mileage update thread
 

Its been awhile since a mileage thread has surfaced, I'm curious what Jared has now, and what Trip has on the BMW, Gasman on the HD, and shit Marko should even have 5 or 10 miles on his since the last thread:lol

My cbr is a tick over 19,000 now, around 19,200.

Jared is pushing the 5,000,000,000 mile mark.
Marko is pushing the 5 mile mark


My CBR is at 36k
My KLR is almost at 19k

Thought I had more but I'm only at 26 and change :(

I iwll turn 60k on the priller in a week or 2 and am at a whopping 2k on the buell but am taking it out for a ride tomorrow.

any unexpected engine work on the cbr?

Did you put all 60k on the priller? There's a Tuono local to me I looked at earlier today.

I'm at something like 8K on the 636. Not bad for a bike that's spent the vast majority of its life in storage.

yup, bought it new in 03, and have had it ever since, I did over 30k the last 2.5 yrs between my longish commutes racking up the miles then a few weekend trips and the twf rallys. I am hopin got finish the season over 70k and my goal is to hit 100k on it

any trouble other than the electrical/stator/charging issue you had?

not realy, had some EFi issues early on but that was all warantee stuff. Now its just wear and tear sort of things. Just replaced the steering head and front wheel bearings. The suspension can use some sprucing up but is plenty fine for commuting/touring, I just wont push as hard in the twisties with it. The rotax motors pare prety muc bullet proof, its just all the crap bolted onto them :lol:

The DRZ died at 23500 I think... it's going to be reborn in a couple weeks... but won't see touring duty... well maybe the TAT..

Nope, regular maintenance. I'm dreading doing a valve clearance soon

Busa - 69,9ish
TLR - 32,300ish
BMW - 31,300ish
KLR - 35,900ish

I'll be tacking on close to 9,000 on the KLR in a month and a half. Poor Busa and TLR have been neglected. LOl

I'm not pushing shit. This year will probably suck for miles... I'll probably do half of last year due to work. We'll see. I'm trying not to dwell on it so I don't get pissed. I'm going to be in a much better place by end of summer with the bills. MUCH BETTER. Concentrating on that instead cause it's a happy thought.

Since I got the Ultra April 2010 I have close to 10k on it for me. I hope to have about 15K added on after this summer I got the bike at 14,3ish and she is about to push over the 24K mark soon. Perhaps get her put away this fall with nearly 30K hopefully over.

Don't you work? if so where the hell do you find time to have four bikes with a total of 170kish miles? Either you don't work or your like a 100 y/o....
:dvrofl:

He goes to lunch like 1,500 miles away :lol:

And? Wait until you see what I have planned for the July 4th weekend. Well, you'll see *after* I get back anyway. ;)

To be fair Cave, a few of the bikes had some mileage on them when I bought them.

The Busa I got brand new, so all 69k is mine. (bought new August 2003)
The TLR had 4k, so 28k+ is mine. (bought in December 2000)
The BMW had 26k on it, so 5k is mine. (bought November 2010)
The KLR had 34k on it, so almost 2k is mine. (bought September 2010)

I can still claim 105k worth of miles though on my own, which is still plenty respectable I think. :)

Yes, I do work. No, I'm not 100. LOL. I work for a great company that puts up with my month long vacation antics, and well, I do ride 1500 miles for lunch on occasion. :lol

3,899 and not counting

I'm at 9303. Considering I was at 8161 on 10/15/10, I'm doing poorly this year. However, that's because my priorities have changed.

My "pleasure mileage" has been VERY low, almost non-existent this year. I've only ridden for field calls at work, as I'm trying to get out of debt as fast as possible. Riding the bike for field calls actually helps with that since I'm getting 50+ mpg and get paid 48 cents per mile while riding the bike. If I drive the car, I get an extra 3 cents per mile, but the car gets half the gas mileage, so the bike is the better option.

If I could find a way to reasonably rig a large pizza carrier on the back of the bike, I'd use it while working my second job. Unfortunately, I sometimes take very large orders and there's no way that would work on the bike. I'd have to pass those large orders off to other drivers, which would be detrimental since the larger orders generally result in larger tips.

So, don't look for me to win any mileage contests this year.

I'm sitting at 19,551. I hope to get 20,000 before this year is over. Should be able to but with all the rain we've been having (with flooding), it's not been a good year to ride.

Me too! And I'm over due, so it needs to be sooner rather than later.

I've done this before :)

I'm at 36k for my 30k valve job, I checked them at 22k when I got the bike so I'm betting its cool, just not in a rush to do it. The KLR is over due for it too..

