Being in my 70’s I rode bikes from that era (60’s & 70’s) and I thought they were beautiful, even the old Rickman. I now ride a new KTM 300 XC-w and truly believe it’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever thrown a leg over (as hard as that is today to do). Love the video and your ability to articulate, keep um coming.
Love the look of the Husabergs. Also loved the funky RM graphics. All of the Japanese MXers had some wild graphics at the time. And I remember being at a 3 hours race with a pink TM 125 running around and loved the thing. Everyone was gathered around it in the pits
How about those 1981 Honda CR front number plates?? Crazy! That being said, how about a video going over all of the crazy exotic 125’s from Italy during the late 70’s early 80’s?
Totally disagree on the 91 RM125 being there, whilst the white shrouds and side panels weren’t as nice as the yellow ones we had here in New Zealand I think they are a Beautiful looking bike! , but I’m biased as I still have my 91 Rm250 I bought new haha . I am doing it up and collecting parts and have managed to get both new OEM Shroud stickers and the RHS side panel Sticker , still on the hunt for the LHS one. Love the look! Simon
Actually, I think all the bikes are ugly today with winged/arrow tipped plastic, broken transformer ridged bird beak front fenders. Now I am a manufacturing guy, and I look at a bike as a work of art. But it is "functional art", not abstract art with no meaning or function. It is junk abstract art, and has no place on my functional dirt bike. I cut the arrow tip off my rear fender, replaced the front fender with a after market older model, (the 2014 OEM fenders were badly twisted from the china mold, both of them, so it is not hard to tell that the old Yamaha plastic is not produced in house anymore.), and it is looking like a dirt bike again that the cartoon Jetson's did not ride. I am sure there is a market for old plastic shape that fits new frames, and that would be a good punch in the eye to the meaningless artists.
I totally agree with your #1 pick. The rest of them are all not that bad. I did always think the 83 kx was weird and figured the 91 or 92 RM would make the list.
Aprilia I just don't get how the AMA were so Drakonian about big numbers being perfectly spaced and HUGE front displays, at one point, and now you cant even fit 2 digits on front, let alone 3 digits on the sides. You cant even read them on a 72" 4k tv. Aprilia shouldn't have even bothered with those little winglets. Just make an actual set of side plates, optional (for the 2 people in the world that might have actually raced one). Other than that, it's a pretty cool bike. Even the girder style front fender fits the design, even 'if' gimmicky overkill (which, it obviously was, since the race team dropped them).
91 Suzi The yellow frame is the only thing they did right, considering... Lol. The whole package looks like an after thought. The bruised banana seat. The ass sticking up, like it was looped over. The kick lever looks like it came off another bike. The shrouds don't flow with the pipe, and even for people who like bold new graphics, this is a stretch. Thank goodness they came off the first time you got it wet and the older yellow shrouds fit, as well as the old blue seat cover.
Y2K RM 'Snow-Shovel' Agreed. My 98 was a great looking machine , despite the 'Saber-Tooth' front plate (especially after the graphics came off and a black seat cover went on).
The KTM radiator was not behind the number plate it was under the gas tank. I'm sure you know that just the way you said it. And I thought that bike looked great if you just shit canned that ugly ass ft number plate. Good video I think the aprilla is killer, even with the stupid small side panels but yeah, the frt number plate is dumb. '83 KX is one of my favorite looks, have the brochure on the wall, them Husaberg's were just nasty, lol.
I actually really like the 2010 YZFs specifically. I think they're my favorites, competing only maybe with the original 400F. Really like those 2010s. Zooming out to YZs in general though, I absolutely have to hand the title to the 1978s. Great Kodachrome decals from Yamaha's golden age of Hurricane Hannah and King Kenny Roberts, side plate still up forward where it belongs (😉) and not too tall and lanky.
I would have a hard time coming up with ten dirt bikes that I would consider ugly. 2000 rm, atk 250, the weird orange ktm but a couple you mentioned i had never seen before and agree that they are ugly, the TM for example.
1991 and 1992 RM were the best looking bikes of all time followed by 1991 CR followed by 1994 KX But hands down the early 80s KX side plates were the ugliest thing ever put on a modern MX bike
Let me guess, you were born in 1978 and never saw a 1976 RM125. We all suffer from it. We think what was good in the world could not have existed before we were born. It's a trap, because the majority of the greatness of mankind will not be known. :(
I know why you dont like that can am back fender. Cause it looks the same as the tip as the front fender. I like old bikes but it's a little silly. I'd take it though. But my brain probably knocked some bolts loose or something 😅
I loved the decals on the early 90's RMs. My cousin had the one with the zebra or tiger stripes on the seat. Bike was impossible to put in neutral while running. Didn't like going straight or being over revved at all, but turned effortlessly and had crazy midrange.
Every modern front fender is ugly. I like a nice curve, not some "transformer robot" child like artist looking thing. The only plastic I like on my 2019 YZ250 2-stroke, is the gas tank, but the front fender is the most ugly. Orange---is ugly too. There, I said it! :)
I'd like to add some more, any bike from 2000 up are ugly bikes. The front fenders look like cow catchers on 1800's steam locomotives, the front number plates look stupid being triangles and upside down pyrmids. What is with the tiny tiny side panels, soon you wont find your favorite riders number during a race. Black rims are gross, and the bikes look like the silly insectoid cockroach transformers of today. Bleech. The late 70s-90s bikes were the best.
