8 Hideously Ugly Motorcycles That Bikers Love To Hate

Supreme function. Superior marriages of design and engineering. Oozing cool. These are the phrases you want to use if you’ve spent your coin on a bike. Motorcycle design and execution are an important part of the aesthetic of biking — and these eight bikes don’t make the cut. If you’re a biker or a bike enthusiast, check out these eight hideously ugly motorcycles that you’ll love to hate. Heck, you probably already do.

Honda Rune

If camels were a motorcycle, you’d have the Honda Rune. This long, uncomfortable looking piece of metal is perhaps the most popularly dissed bike. People just love to hate on the Rune. Commonly described as one of the ugliest motorcycles ever, the Rune is the opposite of Honda’s Cub and the Fireblade — both beautifully designed and executed compact bikes.
BMW K1

Simply put, there’s no way to make this Beemer beam. The BMW K1 looks like a bike that a dirty cop might ride in an awful late ’80s anime. Garish casing and the “K1″ paint job on the side — written brightly in a color that can only be described as “neon banana” — the K1 fails to look anything but cartoonishly silly.
Buell RR1000

Without its casing, this bike looks like a Transformer that got mad and gave up on transforming halfway through its transformation, and settled on becoming a motorcycle. In this capacity, the Buell RR 1000 looks unorganized, ill-designed, and a bit like a robotic prototype on steroids. Sold and typically ridden with its original casing, the RR 1000′s you see in the show rooms are still an eye sore, being vaguely reminiscent of Judge Dredd.
Honda CX Turbo

Another Honda failure, this bike is also too long, though its profile shape is the least of its worries. While the stripe colors and Honda font on the body are kitschy and retro (in the same way that skating rinks and VHS tapes are), an unmanned Honda CX Turbo looks like an ugly grasshopper with wheels.
Ducati Monster

It’s a bike that only a jerkface could love. With an huge exhaust pipe and a seat that wants to stab you in the stomach as you’re cruising on the open road, this little crotch rocket is fit for man nor beast. The metal work on the sides looks like a hyper-modern art installation, and the frontpiece looks like the handle of a gas pipe.
Harley Davidson Sportster Boattail

With an experimental fiberglass tailpiece, the Harley Davidson Sportster Boattail has a troublesome name, and an uglier design. Commonly called a musclebike, the boattail seat on the Sportster was wildly unpopular after its release.
Yamaha TDM

For a ’90s touring bike, this Yamaha is a disgrace. Entirely too tall, the TDM’s screen looks like the front of a space pilot’s helmet. The bad design affected sales, and each incarnation of the TDM has updated the bodywork considerably — though never arriving at a workably beautiful (or even acceptable) model.
Ducati Hypermotard

This bike is even uglier than its unfortunate name. Its exhaust pipe is strange, snaking around the bike, and the exposed engine gives the bike a disorienting visual. The wheels look like they belong on a Segway in the future, if the future was designed by lonely BMX fans.