The Top 10 Scariest Motorcycles Ever
Some bikes are born with it, others evolve into being it - however they do it, these are our top ten scariest motorcycles ever
The Top 10 Scariest Motorcycles Ever?
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I would of put the Maico 760 on there, when i was a kid growing up there where a lot of fields that where still being farmed(housing estate now 
). We would ride bikes there and there was a older than us guy that did motor X and had a Maico 760. What a fucking crazy bike, i never rode it i was to young and wouldn't be able to get on it anyway!! Everybody that he let have a go on it binned it, mainly getting thrown off the back of it, a real beast of a thing!!
). We would ride bikes there and there was a older than us guy that did motor X and had a Maico 760. What a fucking crazy bike, i never rode it i was to young and wouldn't be able to get on it anyway!! Everybody that he let have a go on it binned it, mainly getting thrown off the back of it, a real beast of a thing!!
That's stunning
you have shit taste in bikes and women I see 
but hey oh, you ride neither 
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My 1098 SF was about the scariest bike I'd ridden when I first bought it. Not because it was massively powerful, which it wasn't, but because the previous owner was clearly a barely trained baboon. It had semi-slick Pirellis which never warmed up and the suspension was all over the place with no sag at all. Both ends would top out over the slightest undulation and it felt as nervous and wayward as hell.
Since I've owned it I've added 25 bhp and 20 ft/lb of torque with some judicious Louigi fettling and had the suspension upgraded by someone who actually knows what they're doing and now it rides like a 600 supersport but with vastly greater propensity for wheelies. Some bikes are only as scary as the dork who owned them before.
Since I've owned it I've added 25 bhp and 20 ft/lb of torque with some judicious Louigi fettling and had the suspension upgraded by someone who actually knows what they're doing and now it rides like a 600 supersport but with vastly greater propensity for wheelies. Some bikes are only as scary as the dork who owned them before.
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I loved the look of them, and fancied one despite the press they got over tank slappers. Then my girlfriend irresponsibly got pregnant and I sold my bike, so I never had one.
The TL had a slightly longer swing I recall.
You also have to remember about that time, people still had money and we were seeing an awfull lot of people having ridden a 250 in the early 70/'s80's suddenly want a bike again but went straight in to the thousand cc's. About this time a term was created "born agains" that came about and an awful lot of middle aged men, were having accidents on bikes too powerful for their skills and some of those bikes weren't exactly put together in a great fashion.
You also have to remember about that time, people still had money and we were seeing an awfull lot of people having ridden a 250 in the early 70/'s80's suddenly want a bike again but went straight in to the thousand cc's. About this time a term was created "born agains" that came about and an awful lot of middle aged men, were having accidents on bikes too powerful for their skills and some of those bikes weren't exactly put together in a great fashion.
A mate of mine down south had a TLS. I rode it once. At the time I had a gen 1 1290 Superduke. I was struck by how heavy and ponderous the TLS felt in comparison. It was perfetcly stable and not flighty, and nice and thumpy low down but no top-end like the SDR. At the same time, another mate in the same place had a 1050 V-STrom. Same engine as the TLS detuned. I thought that was the better bike but again it felt very heavy compared to my KTM 11i0.
It was the rotary damper that caused a lot of the issues, a lot of owners changed it for an Ohlins.
Cracking engine.