The first time I saw an 82 yz250 I thought it was missing a headlight bulb. The first time I saw the slope nose CRF, I thought there was something wrong with it. ..and I still do. That's my 2 cents.
I rode an Aprilia sxv550 supermoto and it was sick as hell. Love the styling too. The 91 and 92 RM's are prob in my eye's some of the coolest looking dirt bikes ever made. Reminds me of the crazy old school stand up jet ski's from the era.
Like you, I'm a black n yellow fan of late 70s early 80s YZs, but the 81 125 and the 82 lineup w radiator on forks deserve honorable mention. My favorite bikes of all time , except those few models
I disagree with most of what you said. except I agree canam 1980 samsonite version is ugly ( this is my favourite bike). quiet, light, low sweet power, easy to start what more do you want? Just take off the square number plates and it looks great . I have owned a few of your picks including husaberg (arg guably a copy of of Honda works bike of 1980 ish. arguably the most desireable bike of all time and you call it ugliest? kawasaki 1980
The late model Can-Am’s are pretty damn good bikes. It really just takes dialing the rear suspension in because the shocks tend to fade pretty quickly. Ohlin gas charged shocks seem to fix the issue. The COG is very low and they don’t feel cheap like a Japanese bike of the era. They’re almost like a Maico but with a very fast electric style motor. When I started racing mine in 2011, I was told that they were garbage but I actually improved on mine with a bent rear shock and only springs for suspension. People took notice and more started showing up at the track. Between the MX4-MX6, the MX5 I feel is better. Bing Carb and a Supertrapp from the factory, which I believe that the supertrapp helps with the power band. Guys rave about their hams because they’re such a good bike.
The 07-10 KTM's are the #1 ugliest bike ever made even by KTM standards. No side panels for numbers, weird shaped ugly shrouds, and the grossest front fender to ever grace a dirtbike.
@@josephtecumsehwaterspoon. I found some of my American dream by never paying attention to politics. Then when I achieved what I did, (making 6 figures from my one car garage), some marxist prick got elected and told me "You didn't build that!". I have been obsessed with the falling of humanity every since,---but I am not living my life the way I want. I am contemplating at this time to shut it all off, all the news, totally ignore the bastards, and live the rest of my life the way I want for as long as I can. I just don't want to be the last one to find some American dream.
Check out the ROKON from back in the mid to late seventies it had a pull start like you would a lawn mower was the ugliest yellow and design you would ever see had an automatic transmission too it looked like it weighed 500 lb 🤣
Good fun list. I own a pristinely restored 84 KX250. I always say that they are so ugly it makes them beautiful. On a side note a NOS rear fender for one currently goes for around $1,000.00 USD.
I remember going to Kawasaki shop back in the day and thinking how cool those bikes looked because they were unique. Then when they changed in 85 I thought that was the absolute best. Now they are ugly beautiful.
I like your vids, Tony, and this one is fun with, yeah, looks being subjective, one rider's ugly is another's beauty, I suppose. But for me, a fan and rider in my teens in the Seventies, O my, you can't beat the bikes of that era. I will forever remember in awe seeing an RM125 in '76 being rolled off a trailer at a track. But it was the same with all of them, really, the Yamahas and the Hondas and, being that I was an American teen in West Germany at the time, all the European war horses, too. And re the original Euro scramblers, sure, they look like basic brutes, but that was the game, sporting fisticuffs. Back when riders wore leathers for their battles in the woods.
I thought the 90s Husaberg’s were beautiful (graphics aside, first thing I did was pull the graphics off) the Joel Smets factory bike you show with the dark green tank was stunning... I will jump on board and agree about the 2000 model though, that was awful... The pink TM though is again stunning, I guess you didn’t see a lot of them in the states but the factory bikes looked so good...
I personally think the Aprilia looks pretty aggressive 😉 Seeing more of the frame looks cool (dinky side plates) and overall this bike just looks very progressive and forward thinking. 🤘🤘🤘
Yea, Broc Glover and "JT race wear" started that trend. I got sucked into it. I had a pair of "Gear race wear" tiger striped pink/black striped riding pants. I gotta say though, they were the most comfortable riding pant I ever used.
I would clump most of the modern bikes from the early 2000's to present as the ugliest do to homogenized look of all them. You could easily switch the plastics from one brand to another and wouldn't know the make. I liked the uniqueness of the bikes of the 70's, 80's and 90's and I think they get better looking as time goes on.. Thanks Toni for keeping us engaged with the videos you put out!
I agree with you except for the 10th place Yamaha that I think looks awesome and the Aprilla 450 is weird and 'trying too hard' but I wouldn't say it's ugly like the others. Also you called these later Husabergs v twins (th-cam.com/video/MgHRhqNs1jY/w-d-xo.html) but they're singles.......its their 70 degree engine that takes a 500 cc KTM engine and increases displacement to 565 cc but the biggest change is moving the crank up and back so the cylinder is canted 70 degrees forwards. This crank move similarly moved the c of g UP but CENTERED it so a 570 handled like a 450 and a 450 handled like a 250 type of thing ( th-cam.com/video/djgl83e7zOA/w-d-xo.html). I always loved the look of those and even the 2004 era Husabergs (th-cam.com/video/Z4y53N80Kcs/w-d-xo.html) you didn't like, but to each their own. That 2004 style did look not so nice back in 2000 when they had the weird tank side panels with the 3 holes in it....but you can see the 2004 had nicer plastics with overall the same shape/design. So I only disagree with you on those 4 bikes ('10 Yam, '04 Hus, '70 deg Hus', Aprilia 450/550) and 2 of those actually comprise 1 spot in your list (the two later generations of Husabergs you mentioned after the one I DO agree is ugly - the original).
