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On this mornings ride I turned over 50K miles on my ST
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that means in the last 6 years, since I started keeping track, I have logged 88,207 miles.
Imagine what the total would be if I had started keeping track on May 18, 1966 when I started (legally) street riding. Or in Oct 1977 when my wife and I started touring in earnest on a Kawasaki KZ 1000B with Vetter Fairing and bags (but our first trip together was to the Great Smoky Mt's N.P. in 1973 on an RD 350 Yamaha.) What a ride it has been!
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Best wishes for many more miles and years of safe riding Mickey. Congrats.
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(10-11-2014, 03:43 AM)redbirds_imp Wrote: Best wishes for many more miles and years of safe riding Mickey. Congrats.
What he said. Well done, Mickey. Stay safe.
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50K! Dang ferret I got some catching up to do... my 2009 ST1300 is hovering around 20K still. TINK
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That's impressive! Congrats
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Congrats on the milestone, Mickey. While you may not have the total written down, you really have been "keeping track" of your motorcycle mileage all along and I thank you for sharing some of those miles with us in your posts here. Keep the odo spinning.
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(10-11-2014, 01:53 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote: On this mornings ride I turned over 50K miles on my ST
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that means in the last 6 years, since I started keeping track, I have logged 88,207 miles.
Imagine what the total would be if I had started keeping track on May 18, 1966 when I started (legally) street riding. Or in Oct 1977 when my wife and I started touring in earnest on a Kawasaki KZ 1000B with Vetter Fairing and bags (but our first trip together was to the Great Smoky Mt's N.P. in 1973 on an RD 350 Yamaha.) What a ride it has been!
Oh, the things we do in our youth. Would you head off on a trip like that today, on an RD350?
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Excuse me for getting off subject a little but I'm curious about valve clearance inspection on your ST. How often have you checked clearances and have you had to change any shims?
I bring this up because it seems that the shim under bucket system rarely needs adjustment. I know that some fellows on the Triumph Tiger 1050 forum had gone far beyond 50K without needing to change shims.
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I miss the dashboard, and the mileage per tank. I had 34K when i sold my 2008 a few months ago.
