What’s The Most Boring/crap Bike You Have Owned?

BMW K1600 GTL, or something like that.

No soul. The most exciting thing that happened was getting a puncture and that happened at home. Totally boring.

 

I would say a Simson S50 - but it was my first "bike" so I thought it was great at the time.

The worst one I've ridden would be the RF900 - really disliked it. Had a test ride when I was looking for a new bike. It was less than a mile before I turned round and took it back. I felt like I was perched on top of it - like a balancing act - and the seat was hard and slippery.

 

I love my Street Triple and it's a lot of fun, but if I'm honest I have more fun with a spirited ride on my 790 Bonneville it's so rewarding

 

You hit the nail on the head. It did everything and did it really well. But I always knew it was going to do it and do it well every time I went out on it. I kept it for 3 months and got rid. The other thing with those is, I have never seen the point of having a radio on a bike wtf is all that about.

 

I've always enjoyed whatever motorbike i've had when younger to be honest, had a lot of cheap shitters never had the money to spend at that time so made do and had to mend lol.
But forgive me if this has been put forward by anyone before (as I'm not reading through this lot at the minute) but the very worst bike I've owned and the bike I always seen as going nowhere !!! was a -
Exercise bike !!!!
Sorry - I'll get my oversized coat and go now

 

You Feckin liar
You’ve NEVER been on an exercise bike

 

I totally agree marra therefore it was -
" The most boring crap bike I've ever owned " !!!!!
Feckin keep up mate, Makem or not your feckin slow boy

Its no good you coming on here in between bouts of painkillers and causing botha

 

That is so true about the Bonnie. My Goldwing checks all the boxes and may be the "best" bike I have ever owned, but the Bonnie just makes me feel something really special is going on when I ride her. There's no substitute for that, my friend.

 

Yamaha xv535 spent hours doing it up rode it twice in two years load of crap. Happy now with my 2004 T100 bonny original Hinckley love it!

 

The Bonnie is a brilliant bike. I am finding mine so much fun even if I am virtually standing still. This evening, after a scorching day here in Argyll I took my 790cc up for a wee run to the Rest and Be Thankful, round to the Dunoon road, down to St Catherines and then turned around and back home to Lochgoilhead via Hell's Glen. I didn't go faster than 70mph at any point on the virtually empty roads and actually, from the start of the Hell's Glen road back to my village (about eight carless miles) rarely went above thirty miles an hour and was often only doing around 10 to 15mph. Just enjoying the 'heartbeat' of the engine rumbling along in third gear and admiring the scenery in the evening sun.
Whether rattling along with the wind trying to remove me from the seat at 90+ mph to pootling along the road at 10mph the Bonnie is simply a ball to ride.

 

Apologies in advance to any tiger or scrambler owners... its a close call for me between a Tiger 800 XCA and a Scrambler 1200 XC. Just didn't excite me. Safe to say I'm not a fan of big front wheels and adventure bikes.
Having said that my bike history has been full of really good bikes so I've never really had a truly crap one! These 2 are just at the bottom of a good list for me.

 

I can honestly say that my worst bike was my first bike, a BSA Bantam (2-stroke 175cc) probably a mid 60's model (I can't actually remember the reg). Cost my dad £75 from a dealer, went at first but was a pig to start and only had 3 gears and didn't go too well. After 5 months I was glad when it got stolen.

 

My most boring bike was a 2007 HD Electra glide classic, had to tune it to make it go at first then , the dealer did a torque reduction recall and it ran like crap. after that it was a lost cause so I traded it in on a Rocket III fixed the boring and worst part right then and there.

 

Crap: Yamaha XV 550. Awful in every regard. What a mistake.
Boring: Suzuki 600 Bandit. Dull 4 cylinder built to a low budget.

 

Be easy to say my first bike, a Yamaha YB100 was crap, but it did me well and got me through my test, so that is forgiveable.

When working as a courier in the 80s, City Link provided us with new VT500s - they might have been a decent bike without all the fairing and luggage, but I couldn't stand waht that did for the balance - proper messed it up.

But the prize for most crap has to be the Meridan Tiger I briefly had that I don't think completed a journey without braking down. Fortuantely, the guy that sold it me was happy to buy it back for what I'd paid because he missed tinkering on it

DS

 

Plastic maggot (CX500), VT500 and then a teapot (GSX600 in yellow!) when courier riding in london.
ALL IN A ROW!!!!
It was even boring writing the names of them.......

 

Boring: ZX10 1988. Not the big step up I was expecting from the 1000RX it replaced.

Crap: A 1990 GSXR1100L I bought in 1992, the only road bike I've ever bought 2nd hand. I had one new in 1990 which was brilliant and fancied another one in '92 after 18months on a 1000 EXUP. The handling on the used one (14 months old) was rubbish. Had it worked on by Maxtons which helped but it still wasn't in the same league as the first one I had. Eventually found out the the front wheel was almost half an inch out of line with the rear despite no evidence of accident damage. That's all I could put it down to.
Dissappointing: Ducati 1198SP bought new in 2011. Bit of an impulse buy to be fair but was glad to get shut despite the big hit I took on resale.

 

+1 on the 350K4 but in my defence it replaced a 250K4 so seemed good at the time (wow, some trade up)! But at least they were cheap bikes to me.

My worst new purchase was a Harley 883 Sportster, just too small and not great at any distance, I probably regretted that buy within the first few weeks, I kept it a year and went up to a 1340 Harley which was great. But that 1340 got nicked within 12 months and it got replaced with a Triumph Daytona 1200 which was feckin brilliant!