This was a fun vid! I think the Can-am should have been first 😂. Personally I always thought Honda and Suzuki had the best looking bikes over all through out the years. 👍
aw man, i think the Aprilla looks killer. and yeah, the kx125's looked kinda weird with one radiator. i thought the 250 looked good but those fenders were kinda dumb, plus mud race they pack up with mud something feirce. good reveiw, thanks!
Ok Vault man, You got the top three pretty damn sraight and I have most of these bikes in real life. You are way off on the KX 82-84 wuth the rear fenders. They are Green supreme man and everyone in the comments thinks so too. So you failed us with the kawis man. Other than that, decent job. Believe me the Can Am should be first but sure thing no man wants a pink TM dirt bike but if you did a color change it is not bad looking. On my Can Am, I ride the sheeet out of mine and it is so weird that it is a serious respectable bike once your on top of that thing !!
"everyone in the comments thinks so too" Hey man, don't make me part of your support group. You have no idea what I think. I will tell you what I think about ugly bikes. They became ugly as soon as the 4-stroke was forced on the industry. I have a 2019 YZ250 2-stroke, with that broken bird beak, cartoon transformer ridged, arrow tipped nonsense, and I am replacing it with a normal 2014 model. Yes, of course, the hole pattern is different. Won't stop me. I know how to do simple math, and have a CNC mill for a perfect job. I cut the stupid arrow off the back of my rear fender too. Looks so much better. All bikes today, are ugly, because the art left function and went in meaningless directions. I promise you, the artist can't even explain it. Abstract art is worthless, and ugly on a functional bike. Bat Mobile. I think the trash can silencers are ugly as all swamp too. The 4-stroke is ugly for a function though, because the EPA could care less if the sport dies. That is pretty damn ugly to me.
I definitely wouldve had the RM in top 3. The white shrouds, blank tank, weird seat etc was just awful. I didnt mind the last version of the Husaberg in the dark blue but yeh the rest were ugly. I probably wouldve had the 1998 ktms on the list as well... just SO much plastic!!! In my mind every bike that had big blobby shrouds is immediately gross.
@@TheMotocrossVault Instead of two Husabergs you could have taken at least one italian Husqvarna. 😉 I liked the Husaberg style since MJ 2000 and still got my 2011. So now I'm really sad. 😅
Have to disagree... Kawi has made some great looking bikes, but that number plate on the rear fender was a big mistake. Different? Yes. Attractive? No.
Thank you Tony for your compilation of ugly MX-bikes. I tend to agree with you in most cases, this clip certainly provides perspective on what 'good design' was in its own time. One must not forget that scramblers evolved from road-bikes, and that motocross is a pretty new sport considering the time motorcycles have been around. At least in its more extreme form as it has been for these past 30 years or so. And it is still changing, which means that the bikes are always evolving.
I'd say I don't agree with the 91 RM, but I kinda do....why.... because they didn't commit to the look, but they did in 92 and IMO, one of my favorite RM years in looks alone, same overall appearance, but the sear pattern is bright purple instead of that faded looking lavender 😅 Also, that Aprilia MXV is dope, and I've wanted one for years, those things are nasty as hell and were banned by the AMA 😅 Edit: and I loved the early 90s TM's ! 😂 It was the early 90s man....hot pink, neon colors...man those were fire! I'd die to have one in mint condition.... maybe even more so than the Aprilia 🤣
I remember reading Super Hunky's reviews on the top 10 worst dirt bikes of history things like: Shock springs that would fade on a busy barroom door. Electrics that would have trouble lighting off a .049 Cox model airplane engine. The rear end flopped like there was a hinge in the middle of the frame. It'd get into a high speed wobble at 15 mph. Suspension that did little more than hold the bike up. Handling like a shopping cart full of bowling balls with one locked wheel going down a flight of steps. and On and On...... AHAA Haa Aha haa Ahaaaaa
I pretty much agree with that list. Maybe the YZF is't that bad, I find the big shroud on just one side of the YZ 90 worse. Yamaha likes pointy shrouds. In the 70 CZ allways looked horrible. The shrouds of the first watercooled 125 of 81 looked ugly, allthough it was super trick and advanced back then. Those "frogger" type rear fenders were ugly even when I saw them in the '80. Something they picked back up from some bikes in the '70. Some modern mistakes are the 09 honda front fender. And the look of the husqvana 17 up models. Some brands just don't have tast. Whenever plastics get too pointy/spikey it looks bad in my opinion.
