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Question: What's the highest number of miles you ever put on a bike?
10-20K - 16 (7.3%)
20K-30K - 28 (12.8%)
30K-40K - 32 (14.6%)
40K-50K - 20 (9.1%)
50K-60K - 27 (12.3%)
60K-70K - 13 (5.9%)
70K-80K - 16 (7.3%)
80K-90K - 13 (5.9%)
90K-100K - 16 (7.3%)
100K or More (Tell us below!) - 38 (17.4%)
Total Voters: 219

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Topic: BIKE LONGEVITY POLL #1: Most number of miles you put on a bike?  (Read 11864 times)
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« Reply #40 on: April 29, 2012, 07:16:32 PM »
I have about 216,000kms on my 2004 FJR  . I didn't really mean to put that many on it. It was done by accident.


     Honest.  Lol
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« Reply #41 on: April 29, 2012, 07:56:41 PM »
Quote from: Huron52 on April 29, 2012, 07:16:32 PM

I have about 216,000kms on my 2004 FJR  . I didn't really mean to put that many on it. It was done by accident.


     Honest.  Lol


Those are all kilometers though. Your bike doesn't actually have any miles on it at all. You should sell it immediately.
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« Reply #42 on: April 29, 2012, 08:51:27 PM »
Quote from: Huron52 on April 29, 2012, 07:16:32 PM

I have about 216,000kms on my 2004 FJR  . I didn't really mean to put that many on it. It was done by accident.


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« Reply #43 on: April 30, 2012, 03:33:02 PM »
Keep reporting on these 04 FJRs. Mine's just "breakin' in" at 45 grand. Bigsmile
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« Reply #44 on: April 30, 2012, 04:17:47 PM »
1986 Concours ZG1000, 337,000 miles, retired due to running into a mess of used cooking oil dumped on the road by overturned drums in the back of a truck.

2000 Concours ZG1000 214,000 miles, sold to purchase my third Concours a 2006 it's just a baby with 69,000miles.

1978 BMW R100RS 122,000 miles, sold to purchase a later model BMW.
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« Reply #45 on: April 30, 2012, 07:29:13 PM »
Quote from: Roadhound on April 30, 2012, 04:17:47 PM

1986 Concours ZG1000, 337,000 miles, retired due to running into a mess of used cooking oil dumped on the road by overturned drums in the back of a truck.

2000 Concours ZG1000 214,000 miles, sold to purchase my third Concours a 2006 it's just a baby with 69,000miles.

1978 BMW R100RS 122,000 miles, sold to purchase a later model BMW.


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« Reply #46 on: May 21, 2012, 09:30:44 AM »
I've put well over 40k on ninja 250s, just not the same one due to bad luck (first was run over, second had a kinked frame, third looks like an utter POS but has been reliable so far).
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« Reply #47 on: May 21, 2012, 10:59:24 AM »
9,800 miles on a GS550L

2500 on a GL500 Silverwing Interstate

10,000 on a Kaw 750 Zephyr

38,000 into my current love/hate relationship with my ZG1000 Concours.

Not nearly as many miles as some of you, but the past few years on my Connie have been my most active and enjoyable biking years to date.  Thumbsup
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« Reply #48 on: June 12, 2012, 07:46:00 AM »
I had a 92 Gold Wing that I put 108,000 miles on in 7 years that I owned it. I was going to put 200,000 on it before I sold it but I got a great deal on a 98SE in an Estate sale that I couldn't pass up.
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« Reply #49 on: June 16, 2012, 06:30:13 PM »
I voted 100K+ but need to elaborate a bit.

First beemer was a 1976 R75/6 that I put 50K on in 3 years then had to sell it to pay medical bills

Next one was the '99 R1200C that was well on it's way to 100K when my brother in law totaled it at 72K.

Then came the '98 RT that I purchased about a year and half after getting the R12C.  I put 98K on it (+22K at purchase) and parted it out at 120K because it was worth more in parts than as a whole bike.

