Highest mileage bike you've ever owned?

[mrmaggit]

I still have my second ever bike, a Suzuki GS400B, with 53,000 miles on it, had a new cam chain at 28k.

I've had two big twin Harleys both do over 50,000 miles.

[barry sheene]

1999 Tiger, 78K, then I lunched the gearbox.....

[RemaL]

my 600 Fazer has all of 7000 miles on it. ran well

[doogalman]

I used to depatch and the highest mileage bikes i owned were;
Honda CX500(Plastic maggot), 350,000 miles engine was still running good when i sold the engine to another despatcher, who used it for another year.
Kawasaki GT550, 300,000 miles. Totally knackered. Would barely start as there was next to no-compression.

As a footnote we used to average 75,000 miles a year.

[3doorPete]

33K - my current C90 - runs like a tractor - ie - like every other c90. Will probably do another 33K trouble free miles as well.

Before that - 29K - GPX250R. Ran perfectly with no oil use, until the day I wrapped it around a motorway bridge support at 85mph on the M27.

[rumpelstiltskin]

Just bought a ZX12r,mileage is 37,000.Never had a bike with anywhere near that mileage on it,but i have to say it feels identical to my last ZX12 which had 6,500 miles on it!

[m3psm]

doogalman said:

I used to depatch and the highest mileage bikes i owned were;
Honda CX500(Plastic maggot), 350,000 miles engine was still running good when i sold the engine to another despatcher, who used it for another year.
Kawasaki GT550, 300,000 miles. Totally knackered. Would barely start as there was next to no-compression.

As a footnote we used to average 75,000 miles a year.

I only despatched for a year but that took my GSX550 from 20k to 105k. In that time it ate 3 sets of stators and 3rd gear, but otherwise OK. My girlfriend at the time then put another 20k on it over 2 years and it was still OK when she sold it.

[Alfa_75_Steve]

yammyfan said:

xj600 is still going strong on 50k

I had a Diversion 600 way back in the late 90s.

Speedo drive cable was removed at the advice of my trusted mechanic..... due to the rate at which I was clocking up the miles.

When I sold it, it was showing around 70k miles, but had done at least another 10k on top of that.

Never needed anything other than chains, sprockets, tyres and brakes.

Great, bullet-proof commuter hacks.

[bimsb6]

i know of a yam fzx750 fazer that did over 200,000 .a cbr600 i used to service that retired at 75 k odd and i had a cx500 with 90,000 and owned a bimota kb1 with a documented 97,000 miles .

[Flipatron]

Bought a Fireblade 929 RRY with 39'000 miles and took it up to 42'000, It ran like new and was only sold due to a charge circuit problem.

[Beemer-5]

Locke said:

How did it run?

A GL1500 Gold Wing which had 117,000 miles on the clock when i bought it ans 140,000 when i sold it.

[Beemer-5]

It ran almost like new.

[Kawasicki]

kawasaki zxr400, 32k miles. Ran like a watch, economical, burnt no oil, spent a lot of time at 12,000rpm plus.

[FM]

28K on an oil cooled GSXR...never worried about things in the engine dept..the 15 year old suspension,bushes & the like were more of a concern as I learned the craft.

[SKID LID]

140k on a BMW R45 I bought new in 1981 . It has no secrets as every part has been inspected over the years. Bought as a commuter bike, now pensioned off and used when the sun shines.

[ChrisDT]

My ZX9-R Has 35,000 miles on at present and still going strong, although I am going to give it a full service soon - just for piece of mind. But it's warmed up before going anywhere and garaged - still looks in pretty good shape too!