Who's got the most miles on their SV?
 

Whos got the most miles on their sv .

how many miles can they do if looked after ,ie when do you need to rebuild the engine ect .

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I hope rictus comes along and tells us the tale of his SV. He racked up many MANY miles.

I have 35,300 miles on my 1999 SV-s. It gets new oil and filter every 5000 miles, spark plugs every 10,000, airfilter...err...every 17,000 (the miles i've owned it!!), valve check every 15,000 miles. I clean it regularly, oil bits, WD40 other bits, clean the chain every fortnight with parrafin without fail, check tyre pressures and oil level and coolant level regularly, ride it with care until its warmed up (no full throttle, no more than 5,000 rpm) and sort out the niggles before they turn into a big problem that leaves me stranded road side.

Its my workhorse, my plaything, and in some ways...a companion. Its never really missed a beat, apart form some carb-icing and a duff reg/rec. I wont be getting rid of it, even when I get my next bike.

A new life beckons for it...

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Theres a guy in the USA who used to post on here, IIRC his bike had or has done over 100,000 miles. I think that was just with regular servicing oil changes etc...

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34k on mine and (touchwood) still going strong

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just about run in i think ;)

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8k since July 08 and had a month off after my off.

Mental note...should tell insurance company annual mileage will be more than 10k

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?????????? what is this about ?????????

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There's a clause in policies where you estimate your annual mileage.

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oh ok but really you cant allways tell can you.

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I've done 15,000 miles on mine since I got it 14 months back, including 2 months being unable to ride due to accident and theft.

Oil-changes every 2.5k miles (commute 6 miles to work on it, so lots of short journies), new air-filter when it passed 15k on the clock, new chain and sprockets at 16k miles, replaced a set of discs because one of the rivets holding it to the carrier had gone and it was all floppy, new set of plugs about 6,000 miles ago (and they still look newish), and 2 sets of pads. Everything else done to the bike has been either an upgrade or just tidying it. It gets cleaned about once a week in the summer, over the winter it got a layer of acf-50 and no cleaning (apart from getting salt crap off it).

Still runs exactly how it did when I got it. Short of the engine going bang for mystery reasons, I can't see why it won't get up to the 100k mile range (and I'm going to be damned if I don't get it there when others have) with a bit of TLC.

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8k so far on mine...

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Some policies will ask for odometer readings, so they check if you claim. Also, mileage is recorded on MOT so that will tell you annual mileage. I had to bump mine up from 10K to 15K a year as I was doing lots more miles than I thought. Didn't make a massive difference to the policy premium.

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I learnt on an almost new Honda CG125 through the winter just gone. It took some serious cleaning before I sold it, I pretty much had to dismantled it to get it clean enough for selling. I won't be making that mistake again.

Only got my SV on saturday just gone, however on of the first we things the list to do are replace most fixings with either stainless steel or ally depending on what and where they are. During the process, it bike will have a real thorough clean, and ACF-50 will be applied where needed.

9k on it so far, and runs as it should. Will be giving it a full service next weekend.

I expect to get at least 100k out of it, but don't see why double that wouldn't be possible if looked after well. The only reason it might not get there, is at around 15k a year, I'll be looking for a change before I put that many miles on it!

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RTFM. Do that and it will last until it goes bang. When it goes bang depends entirely on how you use it.

I reckon I use my engine moderately hard. So if it reaches 60k I will treat it to an overhaul, as well as some other bits and bobs. Maybe.

Until then, normal servicing. And I strip and grease the chassis every year. I don't clean it.

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Im on my third Sv.

Had a 2000 road one with 60,000 miles and she never gave out.why did i sell it?
Had a race one which I changed the oil every day it was on the track.
Now i have another one, a pointy which i must put up some pics soon. Had trouble starting when i got it.... mismatched plugs from previous owner:mad:

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just over 15K

no issues that i havent caused myself :)

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I think it's "RandyO" who has 150k+ miles on his. I believe he treats his fairly steadily rather than the abuse some others get though!

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I've got 423 miles on mine

its still going strong and no signs of rust yet lol

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wait untill after the 1st service, any bolts that are touched will rust ;)

sorry:(

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I got told that it doesn't matter what you say, after 5k it's unlimited, this was by an insurance comparison website (helpline-i got thick).

Anyway mine's done 31k, i've done 1k since i had it! Hard line stuff i know, still goes strong as far as i know.

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BB junior has over 90000 miles on his curvy.

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22659 on my k6 in 23 months, he's two years old april 16 :p

ive got spots of rust but from what i can see its mainly the bolts (?) at the bottom of the radiator, lower rear suspension bolt head, i know there is a little bit of paint corrosion above the clutch cover so thats probably worse and the two allen bolts on my bar risers. other that that its completley covered in crap so cant tell at the mo

cleaned him 3 times, each time drowning the thing in acf50. it works...very well... the last time was september last year and when i had finished cleaning it looked nice. so six months on it looks...well im sure you can guess

the next clean is bank holiday coming. was thinking of taking before and after pics to prove to the acf doubters what it can do and that it works

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a tad under 60000 miles

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55K on my 03 thou and 20K on the 04 thou. All done by me. Oil changed every 5K and all servicing done by me from day one.

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http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=104703