KX Riders
General => In General... => Topic started by: n2682 on March 13, 2008, 02:17:27 PM
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im just curious as to what's the worst bikes everyone has owned ive had some real winners in my collection over the years.
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1980 KX420. I was making my pro MX debut on a fully sponsored bike. Couldn't finish a race, broke tripple clamps, frames, then almost everything in the tranny. Used the practise bike they gave me as a parts bike. Somehow they screwed up on the parts and many were not available in Canada. THe shift drum (yes I broke a shift drum) had to come from Japan. Took 6 months. Ugh...................nuf said.
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hodaka super rat.....made lots of niose sounded fast but a nieghbor kid got a new 1979 yz 80 and blew my doors off
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year? the dirt bike kid yz80. that thing was always blown up just like most 80's. but it was fairly new (less than 1 year it was current model) and it had the water pump, stator, rod, and the case sealing leak, costing 3 top ends before it was found. had it 1-1/2 years.
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95 KTM250EXC. Didnt turn, had no power compared to the CR250 I was racing before it, the suspension sucked, the Marzochi forks leaked the 1st time out, it blew up 5 months after I bought it, both rims started to corrode and big, sharp flakes of aluminum would puncture my tubes. 6 months later I bought a new CR250.
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defineately the Hodaka Combat Wombat, they had the worst shifting mechanism in the world, along with a weak crank.
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cr500
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all my bikes growing up where junk. i rode a honda 70 for a while the tank would flap around ( don't think it was bolted down). the shocks would bottom anytime you would hit anything. i thought bump starting was the normal way to start a motorcycle for a long time.
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I'd say most XR series bikes I've owned, my old '89 CR250 was junk.
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cr500
this was too my worst nightmare!!!!
had the f*cker for two months ,couldn,t get it fired ....d*mn thing.
try all the known methodes i,ve asked to a cr5 freak
all things were good spark / jetting etc...
only if dragged after a car it would fire up
this is a common issue on the pr? 90 honda btw :|
lots and lots of story,s simular like mine are on the net about it.
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id have to say mine was also a 95 ktm 250 i rebuilt it enough times in one summer i could of bought a brand new bike but i was determined to make it right 900 bucks a pop to get cylinder redone kept finding what looked like needle bearings wedged ontop of piston and in the cylinder wall had entire motor apart 3 times and found no bad bearings go figure dunno but that bike was a pos
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luckely for me is i could sell that cr5 stayin equal,
nothing gained or lost.
i was happy to sell it and the new owner sold it quite soon afterwards,
guess its not going to find a decent home :|
and for that 250 ktm i would give a hint :-P :lol:
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I like that guy beating the KTM with a bat! You should change the guy to green!
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i wish i could !!
but i,m no ICT dude :|
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87 CR250
What a piece of crap that bike was. I was so friggin broke at the time I could barely buy plugs for the thing. It had a mind of it's own. It would run when it wanted to run. I'd have to start the bike at home in my driveway, if it ran I would load it on the trailer (running) and drive to the pit. If it didn't run, there was no riding that day.
LOL - I just remembered....that CR had a Roost Boost on it when I bought it. Remember those things? :-D
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I have always had good luck with bikes. My 1995 yamaha blaster, (when i was 9) went through at least 1 piston every ride, but we took the oil pump off and that helped a lot. My 97 banshee frame broke a few times, they don't like the jumps much.
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Dunno if I hated it... but that first Hodaka I learned on... I think my StepDad probably should have replaced the spark plug it had rather than repeated cleaning it in the sand-blaster thingy... it was either that... or perhaps the carb maybe needed cleaning at first?... whatever the reason... on some of those first trips out to the dez I'd have to kick that thing a bazillion times.
One thing about that though.... real d**n quick I learned how NOT to kill it when starting out from a dead stop and letting the clutch out.
He used to make me do 15 starts-and-stops in a row without killing the bike.... before I would be allowed to go ahead and just ride. It's good training for tuning-in your clutch hand though.
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yamaha xs650 80 something. stator, carbs, electrical...etc, etc, etc....HATED IT!!!!!
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the worst bike was the 500 aluminum frame conversion I bought from motor sports products and service aka mps the fabrication and assembly looked like it came from a high school wood shop the owner told me he personaly went through the motor and installed a new piston and rings when I couldent get the motor to run george the owner of mps told me I bought a used bike and it was as is I have completely rebuilt the bike and now its bad to the bone!! do your self a favor stay away from mps and george
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the worst bike was the 500 aluminum frame conversion I bought from motor sports products and service aka mps the fabrication and assembly looked like it came from a high school wood shop the owner told me he personaly went through the motor and installed a new piston and rings when I couldent get the motor to run george the owner of mps told me I bought a used bike and it was as is I have completely rebuilt the bike and now its bad to the bone!! do your self a favor stay away from mps and george
Are you the guy with the MPS pipe on Ebay? It's to bad you had such a bad experience, maybe in hindsight the 11k for a brand new Service Kawasaki isn't half bad.
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Dunno if I hated it... but that first Hodaka I learned on... I think my StepDad probably should have replaced the spark plug it had rather than repeated cleaning it in the sand-blaster thingy... it was either that... or perhaps the carb maybe needed cleaning at first?... whatever the reason... on some of those first trips out to the dez I'd have to kick that thing a bazillion times.
