Two wheels good.

[paulplom]

Talking of shit bikes. Fb memory.
It's over a year since I had my C90s ffs.

[Hooli]

Anyone else want to confess to owning a really bad bike that they liked riding?

My first bike was a Chinese gy125, honda xr125 copy thing. It was painfully slow and no brakes. But I loved it for the 13 days I used it before my test.

[brandersnatch]

My MZ TS250 four speed. By all that’s sensible a horrible bike bit I liked it.

[xtriple]

Not actually owned but I had it for a LONG time. I had a CB900 FZ that buggered its little ends (seriously) and I was given a Z400 twin as a loaner while they acquired the parts and rebuilt the bloody Honda.

The Z was an utter shed: matt black paint everywhere, ratty and loud 2-1 exhaust of very obscure manufacture and utterly horrible to look at. I had to ride it through the depths of a southwest winter (so wet but bugger all really) and I fell in love with the little sod. I even taught my then-girlfriend to ride it and when the Honda was finally fixed (incidentally, the fastest CB900 I have ever known and I've known/had a few) I tried to buy the Kawasaki and they wouldn't sell me the sod as it was too useful!

[NigelBickle]

I’ve a cd175. Well one 73 & an early sloper I. Rebuilding. Do they count?

Or a couple of Voskhods? No- don’t ask

[Jerzy Woking]

Not actually owned but I had it for a LONG time. I had a CB900 FZ that buggered its little ends (seriously) and I was given a Z400 twin as a loaner while they acquired the parts and rebuilt the bloody Honda.

The Z was an utter shed: matt black paint everywhere, ratty and loud 2-1 exhaust of very obscure manufacture and utterly horrible to look at. I had to ride it through the depths of a southwest winter (so wet but bugger all really) and I fell in love with the little sod. I even taught my then-girlfriend to ride it and when the Honda was finally fixed (incidentally, the fastest CB900 I have ever known and I've known/had a few) I tried to buy the Kawasaki and they wouldn't sell me the sod as it was too useful!

Since Henry Cole made a bobber out of a Z400 a few years ago, they became popular. For a while at least.

[Jerzy Woking]

I’ve a cd175. Well one 73 & an early sloper I. Rebuilding. Do they count?

Or a couple of Voskhods? No- don’t ask

I liked my blue CD175, commuted 30 miles a day on it through a winter. Come spring the exhausts had completely disintegrated, and the rear mudguard was held on by the paint.
Can't remember what happened to it.

I was rather envious of my brother who had a sloper CD175. It felt like it revved to 15,000 rpm, and was quicker that my K1 CB250.

You can keep your Voskhod fetish to yourself, I won't go there.....

[Warren t claim]

Didn't Suzuki try and sell a sporty GSX500 about 15 years ago?

[DodgeRover]

Mine was three years old when I bought it so it was a bit shinier than that. I traded it in for what I paid for it for a TRX 850.

Yeah, I could pick them.

I like those....

[DodgeRover]

I also owned a 250 CZ Custom. Nearly 40 years after I first became aware they were absolute shite.

But I liked riding it. No power, no brakes, premixing the fuel so that a really thick 2 stroke smog followed me everywhere. Couldn't get mine to do this either, no matter how much I tried:

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Anyone else want to confess to owning a really bad bike that they liked riding?

I've a strange urge to own one of the last CZ MX bikes, they are awful but 'special'