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Mine has to be a CCM scrambler thing I tried once from a mate of @G.P and @IanB

It was so so bad it defied words!

I honestly thought it was going to kill me.

That said, that BMW R1200 wasn't much better last week, I am still not convinced there isn't something wrong with it.

Pretty much everything I've ridden has had at least one redeeming feature.

So I'll go with the most unreliable bike I've ridden.

A Suzuki GP100 I used to commute when I was 17. it cost £300 and would nip up at least once a week (be fine once you let it cool down).

Probably a BSA A7 but for sheer disappointment (having bought it) BMW GS800. It's even boring to write about..zzzzzzzzzz...engine was the most characterless thing ever, ABS was operated by evil spirits. Meh.

KTM 950sm, hated the thing.

Suzuki Burgman. Sorry @maccecht

A TDM 850 my Dad test rode with a view to buying. He bought it home for me to try as he didn't think it was right. It lasted about 1/2 mile before I came back. It rode like it was bent in the middle. But that's just that one example I hope.

Other than that....Ducati 1000SS. Just rode odd

Supermofo wrote: Fri Dec 24, 2021 10:36 pm A TDM 850 my Dad test rode with a view to buying. He bought it home for me to try as he didn't think it was right. It lasted about 1/2 mile before I came back. It rode like it was bent in the middle. But that's just that one example I hope.

Actually, one of my favourite bikes was my first TDM850 and one of the worst was the TDM850 that replaced the first one when I killed it.

Wasn't Merv our resident expert on these? Wonder if he's still kicking about in the world?

wull wrote: Fri Dec 24, 2021 10:13 pm KTM 950sm, hated the thing.

Really? What didn’t you like about it?

dern wrote: Fri Dec 24, 2021 10:59 pm

wull wrote: Fri Dec 24, 2021 10:13 pm KTM 950sm, hated the thing.

Really? What didn’t you like about it?

Yeah, I rode one once and it was brilliant. I didn't buy one because I'd have been dead or in prison within 6 months.

KungFooBob wrote: Fri Dec 24, 2021 11:01 pm

dern wrote: Fri Dec 24, 2021 10:59 pm

wull wrote: Fri Dec 24, 2021 10:13 pm KTM 950sm, hated the thing.

Really? What didn’t you like about it?

Yeah, I rode one once and it was brilliant. I didn't buy one because I'd have been dead or in prison within 6 months.

I’ve got one. It’s pretty sketchy but hilarious at the same time.

Just not my kind of thing, dead or in prison

Honda blackbird. Bought it thinking it would be amazing but was disappointed. Steered slowly and felt bus like. Dropped the front, lifted the back and put stronger springs in and was better but still not great. Sold it soon after.

Heather Wallace. Munter gave crabs.

Felix wrote: Fri Dec 24, 2021 11:55 pm Heather Wallace. Munter gave crabs.

Ha ha

1980 Yamaha SR250, slow, shit handling, and just to top it off, rubber mounted handlebars.

CCM Spitfire (if that's what it was), was like trying to ride a road-drill mounted in a bmx frame.

Once had a FZR400 presented for MOT when i was working in a bike shop, i was told to ride it to the MOT center and turned around after 100 yards..... The steering head bearings were so shot it actually wouldn't steer. Fuck knows how the owner actually got it to the shop in the first place.

weeksy wrote: Fri Dec 24, 2021 9:40 pm That said, that BMW R1200 wasn't much better last week, I am still not convinced there isn't something wrong with it.

Wasn't the concensus that the tyre pressures were probably too low and causing the handling problems?


Anyway, back OT, two: a Honda 125 trials bike with a bent frame and my sister's Twiggymobile Honda 50.

The 50 was not only horrible but scary too - going along the A30 at 28mph with artics thundering by.

I had a Slingshot GSXR750 that did that over winter (the bearings rusted up in a garage) I didn't know until I got the first roundabout, it wasn't that bad to ride once you got to a reasonable speed, I had to ride it to the dealers to get the bearings changed.