how many miles

[WILDECELT]

do you get out of your average bike before the engine is knackered? i ride a hornet(600) and i've got around 24000 miles on the clock. how long am i looking at before she blows and skulks into retirement.
what i'm trying to get at what is the average mileage most bikes ridden normally will give you before they croak it?
come on tech heads enlighten me

[natv4]

Honda's don't seem to do too bad.
I have a Honda VFR800 - 49000 miles, never let me down yet. Met a chap with the 750 with 180000km on the clock.

It does depend how your treat it, but I would probably expect at least 60k out of a Hornet, more with better care. Main thing is to change the oil regularly. Probably the best thing you can do for your engine.

I know of 2 strokes which have needed engine rebuilds at 10k. They seem to die very quickly.
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[tatters]

my ZZR600 had 48,000 miles on it and its still going strong
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[dotti]

I got just under 30,000 miles out of my KR150 before it became unviable to keep repairing. I guess that's not too bad for a 150cc 2-stroker, considering I knew next to nothing about bike maintainance at the time, and pretty much rode it until it broke before doing anything to it.
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[pete-dotphp]

currently on 53k on my winter bike, she burns about a litre of oil per 1000 miles (has done since I got it, last owner was a bodge-merchant and did the bike no favours) and has run 10k in the last 6months, but is running fine other than some recent bad carb icing.

If it had been taken care of it would be better still, and not burning oil like it does. Simple 4 strokes can run up a lot of miles easy, but that's nothing compared with tourers like BMWs, readings of 100k+ are quite common on bikes just a few years old. At the end of the day if you look after your bike, it'll just run and run and run and run...

Totally agree with the sentiment about oil changes, make sure you spend out on the oil, get a good semi or fully synthetic, the mineral stuff just doesn't last.

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[Sadie]

Current mileage on the Bandit is 65K, on the Virago 75K.

I fully intend to get at least 40K more out of each of them.
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[iCraig]

As said above there is a guy with 97k Hornet, and even some dispatch riders have got over 100k on Kawasaki GT550's.

My maximum on any of the bikes I've owned was 32,000 miles on a Suzuki GS500, it was still sweet as a nut and had nothing at all mechanically wrong with it, it was probably down to the 2,000 mile oil changes that it was running so well.

[Johnny GSX-R]

My old fella has got a CB500 with 60,ooo on the clock, it's a 2000 model and he's just come back from the Arctic cirlce on it...
As long as its serviced correctly there's no reason why it shouldn't run for well over 100,000 without touching it.
My old Kwak ZX10 had 48,000 when i sold it 4 yrs ago, its still going strong now. Modern engines and oil mean that reliability has increased staggeringly.

[scottiel]

Think most people have covered how far various bike have gone, but I would say it is down to how you look after the bike. Look after it and it will look after you.