Hate that bike.

[AdamEf]

I had a day of training on a GS500 and it nearly put me off wanting to carry on learning to ride. It was miniature, uncomfortable and it was a training school bike falling to bits, stalled constantly and every gear shift found a false neutral. felt like my legs were around my ears.

Never ridden one but I've always disliked the look and idea of the Ducati X Diavel. Everything from the aesthetics to the hideous marketing of coolness aimed at ageing men.

[Robby]

SV650.
It's like Suzuki worked out the concept, then went out of their way to make the bike miss the mark in every way.

Engine - nothing, then briefly fun, then you hit the rev limiter.
Suspension - Not just budget, budget suspension can work. Budget and trying too hard would be the best way of putting it.
Reliability - Mine leaked oil past the seal on the (plastic) clutch cover, and blew the gasket by the waterpump to make lots of mayonnaise.

Even the tyres sizes were wrong when I had one. Back when the decent tyres were only really available in 180 rears, too wide for the SV.

I think that when Triumph designed the street triple, they just decided to make an SV650 without the mistakes.

[stonesie]

For me it was my Ducati Multistrada 1200, It was a nice bike to ride when it worked, which was rarely. The dealer called it character.

Probably a Friday afternoon bike but the dealer almost had it more than I did. Over priced piece of shit.
It also gave me a distrust of Michelin tyres as it's PR4's had the handling of a drunk on a mechanical bull.

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er6f and vt125 shadow

[Travis Bickle]

A lot of votes for the GS500 LOL
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[AdamEf]

I have an SV and love it. But then I've changed out all the suspension and tweaked the TPS, changed the bars etc. So it's like a different bike really. I like the engine, (when you have the throttle working by adjusting the TPS to let it fuel at under 4000rpm!), but it is known for being mainly an engine and frame that needs eeverything else adjusting / swapping. They're a good bike though if you want to buy one cheap and gradually invest in it to make it decent. Kind of like buying on lease, but only paying for the extras when you can afford it. Mine's taken me 3 years and is just at the point that I want it now.

A lot of people seem to go from the SV to the Striple. I can see why, especially the R version with adjustable suspension. I could have bought one with all the money I've spent on the SV, but I didn't have all that money in one go to spend.

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[Grubscrew]

Yamaha XJR1300. I bought because it has a real eye candy about it....I then rode it.......oh no , not for me. Similar to a GN250.

I once rode an Ossa. Gear lever on the wrong side of the bike. Very agricultural.
Rode my brothers Harley......a real bone shaker.
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[Courier265]

I can't think of a bike I've ridden that I don't like....

Many votes for the GS500, ridden one, I enjoyed it, would of bought one
years ago if I was able to get a good one.

[chickenstrip]

[virus]

I'll second the GS500 and take it a bit further and include the cb500, I was going to suggest every 500 parallel twin is shite but the gpz500 is a hillarious thing to thrash the tits off and make me wonder just how hard honda and suzuki tried to miss the mark.

infact thinking about it, the gpz500 is the only 4t parallel twin ive ridden that I didnt want to push in a canal when I got off.
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owned: 85 rat CG (sold), 91 GS500e (stolen), 84 gsx400f (scrapped), 81 z250 (siezed, siezed, scrapped), 83 cb250rs (sold), 84 gpz750r ratfighter (killed) 84gpz400 (sold), '80 cb650 ratfighter (wrote off) 95gsx6/12f ratfighter (killed) 91 xj900 (sold)
stinkwheel Well I just had my hands up a pigs fanny. Which makes your concerns pale into insignificance.

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[Bhud]

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The ER is “tuned for midrange response” which is factory speak for “detuned to make less power everywhere”. The GPZ is one of those crap on paper bikes that manages to be more than it’s sum of parts as a riding experience. Neuter the engine and stick it in an even worse frame and you have the ER, which is shit but still better than the GS500.
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[Fizzer Thou]

The worst dirt bike that I have ever ridden was a friends Kawasaki KDX250SR that used to belong to my brother.We were greenlaning around the Dorking/Surrey lanes and we had an opportunity to swap bikes for a short distance...and that was as far as I wanted to go because that 'bike' was awful,especially when compared to my KTM,which I was so glad to get back on to.

As for rubbish road bikes,the worst by far was a friend's Suzuki GT750 triple that I had to ride in the wet.The throttle was heavy,the twin front discs did not work in the light rain and the thing pogoed around corners when carrying my friend on the back
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[Suntan Sid]

Can't say I've ever hated a bike, however of the bikes I've ridden the one I enjoyed the least was a Moto Guzzi 850 Le mans.
I didn't own the bike, I had a 350 YPVS F1 at the time, however I swapped for a lap around the TT course.

It was cramped, uncomfortable, the seat was made from a lump of hardwood, it had torque steer on full throttle, it wasn't exactly fast, the brakes were crap, the suspension was rock hard, and I managed to singe my jeans on the cylinder heads!
I assume that's what you call character.
I didn't enjoy my lap, the guy who had my Yamaha, for a lap, was grinning like a Cheshire cat!

Second least favourite would be my brother's BSA Starfire, weighs as much as a small planet, runs, accelerates and brakes at the same rate as the small planet. Character strikes again!

ER5, dull is the word that springs to mind.
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