[WildHorse]

If this has been posted previously I apologize.

http://hubpages.com/hub/Top_10_Ugliest_ ... f_All_Time

 

[classicXman]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder--I guess. I happen to really like some of those.

 

[Guest]

Not sure who was on the panel but I have to disagree with about 70%-80% of their choices! The Buell and Rocket I will give to them but there are plenty of other bikes that are much uglier than those. My vote goes to the following bike.

www.suzukicycles.com/Products/DL650K8/Default.aspx

I am sure they are great bikes but only a mother could love them!

 

[Al1943]

Just my .02, but there ain't no ugly motorcycles. Maybe some better looking than others, but if it got two wheels and a motor I like 'em all. Each has it's own characteristics that make them unique and special.

 

[2wheelsforme]

I sure disagree also.

 

[WildHorse]

classicX you hit the nail on the head however when I came across this list I couldn't resist posting it. :wink:

I really have a soft spot for the Rocket III.

 

[2wheelsforme]

It is a trike not a bike but a local guy here rides it to all the ralleys. I took this picture and think it is butt ugly:

 

[2wheelsforme]

I did not take this picture but it is ugly also:

 

[WildHorse]

W :shock: W

 

[black hills]

LOL...Obviously I'm out of touch with fashion?? Ilike the Buell, loved my V-45 magna (at the time), think the CB400 is way cool, and love all the KTM's!!! Send me your ugly bikes, I promise to love them all!!

 

[Morgan Buchanan]

The V-Strom and Hyabusa aren't on there? LOL

 

[BigRedFlamin-X]

No ugly bike list is complete without the BMW R1200.

That's what I call ffffff-ugly. :shock:

 

[Firemanirfd]

Frankly I like the look of the Rune, The older bikes are all dependant of what the styles were of the time. The Stratoliner, I think the jury is still out on, a bunch of interresting style concepts jammed into one thing doesn't usually work, Like a TV/VCR/DVD setup.

 

[WildHorse]

My nominee.........

 

[oasysco]

If this has been posted previously I apologize.

http://hubpages.com/hub/Top_10_Ugliest_ ... f_All_Time

The Rune is my fave bike. I wish I owned one... not at $30K, mind you, but at the going rate of $18K.

Greg

 

[exabrial]

+1 on the Buell. That paint-chip eating HD piece was an oppresed child that fell off the performance wagon and was beaten with an ugly stick.

 

[Guest]

None of the bikes on the list are "ugly" IMO. The only bike I think is "different" is the KTM, but all the rest are not ugly by any stretch, again IMO.

Now, those home-made contraptions that have been posted in this thread...they are truly ugly, again IMO.

 

[Tullander]

Good topic. And sorry to anyone I may offend, but I've always thought that Moto Guzzi consistently build's the ugliest motorcycles. In all fairness though, they are somewhat better now.

 

[black hills]

Good topic. And sorry to anyone I may offend, but I've always thought that Moto Guzzi consistently build's the ugliest motorcycles. In all fairness though, they are somewhat better now.

I agree, but never tell a Guzzi owner that!! You think HD guys are brand loyal, try a Guzzi rider!

 

[Art Vandalay]

Apparently, to some MC design critics, "of all time" means the last thirty years of the motorcycle's 110+ year history.

As with most dimwits, history began on the day they were born.

And within that short span, the fact that he singled-out the Honda 'Magna' (which admitedly isn't the prettiest machine out there), and either disregarded or was simply ingnorant of the existence of the Suzuki 'Madura' during the same period, which by the way, made the 'Magna' look like a beauty queen, shows his very limited awareness of what was really 'hard on the eyes' back then.

There were SO may god-awful looking bikes in the thirties, forties, fifties, and sixties that a list of the fugliest would be in the hundreds, not the tens.

And as it concerns that Guzzi photo that is posted above, that bike has very nice 'lines', is well proportined, and has a classic 'Cafe Racer' look that appeals to me. The finish and colors suck generally, and the overuse of dull greys and blacks ruin what is potentially rolling eye-candy.

I simply disagree with the notion that the Rune is ugly.

You want UGLY? try first generation Victory machines before Arlen Ness saved their butt with some kind of 'style' that got rid of that built-in-a-garage-from-plans-bought-from-the-back-of-a-Popular-Mechanics-magazine 'look' they ALL originally had. The fact that Victory is still around today is largely because of Ness, and of course Victory's good sense in hireing him to 'fix' those turds before it was too late.