Wow I'd like to believe that I influenced tony on trying this type of video although I mentioned to try the video of the worst running worst built production bikes ever made but your vid idea is very similar and I predicted that a video with a rise/fall narrative may net one many views quickly and seems u have gotten alot of views for only being 2-3 week old video as of now and I actually had a big time advertisment commercial before the usual intro and I don't remember that b4 cuz maybe it got more views there are bigger advertisements on this episode of your channel now....lol
Had a Kim 125 in purple and mint green,surprised it didn’t make your list,early nineties model methinks,my favourite bueatifull bikes of all time were those splitfire Honda,s ridden by Jeremy McGrath
TM (Aka: WTF) Me, at the dealership: Is that some of Suzuki's ugliest front plastic paired with Honda's ugliest-ever sub-section, but in putrid pansy pink? Salesperson: Yes; but check out this kick stand!
I always thought the 1974 Suzukis were ugly.Maybe its the low pipe.Hondas were ugly until about 89.Yamaha didnt figure it out until they tried coping Honda in 1996.Same with Suzuki.And Kawi turned it around in 1990.The Cagivas were pretty trick looking for the time in like 1988.As a whole though I think Yamaha still makes the ugliest bikes still today because they went back to their Yamaha ways.Tough bikes but their side number plates look like they cut the off of a 1993 YZ 80 and removed the front of the panel.
I come from Italy and the Aprilia rxv is a crap it had a mess of engine and chassis problems, Motards were bought, there are many more 500s than 450s! But it is a very powerful bike with a lot of low RPM Power👍🏻🇮🇹💓
Going down the youtube rabbit hole brings me here. I worked in a Can Am shop in High School 77 to 81. They were everything you said lol. Fast, ugly as sin and handled like a wheelbarrow.
You may not like the kxs number plate fender. but at my local track in Australia the suzuki guys were buying oval front plates and pop riverting them to the rear mud guards to get the same look.
Man I love the way the new Yamahas look. They look aggressive and fast. With aggressive lines. I will say though. The way they engineered the plastics to fit, is horrible.
I agree with you on the good looking Japanese motorcycles and the bad ones but how can you expect the Germans or Europeans to build the same styling as the Japanese?? You are used to Japanese bikes so that's why you like them the most. Mercedes and Toyota are never gonna look the same that being said it does not make Mercedes a bad car.
Being in my 70’s I rode bikes from that era (60’s & 70’s) and I thought they were beautiful, even the old Rickman. I now ride a new KTM 300 XC-w and truly believe it’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever thrown a leg over (as hard as that is today to do). Love the video and your ability to articulate, keep um coming.
Love the look of the Husabergs. Also loved the funky RM graphics. All of the Japanese MXers had some wild graphics at the time. And I remember being at a 3 hours race with a pink TM 125 running around and loved the thing. Everyone was gathered around it in the pits
How about those 1981 Honda CR front number plates?? Crazy! That being said, how about a video going over all of the crazy exotic 125’s from Italy during the late 70’s early 80’s?
99 CR with alloy frame is pretty bad looking the frame looks like silver painted wood,
😂😁
Totally disagree on the 91 RM125 being there, whilst the white shrouds and side panels weren’t as nice as the yellow ones we had here in New Zealand I think they are a Beautiful looking bike! , but I’m biased as I still have my 91 Rm250 I bought new haha . I am doing it up and collecting parts and have managed to get both new OEM Shroud stickers and the RHS side panel Sticker , still on the hunt for the LHS one. Love the look! Simon
Fair enough!
Actually, I think all the bikes are ugly today with winged/arrow tipped plastic, broken transformer ridged bird beak front fenders. Now I am a manufacturing guy, and I look at a bike as a work of art. But it is "functional art", not abstract art with no meaning or function. It is junk abstract art, and has no place on my functional dirt bike. I cut the arrow tip off my rear fender, replaced the front fender with a after market older model, (the 2014 OEM fenders were badly twisted from the china mold, both of them, so it is not hard to tell that the old Yamaha plastic is not produced in house anymore.), and it is looking like a dirt bike again that the cartoon Jetson's did not ride.
I am sure there is a market for old plastic shape that fits new frames, and that would be a good punch in the eye to the meaningless artists.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder I guess? I actually like most of the bikes on this list.
I totally agree with your #1 pick. The rest of them are all not that bad. I did always think the 83 kx was weird and figured the 91 or 92 RM would make the list.
The skin disease and ED comparisons had my rolling.
I lol'ed myself!
Aprilia
I just don't get how the AMA were so Drakonian about big numbers being perfectly spaced and HUGE front displays, at one point, and now you cant even fit 2 digits on front, let alone 3 digits on the sides. You cant even read them on a 72" 4k tv.
Aprilia shouldn't have even bothered with those little winglets. Just make an actual set of side plates, optional (for the 2 people in the world that might have actually raced one). Other than that, it's a pretty cool bike. Even the girder style front fender fits the design, even 'if' gimmicky overkill (which, it obviously was, since the race team dropped them).
91 Suzi
The yellow frame is the only thing they did right, considering... Lol.
The whole package looks like an after thought. The bruised banana seat. The ass sticking up, like it was looped over. The kick lever looks like it came off another bike. The shrouds don't flow with the pipe, and even for people who like bold new graphics, this is a stretch. Thank goodness they came off the first time you got it wet and the older yellow shrouds fit, as well as the old blue seat cover.
Y2K RM 'Snow-Shovel'
Agreed. My 98 was a great looking machine , despite the 'Saber-Tooth' front plate (especially after the graphics came off and a black seat cover went on).
