97,000 miles ?

Originally Posted by Dangerous Dave

The 750 has 98,723 miles on her (2 engines but same internal components since 2000 or 9,273 miles).

Kinda like Trigger's Broom

Originally Posted by Wayluya

Kinda like Trigger's Broom

Ha, ha... yes, but all the mechanical internals have lasted 88,000 miles plus in one engine with no problems!

what is annoying is the way Dealers concider a 5 yr old bike with 25K n the clock high millage.

I am not worrrying about the milage on my 6R i am on 1750 since december and i expect to at least double that this year alone. Just going to ride and enjoy it

This thread should be shown to people who go "im intersted in this <insert name of bike here>, but worried about the high milage...its got 14,000 miles on it"

As long as you keep up with oil + filter changes, and fix anthing when it breaks (thats fix, not bodge) then theres no reason why any engine shouldnt last any less than 150,000 miles

As said above, i don't believe the mileage of a bike describes its condition. As long as it looked after and well maintained its a good buy!

i agree most bikes have there oil changed a lot more frequent than a car so shoulkdnt see why 97,000 miles would be a problem bikes 4 years old thats less than 25,000 mile a year 2000 mile a month or 500 mile a week !

Originally Posted by daz311066

i agree most bikes have there oil changed a lot more frequent than a car so shoulkdnt see why 97,000 miles would be a problem bikes 4 years old thats less than 25,000 mile a year 2000 mile a month or 500 mile a week !

To be fair, suspension seems to go off much quicker on bikes than cars. Likewise, on most bikes, the finish generally looks much worse after 20K miles than a car (many of which look almost brand new after 50K+ with a good clean). High mileage bikes also tend to of been crashed a fair bit, even if it's just fairly low speed drops on ice etc. I think the situation with bikes being devalued so much is the number of low mileage riders who change their bikes regularly- it means there are lots of low mileage bikes on the market, so people choose those over the more used ones, unless the price on the high miler is significantly lower. You don't get many 5 year old cars (bar supercars) with only 10K on the clock, but it's fairly common with bikes. Doesn't matter too much to me as my bike is worth far more to me than I'd get in cash for it and it won't depreciate much further, so I'll just run it into the ground. That doesn't mean I won't take care of it- its just had £300+ of servicing done to it, but I don't worry too much about aesthetics and I'll use it till it goes bang and even then I'll probably just put another engine in it.