What's the worst thing you've ever bought for your bike?

I thought this was meant to be a kind of confessions thread anyway. So that's what I did.

 

I spend my time taking tat off bikes and putting them back to standard. Buy a bike owned by an Elton John fan (it would seem), rip all the tat off and flog it to equally colour-blind ebayers for big bucks, buy standard bits for peanuts, fit them and watch the value of the bike double...

And don't listen to the old codgers here andyp, half of them have got or had rim tapes, even if they won't admit it.

 

LED wheel valve caps.... Dont ask i never fitted them.

On behalve of Darren 470four.
Dazza bought some LED's and fitted them inside the air scoops on his
900ss.
RIP Dazza

 

Andy

I sure i can get some stuff on Mr R.. Leave it with me i'll have a chat with a mate. :wink:

 

Telflon's closing in.

Google sensas.co.uk

 

A pair of Alpinestars Tech 8s (always wanted a pair), only to find I can't get my foot under the gear lever!

 

Where would you mount it anyway?

 

The Arai Chaser helmet in Ducati colours (all fine) but with "Ducati" on it (not fine, as I realised not long after buying it). Each to their own and all that, but I realised Ducati branded gear is all a bit twee for me. So, good excuse to go out and buy an RX7-GP.

 

An HID headlight. Caused no end of problems with the immobiliser and actually wasn't much better than a standard bulb in the Multistrada anyway! Left me stranded when the fuses blew too. Right waste of money.

 

Was so eager to get home and put in bid on new Arai Corse helmet I didn't notice it was a large size,not medium as I wanted.Doh!
I did manage to re sell it later though.

 

Fake carbon levers for my first bike. They looked truly awful

 

A Ventura rack for my 796, put it on the bike for 5 minutes, took it straight back off and put it back in its box

It's now sold

 

So hands up those of you who bought stick-on crap for your helmet - you know, mohican, ears, etc. They were all over the place a few years ago, but no-one claims to have bought them. I did once rig up a christmas tree (with lights) on my lid when I was dispatching - bear in mind I'm a fat bloke and I was wearing red waterproofs...

 

You've put me right off my eggy bread


My Ducati is the only bike I've ever added bling to

I do remember wearing shoulder pads - but so did everyone else

And that belongs on the other thread :-/

 

although, to be fair, when i had one on my blade it was very very good at dumping oil everywhere, some of it on the chain.

 

Virago 125!!! I was 17?

 

I got caught speeding on my Gixxer so chopped it in for a BMW K100LT, lasted 10 days, went and swapped it back for my Gixxer, dealer charged me £200 for storage

 

l've got a mate who's worse thing he ever bought for his bike was a set of spanners
l keep on having to fix the f#kin thing an its a tractor!