VFR - 50,359
ER-6N - 4,???

Luckily there is hardly ever anyone with a VFR that says their valves where out of specs. I checked 4k ago or so, all within specs. There's guys that have 100k and just checked theirs.

How many of those 50k are yours?

I checked the SV at 16k and they hadn't moved. What a bitch of a job that was. Next one, I'm just bringing it to Oneida Suzuki and paying them to scrape their fucking knuckles.

[QUOTE=tached1000rr;476849]How many of those 50k are yours?[/QUOTE


29,710. This pic was taken when I brought here home so maybe 10 miles or so need to be added. Hell maybe more than that "A" tripometer. I can't remember.

http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/l...uges3Small.jpg

You think your bike is a bitch to work on. :lol I have to take apart half my bike to check my valves. No wonder dealerships rape use with an $800 or more labor charge.

I check the GS valves every 6k, it's super easy. :lol:

What's the recommended interval for the GS?

I think 12k. It's too easy to do when I do an oil change, so I do it every oil change. I have adjusted them too, stupid simple. The new overhead cam one is suppose to be 100x harder.

beat me to it and god forbid he has a hankerin for some maine lobster :lol:

I heard he once wanted fresh crab so he road up to Alaska, then hit the fast button and skimmed his bike on top of the water retrieving crab boat pots full of opilio crab. Then rode back to Texas with them still alive and ate them, whole and alive. Sig, captain of the northwestern wasn't pleased

Sig is never pleased though :lol:

I hate you

You can come check the valves on my SV. Hell, do the Buell while you are at it too! Thanks.

Yeah, um, no.

Oh yeah?! My Valve job on the 954...:lol:

Oh and I picked up the ZX12 last month with about 10,800 Miles on it. Now I think there's something like 12,200 on it or something like that. It's rained so much lately, I'm forgetting what the odometer even looks like let alone what's on it:idk:

at least you have plenty of room to work there :lol:

I feel sorry for tye 6th gen guys. They have to keep takening and putting back in their cam shafts to check their valves.

Fuck THAT :eek:

Incidentally, Peter Egan just happened to write about valve adjustments in this month's CW

Unless your engine has set screws I wouldnt fuck with the valves. Ive hardly seen or heard someone say their shimmed valves were out of specs. Most that do adjust them are the OCD bikers.

I expect to have to swap shims on my cbr, it has a very slight tick. Others have told me they don't hear it, but I do.

I'm at 216,622..... still going strong! :whatwhat:

I have a tick but all my valves are within spec. Do you have a flapper valve on your airbox? They can make a noise flapping open/close.

There's Mr. Iron Butt. :rockwoot:

Besides the case swap after the get off, how often do you do your valves and how often have they been out of spec?

I usually check them every 30k-ish or so, since they rarely ever move. Had a couple exhaust valves out of spec at 100k and that's been the only real adjustment. I need to check them again though... I've been lazy, lol

This is true. It actually took place in my basement. Just sat in front of the high powered Wheel Barrow in a chair with a few beers at my side:lol:

The 954 didnt even make it to the first adjustment. Which is why it was split in half. Multiple super tight exhaust valves. One was pushed further than it could handle.

Sounds like the factory didn't do a good job setting the valves as I'm gonna guess the 954 uses shims.

Yep, shim under bucket. I've talked to other 929/954 owners who had to really keep on top of valve adjustments. Not to mention the cylinder scoring/oil consumption problems many of the ones I've seen deal with. I love that model but they seem to carry a lot of baggage.

Are they wheelie'ing their 954's?

That's what I was immediately thinking.

R1's were known for running on no oil and F'in cylinders up. But guess what, only when running wheelies for miles. Cause, the oil pick ups, faced forward in the oil pan.

Werent the cbrs better as stunt bikes because of how the oil pickups were situated?

I think so. I was just stating another problem of a bike where the bike is blamed for it not "doing something correct" because against popular consensus it wasn't designed for stunting. Lol

Possibly. The weird thing though? I know of at least one other person with a 954 who wheelies the shit out of it and just beats on it in general...Trouble free as far as I know:idk:

I cant remember where the oil pick up was situated when I had mine out:scratch:

Anyway, I'm not saying these bikes ended up in this shape because they were so well taken care of. I always got a vibe from mine that it lead a pretty hard life before I owned it. The Mechanics I've talked to just seem to think they dont stand up to abuse, or even poor maintenance as well as others.

