high millege but service history

[froggy128]

if your saw a bike which had high miles but full service history would you pick it over lower miles but no service history ?

[Jack_Cheese]

yeah
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[Nath]

It depends on how many miles in either case.

3k Miles doesn't really give much chance to neglect an engine, whereas 50k miles is plenty for even a perfectly-treated engine to start giving problems.

If the engine sounded okay and the owner didn't seem like a retard then I'd have no problems getting a bike with no service history.
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[iCraig]

Short answer yes, cos I have owned low mileage bikes with no SH, and they've turned out to be sheds.

My current bike has moderate miles and has a full selling dealer service history.

[Kickstart]

Hi

Depends on the actual bikes. And I would take a service history with a pinch of salt (too easy to fake, for example the last car we had that was new enough to be under warrenty the maker would not accept a stamped service book as proof of service history but insisted on the receipts).

Plenty of things that age but will not be replaced as service items until they are wrecked (brake caliper seals for example).

All the best

Keith
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[international...]

Far more important IMHO to get a younger bike (i.e. one that has seen fewer UK winters). But like someone said, really does depend on the particular bike and the owner. Also remember, fully serviced in the past does not mean that there is not a whole host of things waiting to bite you in the a55.
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[Rookie]

No but if it's been regularly serviced it gives you an impression as to the kind of rider has owned it. If they're the kind of person who might fake the SH, you should spot them a mile off.

[instigator]

I don't really want to touch a bike over 20k miles but am not 'afraid' of my current bike going over that figure and then some.

[tatters]

Depends on the bike and the how the owner appears and acts, some chav with a bike in his front garden is,nt a good sign compaired to a mature owner with a desent garage and knowlege of bike mechcanics.
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