One thing about that though.... real d**n quick I learned how NOT to kill it when starting out from a dead stop and letting the clutch out.
He used to make me do 15 starts-and-stops in a row without killing the bike.... before I would be allowed to go ahead and just ride. It's good training for tuning-in your clutch hand though.
i think i had the same junk hodaka super rat when i was a kid
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Mine is...
175cc street CZ....
Swear it was built by a 12 year old slave kid with a rat tail file and a hammer...
(crank pin for the flywheel is straight drilled (with god knows what) and has a broke off piece of metal something as a keyway... (but straight, not keyway)...
the stator system looks like its off an old tank.. Bar switches (headlight) etc. look like they are cold war plane surpluss
the "fuel" pickup in the tank... is welded in WAY too high... it cant pick up the last 1/4 tank..
Picked it up to ride back and forth to work (I like to ride a different bike to work every day of the week/month)..
Needless to say I pushed it home MULTIPLE times.
only had 1100 original miles on it when I got it.. (original tires, grips etc etc)...
WHAT A PILE..
Sold it to fund My R1100RS BMW....
A funny part of me misses its quirkiness... Its like a Kid gone wrong.. you want to make them better... even though you cant..
(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a289/Motorrad/triumph3.jpg)
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The worst bike i ever had was a yamaha IT490 i was 15 at the time it really sucked :-o
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My Old 1982 Yamaha XT200. worst bike i ever had suspension was destroyed it just bounced and bounced. it did start up first kick though. it was a fourstroke and still fouled plugs because it smoked so bad. me and buddys would ride together and i would have to take a backpack full of oil quarts. one day riding 2nd gear blew out. rode it for 4 months after that then my young cousin bought it off me for 90 bucks. then throttle cable snapped so he just pulled on the cable looped around his finger. he had it for about 4 months then sold it for like 100 bucks to 2 guys wanting to rebuild it. havent seen it since lol
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BUMP.
still my CZ...
Oscar?
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believe it or not I've never had a bike that I would consider the worst......I've always been very careful about the bikes I've purchased........
Amazingly the worst and best bike I've ever owned is the same bike........
My 98 KX500 was the worst bike I've ever owned when I first bought it and since the rebuild it is the best bike I've ever owned.
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I think the correct term for me is not "the worst bike" but "the worst luck" with a bike, and that would be hands down my '84 KX125 . The bike was raced expert hard, and parked wet. I bought the bike for $500 back in '86 with a cracked and booger welded frame (an issue with the '84's), a bent crank, and a warped PSI cylinder and head, and a broken front engine case frame mount. All this I systematically found out through blowing the engine, and re-cracking the frame every Sunday... so maybe with proper previous maintenence my KX would have been better, but I did hear other racers comments the '84 was a "clam rocket" as one racer commented to me back in the day.. LOL
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84 Kawasaki Tecate, that thing was a pile!!!!!!!
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all kind of cz-bikes... :evil:
i had a 89 cz125. and i seen all kind of damages on all the other cz´s: broken con rods, broken pistons broken frames, broken shocks...
once i decided to race in vintage class, i said to my own : never a cz again..! :-D
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all kind of cz-bikes... :evil:
i had a 89 cz125. and i seen all kind of damages on all the other cz´s: broken con rods, broken pistons broken frames, broken shocks...
once i decided to race in vintage class, i said to my own : never a cz again..! :-D
Yep. That's what bultaco's and husqvarnas are for!
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all kind of cz-bikes... :evil:
i had a 89 cz125. and i seen all kind of damages on all the other cz´s: broken con rods, broken pistons broken frames, broken shocks...
once i decided to race in vintage class, i said to my own : never a cz again..! :-D
Yep. That's what bultaco's and husqvarnas are for!
and I'll never forget the bad cz brakes
sometimes they worked well and sometimes from one moment to the other, there was nothing to slow down. and then once it went straight through the hedge with me and I broke my left leg. I never rode the cz again and switched to a 89 KX125.
that was a difference as between a tractor and a mercedes car. :-D :-D
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first let me say that no bike could ever be the worst, because when it was running I had some of the greatest times. The bike that was the most trouble was a I think 1974 Hodaka 125 Combat Wombat. The gear selector was a ball receiver mechanism and if not adjusted right it would always be in nuetral, and pistons were eaten like candy, good thing they were only $10
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I cant believe i'm gonna say this ( the embarassment) my first bike as a kid was the worst, it was one of those rigid framed things with wheel barrow wheels a lawn mower motor with a centrifugal clutch and a bent peice of metal over the spark plug for a kill switch , dont get me wrong it only needed the clutch to be changed once ina blue moon. but i had to ride this thing for years before the old man bought me another bike ( yz125D) every other 12 year old was riding rm80's, i was the only one who had to provide my own gear shift sound effects. oh and i had to wear a pudding bowl helmet as well.
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84 Kawasaki Tecate, that thing was a pile!!!!!!!
I take offense! LMAO, they're quirky, but mine has been great.
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LOL there was 2 of them a 1985 yz125 first year of the red and white and a IT490 two of the worst bikes I ever had uuufffff .
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125 Parilla Scrambler. Ex Flat Tracker. Very rare blue and silver color. It must have had an early GPS built in because any time I got more then a mile from the house (on trails) it would die and not start until I had pushed it all the way back and into the yard. Put a lot of miles on it though. It was my first real motorcycle (12?) and purchased with my own money.