Your most reliable bike?

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[barrkel]

Of all the bikes I've put serious distance on - ER6f, VFR800 VTEC, SH300 - the ER6f was the most reliable by some way.

SH300s tend to burn oil and the needle bearings in the final drive disintegrate into a fine grinding powder in the oil bath, especially if an impact wrench has been used to undo the clutch nut or possibly the wheel nut. I haven't owned an SH that didn't need final drive bearing replacement at some point, and topping up between oil changes once they've done 10+k.

VFR let me down so many times with the charging system. Stator burned itself out twice, reg/recs replaced, connector blocks shorting out. Stranded me multiple times.

Brutale was pretty reliable, but the connector block to the main relay burnt itself up at one point, and later it developed a mysterious misfire on one of the cylinders that went away after I swapped around the coils. It never stranded me though.

YBR, PS, Vity were all reliable, but I didn't ride any of them more than 8k.
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[Shaft]

[stonesie]

My first big bike, an SV650 never put a foot wrong, I did maintainance things like brakes and servicing but other than that it was reliable but a bit boring.

The Ducati was a nightmare, a 2013 Multistrada, in 8 months of ownership it was back to the dealer 6 times with electrical faults and vibration issues, the rear light snapped it's mounts and fell out on one ride.

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[chickenstrip]

Kawasaki seem to have got FI right back in '83 from my experience, and my current bike, a model that hit the showrooms 18 years later, is carbs and has been equally reliable, my particular one now being 14 years old.

Actually, the carbs on it are now 17 years old, did about 30k miles on the bike they originally came from, and have now done a further 30-odd k miles on this bike, all with no problems.
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[Bhud]

Reliability? Don't know. Throw enough time at it, and you can fix any carb problem. Throw enough money at it, you can fix any EFI problem (might be a lot of money, if it's a German car).
Maintainability and repairability? Carbs over EFI.
Efficiency and fuelling ratios? EFI over carbs.

[ThatDippyTwat]

Ever?
ZZR1100 - However, it was 3 years old at the time. It's to be expected.

Recently, after my license had it's Swansea holiday?
Hyosung GA125F. The only time it let me down was entirely my fault for putting on a shit air filter that was too restrictive. It may have been a matt black rat, but it just worked despite me wringing it's neck everywhere. Every other bike, except the ZZR has let me down in a way I couldn't have foreseen, and I've pushed them or had them recovered. I'm excluding the current work hack, I've not had it long.

Carbs vs EFI?
EFI is nice this time of year for starting in the morning. However, the 250 has a weird hunting thing it does for a minute before it warms up properly and settles.Once warm, and while riding, it's fine, no noticable lag or flatspots, it works about as well as you can expect a 250 single to work - I'm more worried about the gearbox.
Carbs are still a bit weird to me (I'm not young either) - that said, I have quals in Electronics, I get how EFI works, I'm still learning stuff about carbs beyond basic operation and maintenance.
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'98 VFR800 (touring) - '12 VFR800 Crosrunner (Commuting) - '01 KDX220 (Big Green Antisocial Machine)

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[pepperami]

99% of gearboxes are bulletproof imho.
In all the years I’ve been involved with bikes, I’ve never had a gearbox let me down or leave me on the side of the road.

Clutches yes, dodgy wiring yes, bad carb set up yes, frayed/snapped cables yes, .

Maybe I don’t rag my bikes hard enough .
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[ThatDippyTwat]

[Fisty]

My GSXR 750 K2.

It never broke down in the entire time I owned it.

The fact it was stolen after 8 hours of me buying it is another thing.
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[kev2b4]

Suzuki GT500- bought at 13k miles , scrapped at ~ 130k miles, everything worn out at same time, failed once - piston crown came off at 70 mph in 4th gear- two rebores, etc. while using it - but reliable for a bike.
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previous C50,CD175,GT500,GSX250,CB750KZ,GSX750E,GSX1300R

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[ThatDippyTwat]

[ZRX61]

My ZRX11 is 20 years old with 118,000 miles. Never had the clutch cover off it....
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[P.]

2007 Varadero 125. Bike took an absolute pasting up and down the motorway. 77,000 miles was the last figure I saw before trading it. Would have went round the world without worrying.

[thx1138]

MZ ETZ 251

I treated it like crap and it kept going, bits needed fixing, I bodged them, it kept going

I mean, I broke the kick start off and bumped it everhywhere, but it never didn't work.

[Kentol750]

Bought a 13 model and rode it for 13k, mate bought it off me and put another 12k on it... tyres and a chain/sprocket. Never missed a beat before some bint whacked it from under him!
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Some bikes.

[pepperami]

[Polarbear]

[Fenolinar]

Kawasaki Z900 would be the most perfectly suited and reliable bike for me since I have been using it for quite a while now and I totally fell in love with it.
But, I am thinking to https://totalguide.org/best-balance-bike/ buy a balance bike for my kid from Strider brand.
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