The KTM radiator was not behind the number plate it was under the gas tank. I'm sure you know that just the way you said it. And I thought that bike looked great if you just shit canned that ugly ass ft number plate. Good video I think the aprilla is killer, even with the stupid small side panels but yeah, the frt number plate is dumb. '83 KX is one of my favorite looks, have the brochure on the wall, them Husaberg's were just nasty, lol.
I actually really like the 2010 YZFs specifically. I think they're my favorites, competing only maybe with the original 400F. Really like those 2010s.
Zooming out to YZs in general though, I absolutely have to hand the title to the 1978s. Great Kodachrome decals from Yamaha's golden age of Hurricane Hannah and King Kenny Roberts, side plate still up forward where it belongs (😉) and not too tall and lanky.
I would have included the 1981 Honda CR lineup in this list.
I like the pink Tm.
That 91 rm125 is literally a 🤡’s bike😂
As a Suzuki fan I approve this comment
I would have a hard time coming up with ten dirt bikes that I would consider ugly. 2000 rm, atk 250, the weird orange ktm but a couple you mentioned i had never seen before and agree that they are ugly, the TM for example.
XR 650L, always an ugly bike.
1991 and 1992 RM were the best looking bikes of all time followed by 1991 CR followed by 1994 KX
But hands down the early 80s KX side plates were the ugliest thing ever put on a modern MX bike
Suzuki I was never a fan of but I liked the 91 so much I almost bought one.
Let me guess, you were born in 1978 and never saw a 1976 RM125. We all suffer from it. We think what was good in the world could not have existed before we were born. It's a trap, because the majority of the greatness of mankind will not be known. :(
the 83 kxs don't look good till u see one in person..the gold and green is awesome looking..I owned on in the 80s and it was beautiful
No actually they always look beautiful 😀
I am a big Suzuki fan, 91 and 92 suzukis are ugly!
They are cool ugly. The purple seat on the 250 is very unique
I know why you dont like that can am back fender. Cause it looks the same as the tip as the front fender. I like old bikes but it's a little silly. I'd take it though. But my brain probably knocked some bolts loose or something 😅
That Elsinore has a Poppy shock bodies. I machine my version of the body in High School metal shop for my 250 CZ
I laughed my ass off when you said “whoo that’s a good looking motorcycle”
I'd say on the majority of these bikes you hit the nail on the head. To be honest, I'd forgotten just how bad some of them were at the time.
18:55 lmao
I loved the decals on the early 90's RMs. My cousin had the one with the zebra or tiger stripes on the seat. Bike was impossible to put in neutral while running. Didn't like going straight or being over revved at all, but turned effortlessly and had crazy midrange.
Every modern front fender is ugly. I like a nice curve, not some "transformer robot" child like artist looking thing. The only plastic I like on my 2019 YZ250 2-stroke, is the gas tank, but the front fender is the most ugly.
Orange---is ugly too. There, I said it! :)
I'd like to add some more, any bike from 2000 up are ugly bikes. The front fenders look like cow catchers on 1800's steam locomotives, the front number plates look stupid being triangles and upside down pyrmids. What is with the tiny tiny side panels, soon you wont find your favorite riders number during a race. Black rims are gross, and the bikes look like the silly insectoid cockroach transformers of today. Bleech. The late 70s-90s bikes were the best.
IMHO, the curtains (in this context, the shrouds) should always match the drapes (aka: the tank). Always! Only the early Hondas get a slight pass.
The first time I saw an 82 yz250 I thought it was missing a headlight bulb.
The first time I saw the slope nose CRF, I thought there was something wrong with it. ..and I still do.
That's my 2 cents.
Yes that 09 front fender is horrible looking. It's like we got to come up with something new.... humm just do what ever.
I would have thrown in the ATK.
yea i was just waiting for it to come on the screan.....
The late ATK thumpers with the goofy single side mono frame where the backbone wrapped around the side of the tank.
Funny thing is,---nobody is throwing them out. :)
I rode an Aprilia sxv550 supermoto and it was sick as hell. Love the styling too. The 91 and 92 RM's are prob in my eye's some of the coolest looking dirt bikes ever made. Reminds me of the crazy old school stand up jet ski's from the era.
Like you, I'm a black n yellow fan of late 70s early 80s YZs, but the 81 125 and the 82 lineup w radiator on forks deserve honorable mention. My favorite bikes of all time , except those few models
I disagree with most of what you said. except I agree canam 1980 samsonite version is ugly ( this is my favourite bike). quiet, light, low sweet power, easy to start what more do you want? Just take off the square number plates and it looks great . I have owned a few of your picks including husaberg (arg
guably a copy of of Honda works bike of 1980 ish. arguably the most desireable bike of all time and you call it ugliest?
kawasaki 1980
The late model Can-Am’s are pretty damn good bikes. It really just takes dialing the rear suspension in because the shocks tend to fade pretty quickly. Ohlin gas charged shocks seem to fix the issue. The COG is very low and they don’t feel cheap like a Japanese bike of the era. They’re almost like a Maico but with a very fast electric style motor. When I started racing mine in 2011, I was told that they were garbage but I actually improved on mine with a bent rear shock and only springs for suspension. People took notice and more started showing up at the track. Between the MX4-MX6, the MX5 I feel is better. Bing Carb and a Supertrapp from the factory, which I believe that the supertrapp helps with the power band. Guys rave about their hams because they’re such a good bike.
