HOND/YAMA/KTM/SUZUK

[MxMikey12]

Just a thought on what is the preference consisting of general ride/reliability etc. ?
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[pepperami]

Pretty much a mute question.
Most modern bikes are very reliable if looked after properly.

If you ride like you stole it and don’t do any maintenance, then any bike will go phut!
If you want a bike that you just get on and ride for a billion miles, you’re out of luck.

I’ve had Kawasaki, Suzuki, Honda, Hyosung, Honley, Yamaha, Bultaco and they’ve all been reliable.

I even had an old CZ 125 that kept on smoking along because I kept on top of the maintenance.
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[Evil Hans]

[Sister Sledge]

Needs an option for dropping a Petter AA1 into a rolling chassis.
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[rcbikeracer]

Mz Skorpion Traveller

[Teflon-Mike]

Reliability is ultimately a function of maintenance. Do enough maintenance, any bike can be 'reliable'.

Next is build quality; KTM don't have a wonderful reputation for build or reliability, often sacrificing 'reliability' for performance; Honda, tends to be rather the converse... but they make a heck of a lot of bikes! And things like the CBF125's flux problem tend to offer the lie to their paragon or reliability reputation! BUT, if you are more concerned with the performance offered by a KTM, then you have probably already made that compromise to sacrifice Honda like 'reliability' for it.

End of the day, its a bit of string question! It really is!

I pick a bike based on its condition in the metal. Its reputation for 'reliability' is pretty irrelevant; what I want to use it for more so, but either which way, its down to ME, and whether I bother to change the oil and pump up the tyres and check the brake pads from time to time! Not whose factory it might have come out of however many owners ago!
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

Shite poll is shite.

YFPOS.
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[bhinso]

"Other - State in comments"

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[stevo as b4]

Kawasaki only green and mean always been the best always will be!

Seriously though, out of your poll I call KTM as they have a 125 that's dyno spinning 38.8bhp rear wheel and beating that would need some serious wizardry and then some!

15hr piston life FTW!

[pepperami]

[blurredman]

Not many options there..



Mine is MZ.
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Past: 1991 Honda CG125BR-J, 1992 (1980) Honda XL125S, 1996 Kawasaki GPZ500S.
Current: 1981 Honda CX500B - 91k, 1987 MZ ETZ250 (bored to 295cc) - 38k, 1990 MZ ETZ251 - 49k, 1979 Suzuki TS185ER - 9k, 1972 MZ ES250/2 - 17k.

[pinkyfloyd]

I've ridden a lot of bikes and owned one of each of the big Jap 4. Honda, Suzuki, Yami and Kwak (owned 2 of those) and out of all the bikes I have played on Kawasaki just for smoothness gets my vote. So much so that when I sold my Z750 I bought the Z800 to replace it and now looking at paying this off and trading in for a Z1000
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[Travis Bickle]

Honda.

Based on no experience or knowledge whatsoever other than a childhood memory of my best mate's dad pulling a Honda lawnmower out of a shed having been sat there literally for YEARS and it started at the first tug of the string.

Having said that, I'm loving my Yamaha, even though it's an old dog! Honda don't produce a bike that at this moment in time I'm particularly lusting over. However that's liable to change with the wind.
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[WD Forte]

Oh I see, all english bikes eh?
Where's the german BMW and chinese bikes?
OMG this is so rassis !
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