Yes, I’m with you all the way with this one, I get the same concern from others when I mention how much milage I cover within a year, or the bikes life.
I once had a great ZZR 250 and it some twenty thousand miles within two years and with all my bikes I’ve had there have been many, many mileages put on them. Selling them has been a problem, the main concern too, as all I seem to get is “…erm, its done a lot of miles there mate…” :blink:
hmy: Like you, I tell ‘em that its been well maintained, well looked after and very well used!!
That’s the reason I got the thing, not to use it on sunny Sundays, bike meets’ or posing with; a bikes for life, not just for buying. :woohoo: :woohoo:
The best example is that I got a BMW R1150r and got it from new (zero mileage etc) and part exchanged it about two years later, with around 20,000 miles on the clock and all they (the same BMW shop) was that it had done too much mileage. This made me very angey as I put it to them that as its only 15,000- 20,000 on the clock it’s only JUST[/I] broken in, which you (BMW) would know this
The second example was I was doing the National Road Rally on it and an “old boy” with a newish, modern GS1150 came over and had a look and noticed the “high” milage and he just couldn’t believe it, he’d had his bike some year or so longer than mine and done only around 5,000 miles on it :whistle:
