Your bikes are used up after 10K miles!

[Kneescrubber]

Well, now I can just ask a prospective seller "Do you ever read Super Street Bike" and if yes, walk away.  

 

[Rogue]

That would prob be me, lol..... 2004 F4i currently sitting at just a little over 234,000.... running like a dream....

Thanks for the update.

I remember reading an article in Sport Bike Rider about an owner of a 1990's CBR900RR with over 400k miles on it.  The bike finally cracked a frame at 250k miles.  Owner fixed the crack, rode the next 150k miles.

Those dang Honda engines.....  

[atadaskew]

Thanks for the update.

I remember reading an article in Sport Bike Rider about an owner of a 1990's CBR900RR with over 400k miles on it.  The bike finally cracked a frame at 250k miles.  Owner fixed the crack, rode the next 150k miles.

Those dang Honda engines.....  

I think he cracked the frame when he hit a black bear on the Angeles Crest Hwy - no joke.  Amazing the rider was ok and the bike salvageable.
FYI he used (uses?) Castrol GTX car oil in it the entire time.

[bomber]

Crap.

Now I gotta sell the Nissan pickemup (167K), the Tiger (likely roll 100K next month), AND shoot myself in head (or at the very least, look for an ice flow) . . .  .

[Mr. Whippy]

I don't buy bikes as an investment, or even think about resale when I purchase. I ride them into the ground

So what is that, about 11,000 miles or so?

[Rattlehead]

........
FYI he used (uses?) Castrol GTX car oil in it the entire time.

Impossible.
Everyone knows that bikes have to have motorcycle specific oils or else they will immediately throw a rod out in disgust.  

[Papa Lazarou]

The latest issue of Super Street Bike (May, p.67) remarks that at 10K miles a streetbike's engine is done.  That it's the equivalent to 100K on a car.  It's past peak.  They say "avoid the 10K mark like the plague."    

Any links so I can take the piss? Searching the site turned up zilch.

[atadaskew]

Impossible.
Everyone knows that bikes have to have motorcycle specific oils or else they will immediately throw a rod out in disgust.  

Friday will be complete if this turns into an oil thread.

[desertxxrider]

Most of the sqidly bikes I see out here are done long before 10k.

[Windblown]

Yep, 10,000 miles on the original break-in oil and bouncing off the limiter for extended periods every weekend does them in pretty quick.  

[Rigger]

Yep, 10,000 miles on the original break-in oil and bouncing off the limiter for extended periods every weekend does them in pretty quick.  

 I agree Windblown.  I am at 30,000 kms and my vfr still pulls nicely, funny how looking after the bike, changing oil keeps it going and going and going.....

[tomek]

Thanks for the update.

I remember reading an article in Sport Bike Rider about an owner of a 1990's CBR900RR with over 400k miles on it.  The bike finally cracked a frame at 250k miles.  Owner fixed the crack, rode the next 150k miles.

Those dang Honda engines.....  

I remember that article . The dude used plain car dino Castrol GTX , he changed oil every 5 k miles , oil filter -  every 10 K miles .

[tomek]

All those engine changes are getting old , I can do it blindfolded .



No bike spec oil and filter ever , only car synthetics , whatever they have on " oil change special " in AutoZone .

Obviously bike burns no oil whatsoever ( it is  Honda engine after all ) but also is worth to point out that the oil is brown , not black , after 6-8 k miles .

[ChrisZRX]

Think about it.  A new bike every 10K, having to farkle it all over again?  That's a lot of money to advertisers...

Nobody ever said SSB had their readers best interest at heart.

[Joey Stalin]

I remember that article . The dude used plain car dino Castrol GTX , he changed oil every 5 k miles , oil filter -  every 10 K miles .

does anybody actually use "motorcycle" oil? besides HD and BMW owners who only buy HD and BMW labeled products at highly inflated prices...

[jeepinbanditrider]

does anybody actually use "motorcycle" oil? besides HD and BMW owners who only buy HD and BMW labeled products at highly inflated prices...

I've only met a handful.

[sleazy rider]

Paging MXVet to the white courtesy phone.  Ed, pick up please?  

219k on his 2004(?) FJR and climbing daily.

[thirdgenlxi]

Paging MXVet to the white courtesy phone.  Ed, pick up please?  

219k on his 2004(?) FJR and climbing daily.

234k on my 2004...... CBR, also climbing daily (it's actually warming up now as I type this, about to head out for a ride)  

[maddjack]

The latest issue of Super Street Bike (May, p.67) remarks that at 10K miles a streetbike's engine is done.  That it's the equivalent to 100K on a car.  It's past peak.  They say "avoid the 10K mark like the plague."    

 
Yeah right

Wholly crap , I am riding two grenades by  those standards

[bassjones]

Contributor to The Pace - Denise Dickinson - has 200,000 miles on her FZ-1 with the original engine.

http://newsok.com/article/3661565

http://thepacepodcast.com/archives/537 (from 2010)

http://thepacepodcast.com/archives/1819 (from a few weeks ago)

My friend, Phil has 200K plus on his Ducati Monster.