Milage on Motorcycles...

[the cueball]

I used to be worried about mileage on my bikes, hence why I took 3 years to find the perfect (for me) ZX12-R.


However, my little donkey fazer has now nearly got 20k on it, used all year road and it's running great, and I recently purchased a 25 year old Honda Pan which I used to ride nearly 15k around Europe without any issues this summer., it's now sitting with over 70k and it really opened my eyes to how good some bikes can be.


always, always buy bikes/cars on condition and gut feel... sitting in a garage for most of the year isn't always the best, service history can be fake and/or doctored... so you really need to be careful these days...


oh, and anything with a main dealer history is a no, no for me!  :rollin


I would much rather see a well maintained bike/car via specialist and owner maintenance... I've seen far too many cases of main dealers just not giving a f**k about what they're doing to 'gush' over seeing their stamps in a book...


:rolleyes

[7omly]

Two things to bear in mind.
What bike and how well has it been looked after.
A 30 odd year old ex learner Rd250 Elsie with 20 thou on it will have been snagged more than a Westminster rent boys botty.
An old BMW R80 of the same age could have 5 times that mileage but have been serviced by an anally retentive OCD sufferer who almost has a stroke if he gets caught out in the rain on it. Common sense tells you before you buy it how well it's been looked after.

[anutz]

looking at a GSXR 750, seem to commonly have 10-15K or 40K on them, but as you say, and many others do, depends on how its been looked after....


about a 1000$ difference between the ones that have done more as well so its not a cheap decision..