Re: Freshening up a high-ish mileage bike
 

Keep it and run it into the ground

Re: Freshening up a high-ish mileage bike
 

If I was in your shoes, I'd change it.

There are a lot of bikes I would like to own in my life and unfortunately I don't have the money or garage space to own them all at the same time!

:smt023

Re: Freshening up a high-ish mileage bike
 

As most people have said it depends whether you really want to keep your GSXR or fancy something different.
I agree with Rictus that you need to sit down and do the costing out of replacing the bike or just tarting but also look at the long term as well, what will you lose on a replacement bike compared to running yours for a bit longer?


I've been tarting up the SV for the past 2 years, it's now on 32k. Had a paint job done on it last year and have since fitted a SRAD front end and Elka shock just to make it all feel a bit nicer
What I have spent on it I will never get back if I sold it as it's only really worth anything to me

Re: Freshening up a high-ish mileage bike
 

Hmmmm.........I don't know what I would do. I do like the Relentless Rep though, that be lovely. Chav-tastic, but lovely!

Re: Freshening up a high-ish mileage bike
 

30k, pah ;-) my Deauville has 97k on it. It would look pretty silly with a race rep paint job mind. Id say just service it properly with maybe a new rear shock at that milage. maybe even get the front forks revalved for your weight etc if you are a trackday type. Paint jobs are all well and good, but if you really want to spend money on that I'd say try a different bike that has already been tarted up so YOU don't take the hit on value.

Re: Freshening up a high-ish mileage bike
 

You could just rebuild the shock rather than replacing it with aftermarket, that will be much cheaper.
It would definately be on my list of things to look at.

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30k is nothing to a well maintained modern bike.

I'd rather have a well looked after 30k bike than one with 4k that's been owned by a knob.

My SV has nearly 27k on it and it's fine, my bandit has around 100k on it, I had a CBR1000F with 62k, and a GPZ500S with 75k on it when I sold it.

All these bikes are still going strong!:p

Re: Freshening up a high-ish mileage bike
 

You forget this is a GSX-R and already has them ;)

I dunno what to do, but if you get a paintjob what about the Jordan one? It's about the only race rep paintjob I'd get done to my bike as I can't get on with the others (either too popular, or too messy):

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...ot/jordan2.jpg

Here's a rep someone did on GJs:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...1020091239.jpg

Re: Freshening up a high-ish mileage bike
 

Nice but I prefer the Relentless rep

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T'other half bought his bike new, and so far has put 20k on it in 6 months:shock:
His philosophy is it gets to 50k or two years then he'll trade it in for a new one, which he'll probably do each and every bike.....hmmmm much prefer the bus(read zzr1400) in black anyway:rolleyes:

Entirely up to you. One of my bikes is over 34k and I have no intention of getting rid. Theres nowt wrong with it apart from th reg recs just gone and the massive crack down the fairing:eek: but hey its just cosmetic and I can't be assed putting a new one on! The other has got just short of 25k, but in its small mileage life over 8 yrs, has had 2.5k spending on it to get it back to new including a new engine, but shes mine forever, unless she gets squished into an oxo sized cube:(