c_dug, killer of bikes.

[c_dug]

Well today I killed another bike. My K1300GT went pop on the M1, a nice hole in the engine and a puddle of oil. Cue the discovery that my recovery had not auto-renewed as I thought, a nice long wait on the hard shoulder in a thunderstorm, and a £280 recovery bill

It occurs to me that of all the bikes that have ever gone through my ownership, only two have been sold in the condition I bought them in, or three if you count one I had to rebuild significantly.

I average around 12,000 miles a year so my bikes do see some use, but I'm pretty meticulous with oil changes since the days of my NTV.

1. TS50X - non-fault crash write off
2. TDR250 - Sold sort of working but having been significantly rebuilt after it caught fire in my garage whilst I was working on it
3. GPZ500S - Crashed dicking around on a roundabout, patched back together and pretty much given away to a friend
4. NTV600 - dubbed the Cockroach by my dad for the abuse I gave it, ran the poor thing out of oil twice on the M25 and it still continued to march on. Eventually it had enough. Sold for scrap.

Worth bearing in mind the above four bikes cost less than £1000 in total, spanning between 2006-2010.

5. ZZR600 - non-fault crash write off
6. CBR600F - stolen recovered 3 times! Second gear went and eventually the whole bike died. Broke for spares.
7. Diversion 900 - Crashed twice, the first time was a bad one but the bike survived well. The second was slow speed but the gear selector took a knock and a few months later the gearbox died.
8. CB500s - bought crashed from a forum member with the intention of fixing it, sold spares and repairs alongside the Divvy 900.
9. VFR800 Vtec - It Survived!
10. Fazer 600 - Stolen and burned less than 200m from my door. Bastards.
11. R1200GS - The spark plug fired out like a gun, then I fucked it when fixing it and ended up having to put a new engine in. Sold running and working perfectly, but I did kill it temporarily.
12. Aprilia Tuono 125 (2 stroke) - It Survived!
13. Aprilia Shiver 750 - still in regular use, but it did temporarily throw a wobbly last year
14. K1300GT - bought from my dad less than a month ago, died today.

So, out of 14 bikes, 3 were sold fully working, I still own one, the rest have basically died in my ownership.

Anybody else got even remotely as bad a record???
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[Pete.]

[Nobby the Bastard]

So your own dad sod you a pup? What a wanker!
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[Polarbear]

I know of two people personally who have owned boxer twins from BMW, Both went bang without warning. One of them was owned by a BMW machanic. (I really tried not to snigger, honestly ).

And c_dug, perhaps you should get a new hobby.
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[Pete.]

[c_dug]

[Bhud]

Oh well, they're there to be used and they all go bang eventually. Perhaps you ride them really hard? Anyway, with any dirty, complex, cumbersome machine like an internal combustion engine, when it goes bang you make a cold calculation. Do you really want to fix it or even to get someone else to fix it, or would it be more economic to part it out or scrap it and get another.

[c_dug]

Hard-ish I guess, but I've commuted on every bike I've ever owned so I do treat them with a dollop of respect since I rely on them daily for work.
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[jeffyjeff]

[UncleFester]

[yen_powell]

[WD Forte]

When heard of a Beemer throwing a rod at a mere 50K
I was surprised because in my ignorance of modern bikes
I assumed the K1300 had a K (brick) type engine or a boxer lump
IL4 eh?
Unless it was woefully neglected and someone relentlessly
caned the arse off it, you'd expect 50k to be passed easily
for an engine that size.

Witchcraft? curses? sabotage? aliens? bloody foreigners?
shite design?
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[Fat Angry Scotsman]

[Polarbear]

[c_dug]

[yen_powell]

[MCN]

For it to throw a leg oot the bed there must probably have been warning signs ignored.

Normally a wallied oot Big end bearing lets go due to fatigue if not stopped when the clatter is noticed.

Or big end nut run off.

Big end bolt sheared.
Con-rod journal fatigued.

My K1300GT has about 26k on now. I'll whip the conrods out this weekend and get them magnafluxed for LOLs.
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[Copycat73]

[c_dug]

[Fat Angry Scotsman]

[PotatoHead202...]

That's not the first time I've heard of the GT doing that. Infact I've heard of about 6 of them doing the same thing - don't get me started on the amount of S' I've seen with similar issues.

Absolute sodding garbage the entire lot of them.
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[Bhud]

Perhaps some of you more experienced heads could clue me in about something.

What's it like, running a bike into the ground? Is there an immediate lockup when, for example, a conrod gives up? Do you have time to pull in the clutch and bring it to a safe halt? The one time I suspect a mechanical fault on a bike caused the rear wheel to lock (it wasn't mine - it was hired for the day) it wasn't fun. I've got an old bike that's meticulously maintained but which is high mileage. I've decided to run into the ground and not restore when it eventually goes bang. Would be nice to know what to expect (preferably not on a smart motorway lol).

[Polarbear]

[jeffyjeff]

[c_dug]