Going 'High Miles' on my SV.

Our own RandyO on SVRider ran over 130K miles with nothing outside of dealer maintanance, tires and chain/sprockets. he is riding a weestrom now.
He did quite a bit of off pavement riding as well, says the SV is better on trails than the VStrom.
And he is a big guy, according to his posts; not a 150 pounder.

SPannerman has a 900 diversion with 170,000 miles on it. Its had the usual servicing (been very well looked after actually) and the only major engine part to be replaced was the cam chain (and I think the tensioners too). Sounds really sweet, dosn't use any oil (at least, it dosnt burn any oil) and isnt smokey on a cold start or anything like that.

Keep a bike regularly serviced and treat it with some mechanical sympathy, and it'll last for ages...this is how I'm treating my SV, i'm hoping it'll go onto 120,000 miles without too much fussing

[Swin]

This post has certainly reassured me that my SV will be well up to my 1k a month commuting grind for a while to come!
Mostly country roads on my commute ( I dislike M-ways) and regular oil changes, hopefully it will carry on saving me over £3+ grand a year for many more years!

[yorkie_chris]

If it's saving you 3 grand a year then even if the engines blew up every 12k you'd be fine!

Originally Posted by Paul C

Our own RandyO on SVRider ran over 130K miles with nothing outside of dealer maintanance, tires and chain/sprockets. he is riding a weestrom now.
He did quite a bit of off pavement riding as well, says the SV is better on trails than the VStrom.
And he is a big guy, according to his posts; not a 150 pounder.

Thanks for that Paul:

There's a kind of mythology among many motorcyclists that bikes are tipping over the edge into scrap from about 30,000 miles. As some of the folks here have indicated, keep the oil clean and suchlike and the far side of 100,000 is well within reach.

Have a great Sunday.


Steve

Originally Posted by Swin

This post has certainly reassured me that my SV will be well up to my 1k a month commuting grind for a while to come!
Mostly country roads on my commute ( I dislike M-ways) and regular oil changes, hopefully it will carry on saving me over £3+ grand a year for many more years!

I'll keep it all crossed for you mate. Now all we have to crack is how to make you and I top the 100+ mark too...

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by Spitfire

Thanks for that Paul:

There's a kind of mythology among many motorcyclists that bikes are tipping over the edge into scrap from about 30,000 miles. As some of the folks here have indicated, keep the oil clean and suchlike and the far side of 100,000 is well within reach.

Because most motorcyclists are sunday power rangers who can't get their head around the fact that some people do more than 4 miles a week!

i have a 2000 curvy too! mine has 17-18K on it i only got it in march with about 10K on, sorry i cant get the mileage as high as you can.

Originally Posted by sunshine

i have a 2000 curvy too! mine has 17-18K on it i only got it in march with about 10K on, sorry i cant get the mileage as high as you can.

thats about twice as many miles as I've done since march I think!

[Swin]

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

If it's saving you 3 grand a year then even if the engines blew up every 12k you'd be fine!

hehe, true - National Express East Anglia would like over 3500 per year on their train service - I'm just under 30 miles north of London so I feel that a bike is fully justified.