You are right about that
The 07-10 KTM's are the #1 ugliest bike ever made even by KTM standards. No side panels for numbers, weird shaped ugly shrouds, and the grossest front fender to ever grace a dirtbike.
Oh man, I kind of liked the newer Husabergs - but then again, I have landed on my head a lot.
LOL me too!
@@josephtecumsehwaterspoon. I found some of my American dream by never paying attention to politics. Then when I achieved what I did, (making 6 figures from my one car garage), some marxist prick got elected and told me "You didn't build that!". I have been obsessed with the falling of humanity every since,---but I am not living my life the way I want. I am contemplating at this time to shut it all off, all the news, totally ignore the bastards, and live the rest of my life the way I want for as long as I can. I just don't want to be the last one to find some American dream.
85 KTM should never be on that list, neither the KX ......You must have been beat hard by a couple guys that had the rear fender bikes. They are RAD !
Check out the ROKON from back in the mid to late seventies it had a pull start like you would a lawn mower was the ugliest yellow and design you would ever see had an automatic transmission too it looked like it weighed 500 lb 🤣
I agree with all the ugly bikes. Not the 91 RMs and the Berg. The Husaberg was so crude it's beautiful.
Good fun list. I own a pristinely restored 84 KX250. I always say that they are so ugly it makes them beautiful. On a side note a NOS rear fender for one currently goes for around $1,000.00 USD.
WOW! That is an expensive fender.
I remember going to Kawasaki shop back in the day and thinking how cool those bikes looked because they were unique. Then when they changed in 85 I thought that was the absolute best. Now they are ugly beautiful.
You forgot to include the 1986 Hurricane 250 ..... 🤣
honestly I was with you for most of this but I believe the pink TMs were some of the prettiest bikes of all time
There is more "Big ugly trash can silencer" on a modern MX bike than under my car.
I like your vids, Tony, and this one is fun with, yeah, looks being subjective, one rider's ugly is another's beauty, I suppose. But for me, a fan and rider in my teens in the Seventies, O my, you can't beat the bikes of that era. I will forever remember in awe seeing an RM125 in '76 being rolled off a trailer at a track. But it was the same with all of them, really, the Yamahas and the Hondas and, being that I was an American teen in West Germany at the time, all the European war horses, too. And re the original Euro scramblers, sure, they look like basic brutes, but that was the game, sporting fisticuffs. Back when riders wore leathers for their battles in the woods.
I agree. Pretty much all the bikes of the seventies have a raw appeal that is hard to discount.
I thought the 90s Husaberg’s were beautiful (graphics aside, first thing I did was pull the graphics off) the Joel Smets factory bike you show with the dark green tank was stunning... I will jump on board and agree about the 2000 model though, that was awful... The pink TM though is again stunning, I guess you didn’t see a lot of them in the states but the factory bikes looked so good...
....the liquid cooled YZ....the 125H and the 125/250J....bluh!!!
I personally think the Aprilia looks pretty aggressive 😉 Seeing more of the frame looks cool (dinky side plates) and overall this bike just looks very progressive and forward thinking. 🤘🤘🤘
That Aprillia is a work of art and a thing of beauty. I want one for looks alone
I remember riders wearing pink back in the day.
Yea, Broc Glover and "JT race wear" started that trend. I got sucked into it. I had a pair of "Gear race wear" tiger striped pink/black striped riding pants. I gotta say though, they were the most comfortable riding pant I ever used.
With the tm, I think that's a little unfair because it's pink. Like everything was purple and pink in the early 90s
My picks:
Cannondale MX, ATK's, and something I previously owned......the BMW Husqvarna's.
Old Maicos with the 'coffin' tank...I have a 70 degree Husaberg, a thing of beauty, now very sought after!
Come on no hangnail front fender plates for Honda in the 80s the 81 Honda was especially ugly
LOL I do think that is the worst front plate EVER but I actually liked the looks of the rest of the 1981 CRs
@@TheMotocrossVault of course you do
You are a Honda guy
I would clump most of the modern bikes from the early 2000's to present as the ugliest do to homogenized look of all them. You could easily switch the plastics from one brand to another and wouldn't know the make. I liked the uniqueness of the bikes of the 70's, 80's and 90's and I think they get better looking as time goes on.. Thanks Toni for keeping us engaged with the videos you put out!
I agree with you except for the 10th place Yamaha that I think looks awesome and the Aprilla 450 is weird and 'trying too hard' but I wouldn't say it's ugly like the others. Also you called these later Husabergs v twins (th-cam.com/video/MgHRhqNs1jY/w-d-xo.html) but they're singles.......its their 70 degree engine that takes a 500 cc KTM engine and increases displacement to 565 cc but the biggest change is moving the crank up and back so the cylinder is canted 70 degrees forwards. This crank move similarly moved the c of g UP but CENTERED it so a 570 handled like a 450 and a 450 handled like a 250 type of thing ( th-cam.com/video/djgl83e7zOA/w-d-xo.html). I always loved the look of those and even the 2004 era Husabergs (th-cam.com/video/Z4y53N80Kcs/w-d-xo.html) you didn't like, but to each their own. That 2004 style did look not so nice back in 2000 when they had the weird tank side panels with the 3 holes in it....but you can see the 2004 had nicer plastics with overall the same shape/design. So I only disagree with you on those 4 bikes ('10 Yam, '04 Hus, '70 deg Hus', Aprilia 450/550) and 2 of those actually comprise 1 spot in your list (the two later generations of Husabergs you mentioned after the one I DO agree is ugly - the original).