The 2000 R1200C replaced the '99 with 12.7K at purchase and now has 102K and still going strong.  

The last purchase was the 2000 opal blue RT that came to me with 12.2K on the odo and I have now added another 13K to that.  Planning on keeping both the Y-2K bikes until I'm too old and feeble to hold them up.  Bigok
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« Reply #50 on: June 17, 2012, 11:54:55 AM »
Quote from: maddjack on April 19, 2012, 01:23:44 PM

 I had a 71 Fl that ran flawless for 60k for me so I guess not all of them were bad. It even drug a hack around for a year and a half



Ditto, I put over 50k on my 1980 FLH-P plus the 18k the WSP put on it without too much trouble. AMF Harley's ran fine if you left them alone and just rode them. I put almost 50k on my 1985 K100RS before selling it for the closing cost on a house and 65k on my 2002 1200 Trophy before it was hit and totaled. My current 2009 R1200 GS has 15k on it but I bought it as a leftover in 2010 and the weathers been wetter and snowier than usual the last few years so that cut into my riding time. I tend to trade bikes quite a bit so I had a few that only saw 10k or so before I traded them in on something else. The one's I kept for any length of time got some pretty good milage on them.
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« Reply #51 on: June 21, 2012, 01:38:18 PM »
One of our members on the ZX14 site just turned 99,000 miles on his.....20 sets of tires,  a few brake pads and rotors..motor and tranny perfect!

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« Reply #52 on: June 21, 2012, 02:28:46 PM »
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That's impressive. I wonder what the numbers on the highest mileage C10 out there are, and I'm curious to see if the C14 is going to rival the longevity of it's predecessor.

From what I've seen, I'd say yes.
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« Reply #53 on: June 21, 2012, 02:35:11 PM »
Well there are already several that are over 100k.

JamminJere has got to be pretty close to 80k by now.
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« Reply #54 on: June 23, 2012, 12:24:19 AM »
I'm like a few others. I usually get rid of them and get something new when I hit the 20-40k mile mark:

1984 FXSB 5k miles on it. Bought new in Dec '85. Drunk neighbor drove on top of it
1986 Honda V45 9k miles.  Sold when transferring to Germany
1995 HD Super Glide 12k miles when I traded it for the next bike
1996 Ducati 916 32k kilometers on it. It was sold after I broke my back and was told I wouldn't walk again
1998 Honda CBR1100xx  14k miles on it when it was stolen. It was my present to myself when got out of the hospital
1994 Suzuki Bandit 28k miles when sold. Bought it with 1,400 on the odometer in 1999.  Sold it in 2003 after not riding much for 2 years.
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2005 FJR currently has 28k on it. I bought it in 2010 with 4k on it. Since I bought it I've only had 7 months of total riding time (pre-deployment training, specialization schools, and deploying to Iraq/Kuwait) and in that time I've put 24k miles on the bike.  Don't plan on getting rid of it but I do want another bike.
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« Reply #55 on: June 23, 2012, 09:11:02 PM »
186,400 kms and 10 pairs of tires. A few ccts, a couple of batteries, one R&R, two stators. Lots of oil, hydraulic fluid, some fork oil.
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« Reply #56 on: July 13, 2012, 02:35:07 AM »
70,000 on a Honda Valkyrie
101,000 on my 2005 Honda ST 1300

All since Feb of 2002.
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« Reply #57 on: July 13, 2012, 11:12:23 AM »
141k on C10 Connie....Threw the timing belt....My fault though as she warned me long before she went.


   On tires and brakes and one clutch return spring.
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« Reply #58 on: August 01, 2012, 09:32:06 AM »
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141k on C10 Connie....Threw the timing belt....My fault though as she warned me long before she went.


First I've ever heard of that happening on a C-10, every C-10 I've ever wrenched on had a timing Chain. Headscratch
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« Reply #59 on: September 01, 2012, 06:27:02 AM »
123,000 on my '91 Goldwing. NO problems. Doesn't use any oil.
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