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26-03-09, 11:11 AM

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.

26-03-09, 11:11 AM	#10
Neeja Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Who looks after their sv . 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.