The oil pickup in the sump can be reversed so that it pulls from the rear of the sump where all the oil sits when the bike is on its rear wheel. It also helps because most suntahs overfill their oil by a quart or so to make sure there is enough in the sump.

I adjusted my valves today in 15 minutes, lolz....

What a dick. :lol


I'd rather it be some what of a challenge and not have to do it so often then it be easy and have to adjust every 5k.

If it makes ya feel better he squared of a tire too so its a wash LOL

I've a mound of squared off tires. No wash.

BMW, I believe, says 12k for checking the valves. I do a check every oil change (6k) while the oil is draining out of the bike because I get bored and opening up the heads is fun and doesn't take very long. I don't adjust them every time. If they are close to spec I will usually just leave them alone.

Are they threaded stems and set nuts?

set nuts, I think

http://www.r1200gs.info/howto/valve-adj.html

Ya. Thats what Im talking about.

I need to check my vehicles.

I picked up my FZ last Labor day weekend with just under 17k on it and it's now at...21,5ish. I haven't really done much riding lately. I was busy with school when the weather was nice and now it's so freakin hot most days, I've only done a couple 100 miles trips the last 2 weeks. After the 7th I probably won't take a pleasure ride for 5 weeks, that's my summer quarter and they're cramming 10 week courses into it. It's gonna be the suck!

Been there and done that. Sucks for those few weeks but is nice when its done.

if the weather holds up here I will turn 60k on the priller in a few days

I've rode less than 250 miles this year. No desire to ride. I bet I don't even get 1k this year.

me and GM need to get back out there and get ya out. maybe another run to centralia

May I ask why you own a bike?

Gas ain't coming. He never has more than 15 or 20 minutes away from work.

No, you may not.

True, his schedule is worse than mine.

We do have a pretty killer trip planned to northern PA if he ever has a free weekend to get out here.

Then Ill tell yoi to sell your bike so someone can actually enjoy it.

Something I could make a day trip out of or a litlte too far?

Day trip might be pushing it but it's probably doable depending on when we would hit the road.

North eastern PA is easier for me, I can be in the pocono region in just about 2 hrs or less on the bike

I'm talking directly north of my place...about 3 hours up Rt 15. Might as well call it NY state. We'll end up about 10 miles from the PA/Ny border.

thats just more slabbin on 80 for me, wouldnt be too bad

True....we do cross right under I-80 near Williamsport.

yeah, at this rate I won't get another 100 miles on mine :S
stupid fucking flood.

change of plans. williamsport is 220 miles from me

pack your bags.

Actually where 80 crosses 15 is lewisburg I think.

Looks like its a little west of 81 on the map.

I wouldn't say that.

Williamsport is. not sure about the other town.

Truth... I worked 13hrs thursday, got 7hrs off, 3 of which I slept, now I'm back in till for another 12hr day probably.

It blows... I know...

I figure I'll have half the riding season as last year but should have half the bills by the end. So that's the positive side I'm trying to stay on.

God, I want to take another trip so bad. I am really tempted to blow off work and go to the BMWMOA.

Now you know why I take several smaller trips along with the big trip every year. Once it's in the blood, you can't get it out!

yeah, i am itching to takeoff again. I am going after my IBA cert in September.

I'll be riding to Sturgis this year. :panic: I'm not going to BMWMOA - they are sending four team rather than five. Not going to lie, I'm not upset.

Not going back to SD anytime soon, that place sucked.

I'm going for the experience, there is more to this trip than hanging out in SD. I've already been there, I understand. :wink:

tomorrow morning on my way to the WTC I will turn 60k:boobs:

I don't want that experience either. I could of went to Sturgis, not during the biker week thing. I avoided it like the plague. I really really want to go back to Utah and Colorado though. Still trying to convince my wife to go with me, so I can go back. LOL

I like bike week stuff, i went to daytona a few years back and had a blast, a solid good time.

I just want to go for a ride, even around the block.
Hell, at this point I'd be happy sitting on my bike making vroom vroom noises!

Tripped 20K today, sitting about 20,2XX. Nice little excursion today to WV with some friends. They continued south and we came back north through PA and got soaked! Was a good day with 417 miles clocked. Had it not been for the rain holding us up, we could have went further.

I'd love to add some more miles. Sadly clutching with one figure sucks and my red stallion is in pieces right meow.

fuck... looks like I'll not be riding again until this time next year at the earliest... probably March 2012...

the motor I had lined up for the DRZ was trash... really don't want to part her out... so unless I can find another $600 motor (one that's not trash) I'm waiting and saving...