Your five worst bikes

Well:

I have been known to piss people off but I'll say it once (and repeat it four more times):

1977 KZ1000A1
1977 KZ1000A1
1977 KZ1000A1
1977 KZ1000A1
1977 KZ1000A1

Bought it new in the fall of 1976...traded it in the fall of 1977...during that time, it ran for about two month cumulatively. Had a hairline crack in the cases...pissed oil everywhere...Kawasaki initially refused to warranty it but did so after seven months, then recalled the early 1000's because all the rubber bits on the cam chain adjusters were deteriorating in the oil = another month of downtime = time to trade. Now I own two more and one of them is every bit as troublesome as my first KZ1000A1...arrrgh! Thw other one I don't know yet as it remains a basket-case...but if I had to make a prediction... Turns out the first reviewers of the bike were correct...it is a flawed model:)

Post edited by: Mcdroid, at: 2007/08/11 08:57

Didn't own any of these, but my friends did and I had the extreme displeasure of working on them.

1. Honda VT500 v-twin Ascot. THE WORST carbs on any bike ever.

2. Yamaha V-twin Vision 750... or was it a 650? Who cares, it needed to be melted down into scrap. Just an all around pain in the ass with goofy plumbing everywhere. The usual host of weird ideas from Yamaha that make you scratch your head.

3. Any HD. See a pattern? The only thing I dislike more than working on V-twins is V-fours.

4. Any Honda V-four. Ughh...Please let me take a hammer to my skull!

5. Honda CB/CL 350 from any year. Yeah, there's a million of them out there and they are easy enough to work on, but they are cheap and all sorts of motor parts like to break. I've seen countless cam chains broken, broken con-rods sticking out the front of the motor, and missing gears.


Only five? Well, I could fill the entire page, but I'll stop complaining. Just give me any KZ, a 2-stroke Kaw, and maybe some sort of Suz GS.

Post edited by: loudhvx, at: 2007/08/11 13:17

Yamaha FJ1200

the HD Sprint

5. Honda CB/CL 350 from any year

Whoo-hoo! 3 out of 4 bikes are on the list!

Wait a minute, this is the worst bike list.:blink: :dry: :S

Oh well, atleast no one has listed my KZ750; yet .