Mines pretty easy, while my bike was erm poorly sick and just down right broken :o(
I had a GT1000 Ducatti as a hire bike (looked good so I thought as I needed a no wanted a naked bike same cc or bigger) but with a smallish seat for passenger and no grab rail/handle and a power delivery like an on off switch very small fuel tank was totally impractical for winter hacking, ok as a summertime plaything but far less practical as an every day bike as my trusty (erm sorry CB rusty) CB750
An old GT550 Kwacker I had would never run right. One day it would run fine and the next it would be the most god awful pile of shite around. Shame as it sounded brilliant and was super comfortable.
The other was a Suzuki RF900. Pile of shite from day one, not a patch on Honda build quality or reliability. It stopped when it liked rather than when lack of fuel dictated I needed too. Brakes were never brilliant, it warped discs and blew fork seals reguarly too. A better real world bike than a Fireblade but sadly it fell short on the critical issues.
Last but by no means least would be my old Harley Sportster. Never again, it cost me a fortune to have a van follow me everywhere to collect the bits that fell off!
I had a couple of GP100s Julie. Never let me down. Well ok, sometimes they did, well maybe a lot and they both rusted like ermmm, something that rusts quickly.
Unfortunately I crashed the first one, but by that time I'd blown it up a couple of times and done a couple of engine rebuilds. As such, knowing so much about them I bought another presuming that other bikes would break down as well, so may as well get one I know how to fix!
Actually I crashed the second one as well, but I crashed the first one 'properly'!! 40mph straight into the side of a Ford Capri, fly thirty feet through the air thinking you're dead then hit the ground and wish you were. Later on learn that you'd trashed your knees as they hit the handlebars on the way through.
Now, that's how to crash. Dropping it at low speed is for amateurs.
ANY Moto Guzzi.............the two I had, (Yes I know I should have learnt my lesson with the first one!), were so unreliable my ex actually rigged a winch up on the pick up, he was so used to coming and rescuing me! The second one I had, a 750, had a habit of dying suddenly............... unnerving when you were halfway through overtaking something! And it meant that whenever I went anywhere it was a lottery as to whether I would make it there and back!
Yamaha RD 350 B
The throttle was like a SWITCH
Either on or off
and the front brake was about a effective as an iron bar through the spokes !!
Useless under 70 mph
It was like riding a "high-speed" pogo stick
But the handling was great between 40 and 70
when you could find a billiard table big enough
Kawasaki Z 250 the rear shocks were not good leaking oil so i took them off and welded up the rear crating my very own hard tail chop looked well nice sprayed all mat black but out on the road it was a killer on the ass. never did that again British roads have to many pot holes
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