Bikes you are GLAD you sold..

Didn’t like the 2012 YZ250f much, could never get the carb right.

Switched from primo set up post vintage, 1979 CR250 to a brand new 2005 CRF450 and hated it. Owned it 6-years and got to the point I rarely rode it and was glad I sold it because I could never adapt to it. Went back to a 2-stroke and have loved it ever since.

Every KX500 I ever owned!

13 yz450f. Sold it with 10 hours on it. Fuck that bike.

1976? Yamaha GTMX 80. I hated that bike, I wanted an RM, or YZ 80, and my parents bought the GTMX. Sold that and got a brand new 1978 XR75. I loved that XR.

Had one running like a champ. Ran into a guy in tacoma that tunes 4 strokes amazing. He's a low key guy but if you need a bike dialed he's legit.

I bought a PW 80 for my wife for her first bike. when I sold it to a guy he called me like an hour later and told me it blew up. I offered to give him his money back but he was fine with it. Oops. It never ran right.

Rode 250Fs for a decade, bought a 2016 CRF450R for a good deal thinking it would be an easy switch after a few rides, hated it, bought a YZ250 and have had the most fun I've ever had riding it.

'86 RM250. Sold a nice '84 to get it and regretted it straight away. It had the one-year weird cam link suspension that was useless, which had a habit of spitting me over the bars for no reason, and it blew it's brains out the second time I rode it.

Fixings were made of cheese and the thing was held together by zip-ties and duct tape most of the time. Traded it in for an '88 KX125 which I loved.

2003 KTM 250SX

Well for me that would be:

- 125 YZ 1992 - Motor was weak and not reliable at all
- 250 kx 2000 - The handling was awful and the bike not reliable
- 350 FC 2019 - Great bike but didn't gel with the power of the engine and i didn't like the rigid frame compared to my older 2017 SXF.

2014 crf 450 and the 2015 tc250 was a close second. Both great bikes to ride, but both seemed heavy on the maintenance. Back on a green bike now.

2016 ktm 250xc.
Worst forks I’ve ever had the pleasure of hating.
One lap it bottoms everywhere, next corner it doesn’t move at all. Leaned in a rut it just locks up and you feel like your shoulder sockets are gonna pop out.

Broke a reed at 1 hr. Ktm had no want to assist in the rebuild. So 1.4 hrs in I had a full rebuild. Top and bottom.

Shock linkage needle bearings bad at 10 hrs.
I found them crushed when I was doing service on the shock.

Steering bearings were notchy at 25 hrs even with plenty of grease.

Wheel bearings were made of peanut butter apparently.


It was fast and I won races on it. But what a total pita.

It was my first “new” bike too.

Sold the thing to a local “wheely boy”
Bike was stolen in less than a week.
Since he never did want the title the cops called me and wanted to know if wanted to come get my bike from the impound. So I came to the lot to check it out and it had been spray painted black and the works pipe was a nice tinge of red and sconge. And totally bashed in.
Broken rear fender, bent rim, tweaked subframe, bent bars the whole 9 yards.
I called the young man and said you want me to get it for you but after seeing the pics he declined. It was trashed.

06 Yz250 and 07 yz250.

Ergos suck on them and hated the power delivery.

1983 YZ125. SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!

1997 Honda CR250. I came back to the sport after a 10 year college break and this was the bike that was available to me for cheap. I rode it for a year and the bike physically messed up my body.

1975 Husqvarna 250 of some sort.

My uncle has an affinity for vintage european bikes, and my dad is smart but sometimes gullible. I always wanted to ride growing up and my uncle convinced my dad that this Swedish vintage bike would be great for me. I was thirteen and I hated that thing. When we bought it, my uncle threw in an MSR tool kit that was in a fanny pack. Didn't think much of it until the first time I rode it and fouled a plug in the woods after 20 minutes of riding and had left the tools in the truck. This is in the early 2000's mind you, so I couldn't have been more jealous of people riding modern bikes. I hated kicking from the left side with my right foot. I hated the vibrations. I hated the bars that were wider than my shoulders. I hated everything about it, and once I bought a 99 YZ125, I never rode it again. A year later my uncle bought it back for a good bit less than he sold it to us.

A month later he called. "You still got that toolkit?"

All of them. I either made money, or got a better bike!

00 KX 250. Cylinder plating was like butter. Replated at 24 hours. Cracked motor mounts a few more times then the 94 KX 250 I had. Ditch pickles.

I've legit never owned a full size dirt bike I didn't not love. Excluding dual sports because those aren't super fun unless you're talking EXC or similar.

but if I had to choose my least fav it would be a 2001 RM125.

No doubt...Terry Varner did the motor on that bike.

84' YZ125 seized constantly and sometimes I wondered if just hopping off and running would've been faster it was so slow. How can something so slow seize every other weekend? Only bike I ever carried a spare cylinder for-loved my 83' it ripped.
85' YZ250 hated the forks, shock sucked ( BASS was a joke) and couldn't come to terms with the motor- bought it because I rode my buddies 84', which was sweet.
90' CR500 very unHonda -like build quality. Motor vibrated like a Maytag, even after having crank balanced by Falicon. Tranny jumped in an out of gears, had to have gears backcut. Harsh crap forks, pogo stick shock, and freaking kickstarter snapped in half, thank God it didn't go through my boot, lost my ass on it, couldn't give it away- loved my 88' one of my favorite five honey's.

1989 RM125 - seemed to handle ok but top ends would not stay together and zero help from Suzuki. Have not had another Suzuki since.

1997 Honda cr 250

Every bike.... because that means another one is coming!

"...the bike physically messed up my body."

I rode a friends '97 CR back to back with my '98 KX250. It was night and day after just a 10 minute session (at Mammoth).

This. Poor design. Terrible suspension. Rarely ran right. Pulled too many chicks, had to call cops to run ‘em off.....

2005 rmz450. Bought it new and sold it 6 months later. 1st and last 4stroke mx bike I ever bought.

Another vote for the 03 KTM250SX. The motor was stupid fast with zero bottom end.

The frame flexed more than my XR600. Rode it stock and had two different places revalve and respring the suspension. The forks were too rigid (48mm WPs) and overwhelmed the chassis. It seemed impossible to hit the same line two times due to flex. Headshake for days. Then there was the rear suspension; it would hydraulic lock on small chatter or jump landings. However, under a slowly-applied load (corners or g-outs) it would just fall through its travel and bottom out. Good luck when it rebounded and combined with the frame flex.