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I don't think it's fair to call it "worst" bikes. Those, as you might know, were the days that to build a dirt bike was easy as taking a road bike, put off-road tires and wide handlebars.
In fact, there was a spanish championship called TT, with those bikes, with road tires and wide handlebars. And the races were in downtowns.
Ah! And after the war, as you say, it's a nonsense. Spanish civil war was from 1936 to 1939. The II World War was from 1939 to 1945.
None of each wars were the beginnings of those industries, as OSSA started it's business in 1942.
The brakes, suspension, handling, power, shifting, clutch and durability leave a little to be desired, but the cup holder and luggage rack are a nice touch.
1997 RM250. slow, slow, slow. First time the motor was apart for a top end, I discovered that the power valve flapper had two sharp pionts on its furthest ends that had been rubbing the piston since new, and had rubbed two grooves in the piston and rings. Nice engineering there. The brakes did not work very well. It was a total pathetic letdown after owning and riding a beast of a 1995 CR250 for a couple of seasons
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When DeCoster finally got him a firecracker of a motor for Gatorback, someone forgot to put oil in the gas. All of the attention and R&D going to McGrath, pissed off LaRocco to the point that he also threw Suzuki under the bus. He didn't have any clever nomenclatures, I think he just called it a "piece of shit".
By far the worst bikes I had ever ridden.
Took a while to get to this bike. This turd was so slow, no amount of money could make it go any faster. To this day, I honestly believe the transmission had six reverse gears. Either that or I was always dragging an anchor around with me.
I had an 87 RM125 ,I loved it.
We went to a 53 tooth in the rear and went with a DG pipe & silencer,Barnett clutch ,wiseco top end and it had great bottom end power.The suspension was great IMO. I can remember getting plenty of hole shots on it.
My 1980 Maico 'Banana' 440. Worst handling Maico ever !
WORST bike I ever rode.... 1992 yz125. omg what a turd. The motor was so slow. you literally had to hold it wide open until the revlimiter popped and then shift.... and thats the only way it would shift without the clutch. The brakes where so bad... not that it mattered because you couldnt get going fast enough on it to actually need brakes. turning? it wouldnt. bulky, ugly, just a joke.
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But Nate.....you posted the pic of the YZF , and I gotta say I owned one for a while. I only sold mine because I was just going to get out of the sport and quit all together. I was off the bikes for about 6yrs and picked up a 2010 YZF450. I rode it for about 7 weeks when I banged myself up a little and just decided to sell it. I actually really liked that bike. I bought it new and set it up ( bone stock ).....and it had the best overall stock suspension of any bike I had ever ridden. I think if I would of kept it and took the time to set it up for me even better.....I'd probably still own it. Great bike as far as I'm concerned.
I've ridden a lot of crappy bikes over the years.....but since I've came back , the two best bikes I've ridden were both almost new. 2011 RMZ450 ( loved it bone stock) and my buddies 2011 and 2012 KXF450's. Great bikes. I still own and ride my 08' Honda CRF450......and as far as "fit and feel"......probably the best feeling bike I've ever sat on. Even though the suspension lacks a little compared to these newer bikes.
Without a dout.... worst POS ever. We dumped countless hours into this shit box and it would never pull its own weight
The '86 and '87 250 however were rockets. Great power and went around corners like a cheap whore.
No joke!
was obsolete junk. when I got back on my 250 I really wanted to ghost ride it off a cliff, the 450 was so much better
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