This was a fun vid! I think the Can-am should have been first 😂. Personally I always thought Honda and Suzuki had the best looking bikes over all through out the years. 👍
I had a 1983 KX-125 when I was 15 years old. I thought it was gorgeous! Lol! Fast too!
Agreed, I loved the looks of the ‘83 KXs!
Another excellent video. You are definitely the “Eddy Trunk” of dirt bikes, a ton of knowledge.
RMs (RMZ) should be all yellow with a blue seat.
aw man, i think the Aprilla looks killer. and yeah, the kx125's looked kinda weird with one radiator. i thought the 250 looked good but those fenders were kinda dumb, plus mud race they pack up with mud something feirce. good reveiw, thanks!
the 83 kxs don't look good till u see one in person..the gold and green is awesome looking..I owned on in the 80s and it was beautiful
1979 CR 125 with its enormous front wheel. It looked like someone built the bike from scrap parts. 1981 CR’s with snow shovels for front number plates
....flip yeah.....81 CR Honda. Disgusting...
The 82’ YZ’s with the bar mounted radiator was not a great looking bike either.
@@deborahchesser7375 Agreed. Hannah wasn’t a fan either. After Howerton smoked him one moto, Bob put a hammer through the radiator lol
Ok Vault man, You got the top three pretty damn sraight and I have most of these bikes in real life. You are way off on the KX 82-84 wuth the rear fenders. They are Green supreme man and everyone in the comments thinks so too. So you failed us with the kawis man. Other than that, decent job. Believe me the Can Am should be first but sure thing no man wants a pink TM dirt bike but if you did a color change it is not bad looking. On my Can Am, I ride the sheeet out of mine and it is so weird that it is a serious respectable bike once your on top of that thing !!
"everyone in the comments thinks so too"
Hey man, don't make me part of your support group. You have no idea what I think. I will tell you what I think about ugly bikes. They became ugly as soon as the 4-stroke was forced on the industry. I have a 2019 YZ250 2-stroke, with that broken bird beak, cartoon transformer ridged, arrow tipped nonsense, and I am replacing it with a normal 2014 model. Yes, of course, the hole pattern is different. Won't stop me. I know how to do simple math, and have a CNC mill for a perfect job. I cut the stupid arrow off the back of my rear fender too. Looks so much better. All bikes today, are ugly, because the art left function and went in meaningless directions. I promise you, the artist can't even explain it. Abstract art is worthless, and ugly on a functional bike. Bat Mobile. I think the trash can silencers are ugly as all swamp too. The 4-stroke is ugly for a function though, because the EPA could care less if the sport dies. That is pretty damn ugly to me.
I have a 2019 YZ250 2-stroke, with that broken bird beak, cartoon transformer ridged, arrow tipped nonsense "front fender"
That was a great list.👍
Loved the looks of the kx back then and still to this day. A sweet looking Bike!
FACT
No
Kawi’s have always been sexy
I definitely wouldve had the RM in top 3. The white shrouds, blank tank, weird seat etc was just awful. I didnt mind the last version of the Husaberg in the dark blue but yeh the rest were ugly.
I probably wouldve had the 1998 ktms on the list as well... just SO much plastic!!! In my mind every bike that had big blobby shrouds is immediately gross.
Modern graphics are the stupidest looking for all motorcycles
In my opinion the Husqvarna tc449 should have
made the list. whit the shovel shaped fenders.
I was close to putting it on there for sure. Those Italian Huskys were all weird as heck
@@TheMotocrossVault Instead of two Husabergs you could have taken at least one italian Husqvarna. 😉 I liked the Husaberg style since MJ 2000 and still got my 2011. So now I'm really sad. 😅
Disagree with the KX but the rest are spot on. I would have added some of the purple crap that came out in the mid-90s.
I almost put the 1995 CR on there but they have grown in me a bit over time.
most of the after market graphics and seats were purple too people paid $$$ for it!
Have to disagree... Kawi has made some great looking bikes, but that number plate on the rear fender was a big mistake. Different? Yes. Attractive? No.
Haha, when I saw the title of this video, I knew my 2000 RM would be on the list
#BarnDoorShrouds #SnowShovels
I have a 2000 as well
Lol, I thought the same thing about my Kawasaki
Thank you Tony for your compilation of ugly MX-bikes. I tend to agree with you in most cases, this clip certainly provides perspective on what 'good design' was in its own time. One must not forget that scramblers evolved from road-bikes, and that motocross is a pretty new sport considering the time motorcycles have been around. At least in its more extreme form as it has been for these past 30 years or so. And it is still changing, which means that the bikes are always evolving.
I loved those 83 Kawasaki’s. They look even cooler today.
