Who has the highest mileage on their Fazer?

[His Dudeness]

We all know the Fazers are fairly bulletproof so I was wondering whos bike has the highest mileage? Can be any model Fazer and you don't have to have done all of the miles yourself but it has to be the original engine. Anyone got more than 100,000 on the original engine?

[snapper]

I think there was a post a few months ago about a girly in the states with over 200,000 on a gen one thou

[FuZzBoM]

I think i could have the lowest 

purchased my 51 plate, gen 1 thou in May with only.... 5000 miles on it..
It currently has 7000.

Just interested in how many years/miles service i can expect from it lol

[Tori]

I have an 04 with 15k ;-)

[FuZzBoM]

haha Exupnut has just started a LOWEST mileage thread lol.. http://foc-u.co.uk/index.php/topic,5525.0.html
Sorry to blatantly hi-jack btw.. i will keep quiet now 

[His Dudeness]

I think there was a post a few months ago about a girly in the states with over 200,000 on a gen one thou

 
200,000 thats impressive. wonder if it was on the original engine
 
 

haha Exupnut has just started a LOWEST mileage thread lol.. http://foc-u.co.uk/index.php/topic,5525.0.html
Sorry to blatantly hi-jack btw.. i will keep quiet now 

 
no prob. sure if we find the highest and the lowest we can get the average 

[Raymy]

109k on mkI 600. original.

[His Dudeness]

109k on mkI 600. original.

Tiberius Onklevaart take a bow   have you had to do any major mechanical work engine wise?

[AdieR]

my '58 plate 600 has 12,500 atm. Lad I used to work with has an '03 plate FZS6 with 3k miles.

[Slaninar]

Bought mine with 30,000 kilometres. Here it is a custom to put your mileage to 30k, whatever it really was, when selling a bike. All the bikes are sold at 30k. 

Now mileage shows above 60,000 kilometres (round 40k miles). Changed cam chain, opened engine. Valve clearences were good, engine looks nice, clean, doesn't burn oil. Hope to see another 60k kilometres. I ride from 4 to 10 thousand kilometres per season.

[alan sherman]

2000 with 62k.  Original engine, no engine work apart from a cracked clutch bracket.

[Raymy]

Dude.

Bought it as it from Gringo and done nothing except top up oil. I think it had about 80k on it at sale, or thereabouts.
It's all immaterial now, I've all but put it off the road to scrap it and break it. It's been a sturdy wee beast tho

[Lawrence]

'01 Y plate here with 38.5k.  Not all that much, but 14k of that was done in the last 6 months 

[stevierst]

My last 98 fazer 600 had 45000 on it at sale and ran like a dream. My first fazer had I think 43000 on it, and I put 30k on it in just over a year. My 2010 fz1 has 22500 miles on it, and my sons current fazer 600 has mere 20000. I'll soon put that up as I'm borrowing it for a bit. 

[Fazerider]

Mine passed 148,000 a week or so back.
(Only the first 114k was on the original engine though.)

[GringoRojo]

my old 2003 thou had 107,000 on it when I sold it to a local foccer in 2011. all miles were mine from new, original engine & just consumables required.

[His Dudeness]

Around 110,000 seems to be where they let go. I'd love to rebuild an original engine and see if it would do another 110,000

[JZS 600]

Only another 60,000 for me then!
 
I'll start saving for a new engine now,,,
 
Lets see, 12000/ year x 5 years,,,,,

[Slaninar]

Around 110,000 seems to be where they let go. I'd love to rebuild an original engine and see if it would do another 110,000

What are the symptoms? High oil consumption? Low power?

Over 90 BHP from 600 cc is a lot - no wonder they don't last nearly as much as an average car engine, which gives half the HP, in double the cc capacity.

[His Dudeness]

What are the symptoms? High oil consumption? Low power?

Over 90 BHP from 600 cc is a lot - no wonder they don't last nearly as much as an average car engine, which gives half the HP, in double the cc capacity.

That's only a guess based on what the other lads have experienced. I wouldn't be too worried about it. Sure an engine could be a write off after 10,000 miles if it's been badly treated or it could keep going forever if you're willing to put money into fixing it. Just depends on when you think it's not worth fixing.

[Fazerider]

What are the symptoms? High oil consumption? Low power?

Oil consumption on mine was about 300cc per thousand miles and there was still plenty of power, but it sounded like an old diesel engine. A change of camchain might have been all it needed, but I thought the noises were more like piston slap in which case the overhaul would have become quite expensive and time-consuming. When a cheap second-hand engine became available only a few miles away from me I figured a swap was the sensible solution.
Sadly, that unit turned out to be one with a duff second gear so I ended up swapping again a year later.

[Chillum]

Sure an engine could be a write off after 10,000 miles if it's been badly treated or it could keep going forever if you're willing to put money into fixing it. Just depends on when you think it's not worth fixing.

Mine had done 24k mile before it needed a new engine - but that was because I'd used it to learn clutchless up (and down) gear changes. It developed a nasty habit of dropping into neutral when upchanging between 2nd and 3rd - not good in the middle of an overtake  you look like a right twat sitting alongside a cage with the engine revving its nuts off