road-going motorcycle we found for a 12 year old was that crappy little dual sport.
That entire experience has made me pretty much anti-kawasaki. It didn't help, though, that my dads fairly new kawi cruiser just had to have $1400 worth of repair work because of a couple bad gaskets in the fuel system and the only guy a ride with that has a Kawi has been having some really stupid problems with his brand new ZZR after just 1,000 miles. I've had some problems with my F4i (the only other bike I've ever had any problems with) but that was after 10,000 miles with about 6,000 of those being pure torture and several crashes, along with my ghetto rigging style of repair and electrical work, most of the problems being ones I casued anyway.
I've had some other bikes that some people seem to dislike, my GS500 is actually a blast (it doesn't run at the moment but its almost older than I am and sat for quite a few years). I love lightweight bikes and this one has some good tires on it so it was a lot of fun to just wring its neck! good stuff. I race an SV650 and it seems a lot of people treat the SV like a beginners bike but I think I would enjoy this bike on the street. Its got an amazing seat and while its only about 75-80 HP, its still a blast to ride and again, you really have to wring its neck to go fast which makes it fun to me.
I've ridden plenty of "better" bikes than my F4i and 600RR like the 07 R6, ZX-10, GSX-Rs, 07 RR, etc but IMO its the bike you feel most comfortable on that is the most fun and for me thats the F4i. On the street you really can't push any of these bikes to their limits anyway and most people that say bikes like the F4i aren't "fast" just haven't learned how to rev the bike properly. Seems like on the 1000s you can't even rev first gear very far before your breaking every speed limit in the state.
anyway, here is a pic of that stupid POS little kawi that I still hate with a passion to this day:
< Message edited by woodyracing -- 10/24/2007 9:33:21 AM >
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RE: Worst bike you have rode - 10/24/2007 9:33:31 AM
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fuze
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2006 honda shadow vlx lol... my bike could beat that thing with first gear alone, and its heavy and low. Feet stretched way ahead of me, huge rake on the front forks.. cruisers just suck to ride.
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RE: Worst bike you have rode - 10/24/2007 9:48:22 AM
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Jaybird180
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ORIGINAL: woodyracing
anyway, here is a pic of that stupid POS little kawi that I still hate with a passion to this day:
HA ha. A little pent up frustration, have we?
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