What motorcycle do you despise? 
It’s harsh, but let’s gratuitously ridicule the Yamaha XZ550, surely one of the ugliest bikes ever made.
Hugo Wilson, editor Classic Bike (2011)

It’s the late 1980s. Pal Alan B had too much time and space when two things collided: a stolen-burnt-recovered Tenere, and Yamaha’s stillborn XZ550.
Me, I had too much space between my ears and 400 quid to waste. Which was how I ended up buying his char-grilled bitsa.
But when I came to sell Alan’s sprayed-up XT-V frankenbike in Loot (the pre-internet ebay) the phone fair blew off the wall!

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