How many miles can you get out of the average bike?

[Sev]

I hold to the belief that a slower revving, not built for weight savings and low horsepower for the engine size motorcycle will last longest. While supersports will not last as long. Thus, there are going to be a lot of cruisers in 15-20 years from now...

Like any machine, a motorcycle just needs proper maintenance and care. With that, I don't see a problem with some motorcycle models going over 100,000. I know of a sportbike (a 1999 Suzuki SV650) still going at 135,000 miles. But it's worn, but still alive.

Mike.

RandyO! the vavle guides are shot tho..

Easy to replace.

[Shorts]

There are several options for gear ratios. Most Chevys come with 342s. 373s and 410s are available as well.

actually, no. most chevys come with the 3.73 gears (standard in the Z-71 package which you see on 9 out of 10 trucks) but other than that you're spot on

MMkay, they've changed it up some then in the recent years (I forget it is '07!). My Z71 had the 342s, as well as most the trucks on the ORC forum (since '99 anyway). But we tossed in a new axle with 373s when a carrier bearing esploded! I guess Chrevrolet finally listened and some of that changed what the Z71 package included, which was around the new body style time. Incidently our '99 Tahoe Z71 did have the 373s.

[Skier]

I hold to the belief that a slower revving, not built for weight savings and low horsepower for the engine size motorcycle will last longest. While supersports will not last as long. Thus, there are going to be a lot of cruisers in 15-20 years from now...

It's a fact spinning a motor fast puts more stress on it than spinning it slowly. It's rougher on a motor to have low displacement and wind the crap out of it than to have high displacement and low revs.

[gsJack]

I expect 80-100k miles from an air cooled japanese bike, a water cooled bike should go much further with reasonable care. I've owned 6 air cooled bikes, no water cooled ones yet.

Traded my first bike, a new 81 CB400T, in on a new CB750K after 6 mo and 6k miles. Put 80k miles on that CB750K.

Bought a like new CM400A in 1990 with 2k miles on it. Pulled the head at 30k miles to fix a small oil leak and ran that bike till it had 98k miles on it, no real engine work, just a seal fix that is common with older like new bikes that have sat till the seals dry out. Gave it to a friend and it has over 100k miles on it now and still runs like new.

Bought a used 85 CB650SC with 10k miles on it and put another 50k on it before I traded it in on a new 97 GS500E. The Nighthawk had started smoking rather badly when hot and I suspect it was abused by a previous owner.

Put 80k miles on that 97 GS500E and when it was totalled I bought a 02 GS500 which now has 46k miles on it and should go the 80-100k miles expected.

[Philo]

10,000 miles, thats 2000 miles a year keeping the bike for 5 years, the only people that can afford a bike work for living and have a full time job, so their free time riding a bike is limited so they have no time to add up high mileage. Any bike over 10K miles will have some engine problem issue and can't be trusted, and you have to understand a motorcycle engine revs up to 5 times faster than a car engine and that shortens the life of the engine, think of you driving ur car around at 8000rpm and at 120 mph all day, you know that engine in ur car isn't going to last long. Bikes are not designed to last forever, they are designed as a throw-away bike, they are never cost effective to repair, ur better off to replace it and buy a new one.

Let's see, I bought my 2007 Yamaha V-Star 1100 in October. That is about 5 months ago. I have a little over 6000 miles on it now and I'm getting ready to take a trip that will add about 1500 - 2000 miles. At this rate my brand new bike is going to die when it's only 8 or 9 months old!!

[motorcyclinmama]

I've had my bike for 5 weeks, and already have 1660 miles on it. It looks like according to MOTO I'll need a new one in about 6 months. Man, I financed my bike too. I guess I'll be without a bike for a long time until I finish paying for this one. That sucks cause I really love this bike to.

But it's aweful funny that my hubbies last bike had 110,000 mile (with nothing more major that brakes, new tires etc.) when he got run off the road and wrecked it. It probably would have had more if it weren't for a moronic idiot!

[slimcolo]

Harley (Panhead) pushing 400 or maybe 500, but been rebuilt a few times. (I'm 3rd generation to ride it)


That Bic vs Zippo thing again