High mileage

[daveclark]

Hi there, just a quickie, I believe a fzs1000 is good for high mileage? But how good are they? Are they high maintenance with high mileage? Is it worth getting one or should I hold out for a low mileage one?
Cheers Dave

[kebab19]

How good - very good for a high revving performance engine. No need to seek a low mileage example providing it's been reasonably well looked after. Although if you do buy a 75000 mile example, you'll not be able to sell it on again for decent £££, but breaking it for parts would get your money back again.

100000 mile club:
http://foc-u.co.uk/index.php/topic,6403....l#msg59285

200000 mile club:
http://foc-u.co.uk/index.php/topic,1961....l#msg14818

[solorider]

My fazer has 71k miles on it and sounds sweet, have no issues with the bike and plan a 2500 mile european ride in the summer

[AyJay]

I had the chance to look inside an ex despatch bike with 198k on the clock. Looked like new inside. Mirror finish on the cams and journals. What's astounded me about Fazer ownership is how the chassis parts have lasted - the discs on mine are still original, the rear suspension linkages are barely touched and so on, and there was no need for me to replace the downpipes on mine, I just found it easier to buy a second hand set than extract the EXUP bolts.

The Honda's and Kawasakis I've had have all lunched both discs and rear suspension by 50k. All of them, CBR600, ZX6, 2 x VFRs etc although it has to be said the quality of materials has improved hugely over the last decade or so. My ZX9 was noticeably better.

The interesting thing about FZ1 girl's Fazer records is that she only had the valves checked twice - 26k and 162k. At 162k, only two valves were out of spec.

But then, the Fazer is made by Yamaha, the company that built the R1 that Nick Sanders went round the world on and clocked up 70000 miles through deserts and swamps.

[nickodemon]

i bought one with 107'000 miles and it ran perfect. It had been ivanised and was far better performance and throttle response than a stock one i owned with 20'000 miles

[daveclark]

Thanks guys, some good interesting reading there. Thanks

[BMCfaz]

What do you consider high milage? Dealers tend to think of anything with more than 4K/year as high, so anything below 40K is, for bikes the age of most Gen1s, quite low.
If they've been looked after, I can't see anything that would put me off. With a bike like the Fazer it's more about condition than milage, and any mods that have been done that save you doing them yourself.
Just go for the best looking one you can find, there's plenty of them around, which says a lot in itself!

[AdieR]

I'd look more at it's overall condition than the mileage in itself; a looked after high mile bike is almost always a better bet than a low mileage neglected bike.

That said, what mileage are you anticipating doing?

[daveclark]

That's one of the reasons I'm asking, want be on it all the time, but with family life more like twice a year!