So did I.....very cool look those ‘83 KXs
The KTM actually had the radiator hidden under the tank not the forks. I'd like to own one of those
Modern moto x bikes are boring and bland....give me the bikes from the late 70s /early 80s ANY day
The aprilla looks beautiful
any twin spar aluminum frame is first place in UGLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good picks but I’d have to put the late 80s Yamaha lipstick pink and white YZs. 🤮
I loved the KX250, RM125, and Ktm125. AND IF THE tm WAS RED IT WOULD BE BEAUTIFUL
I'd say I don't agree with the 91 RM, but I kinda do....why.... because they didn't commit to the look, but they did in 92 and IMO, one of my favorite RM years in looks alone, same overall appearance, but the sear pattern is bright purple instead of that faded looking lavender 😅
Also, that Aprilia MXV is dope, and I've wanted one for years, those things are nasty as hell and were banned by the AMA 😅
Edit: and I loved the early 90s TM's ! 😂
It was the early 90s man....hot pink, neon colors...man those were fire! I'd die to have one in mint condition.... maybe even more so than the Aprilia 🤣
I remember reading Super Hunky's reviews on the top 10 worst dirt bikes of history things like:
Shock springs that would fade on a busy barroom door.
Electrics that would have trouble lighting off a .049 Cox model airplane engine.
The rear end flopped like there was a hinge in the middle of the frame.
It'd get into a high speed wobble at 15 mph.
Suspension that did little more than hold the bike up.
Handling like a shopping cart full of bowling balls with one locked wheel going down a flight of steps.
and On and On......
AHAA Haa Aha haa Ahaaaaa
I pretty much agree with that list. Maybe the YZF is't that bad, I find the big shroud on just one side of the YZ 90 worse. Yamaha likes pointy shrouds. In the 70 CZ allways looked horrible. The shrouds of the first watercooled 125 of 81 looked ugly, allthough it was super trick and advanced back then. Those "frogger" type rear fenders were ugly even when I saw them in the '80. Something they picked back up from some bikes in the '70. Some modern mistakes are the 09 honda front fender. And the look of the husqvana 17 up models. Some brands just don't have tast. Whenever plastics get too pointy/spikey it looks bad in my opinion.
Wow I'd like to believe that I influenced tony on trying this type of video although I mentioned to try the video of the worst running worst built production bikes ever made but your vid idea is very similar and I predicted that a video with a rise/fall narrative may net one many views quickly and seems u have gotten alot of views for only being 2-3 week old video as of now and I actually had a big time advertisment commercial before the usual intro and I don't remember that b4 cuz maybe it got more views there are bigger advertisements on this episode of your channel now....lol
Had a Kim 125 in purple and mint green,surprised it didn’t make your list,early nineties model methinks,my favourite bueatifull bikes of all time were those splitfire Honda,s ridden by Jeremy McGrath
TM (Aka: WTF)
Me, at the dealership: Is that some of Suzuki's ugliest front plastic paired with Honda's ugliest-ever sub-section, but in putrid pansy pink?
Salesperson: Yes; but check out this kick stand!
I always thought the 1974 Suzukis were ugly.Maybe its the low pipe.Hondas were ugly until about 89.Yamaha didnt figure it out until they tried coping Honda in 1996.Same with Suzuki.And Kawi turned it around in 1990.The Cagivas were pretty trick looking for the time in like 1988.As a whole though I think Yamaha still makes the ugliest bikes still today because they went back to their Yamaha ways.Tough bikes but their side number plates look like they cut the off of a 1993 YZ 80 and removed the front of the panel.
That 2010 YZ 450 should be much higher up this list. Missing from your list are those ugly butterscotch KTM's of the mid-'90's. Good work, Tony !
I think you did a great job of that. Love your videos mate, keep it up 😎
Thanks
I come from Italy and the Aprilia rxv is a crap it had a mess of engine and chassis problems, Motards were bought, there are many more 500s than 450s! But it is a very powerful bike with a lot of low RPM Power👍🏻🇮🇹💓
Going down the youtube rabbit hole brings me here.
I worked in a Can Am shop in High School 77 to 81.
They were everything you said lol.
Fast, ugly as sin and handled like a wheelbarrow.
My 1982 KTM 495 down voted your video
😂😂😂
I thought the 1979 Suzuki RM bikes with the duckbill fenders are pretty ugly but not as bad as the 83 Kawi.
You may not like the kxs number plate fender. but at my local track in Australia the suzuki guys were buying oval front plates and pop riverting them to the rear mud guards to get the same look.
Kawi's rear end.
Horrible. My 78 had gold swingarm and a different shade of gold fork lowers. But it was a beauty queen compared to that.
I don t know, but beside the KX rear number on the tail , I found most of them different, exotic and perhaps good looking too .
Man I love the way the new Yamahas look. They look aggressive and fast. With aggressive lines. I will say though. The way they engineered the plastics to fit, is horrible.
I agree with you on the good looking Japanese motorcycles and the bad ones but how can you expect the Germans or Europeans to build the same styling as the Japanese?? You are used to Japanese bikes so that's why you like them the most. Mercedes and Toyota are never gonna look the same that being said it does not make Mercedes a bad car.
Its amazing how we are all different. I think the 1991 suzuki rm is the coolest mx bike ever. Very radical.
91 Cr Honda, made a beautiful bike look garish. 98-04 Ktms , 77-78 Yz , 82 Yz ,