02-19-2014, 01:53 PM
Chris heres an interesting list of high mileage VTRs I found while cruising the net. Some have quite high mileage....several over 100,000 miles, many more over 50,000. Common probs seem to be water pump weep holes leaking and cam chain tensioners it seems. No one is complaining about out of round cylinders that I read. All seem really pleased with the quality of their bikes. I don't know, is it possible you got the odd bad one?
http://micapeak.com/reg/view2/VTR
You know the average rider rides probably under 5000 miles a year, it would take 20 years to rack up 100,000 on 1 bike...and few keep them that long. Even pretty hard core riders do around 10,000 miles a year and it would take 10 years to rack up 100,000. Not many keep the same bike for 10 years either. If you are setting 100,000 miles as a benchmark for measuring quality, few are going to climb that mountain.
I consider myself pretty hard core. I live in the midwest yet still manage to ride generally some in every month of the year, take a couple multi day multi state trips a year (last year I did 3 of them) and I average around 12,000 miles a year. I would have to ride every mile I ride, on the same bike for over 8 years to see that kind of mileage. At this point, at soon to be 64, I doubt I'll be riding that long and even then my mileage will get split between several bikes. By my calculations when I reach my goal of riding until I'm 70, I should rack up another 70 something thousand miles. I may never find out if my bikes are quality made..or not.
http://micapeak.com/reg/view2/VTR
You know the average rider rides probably under 5000 miles a year, it would take 20 years to rack up 100,000 on 1 bike...and few keep them that long. Even pretty hard core riders do around 10,000 miles a year and it would take 10 years to rack up 100,000. Not many keep the same bike for 10 years either. If you are setting 100,000 miles as a benchmark for measuring quality, few are going to climb that mountain.
I consider myself pretty hard core. I live in the midwest yet still manage to ride generally some in every month of the year, take a couple multi day multi state trips a year (last year I did 3 of them) and I average around 12,000 miles a year. I would have to ride every mile I ride, on the same bike for over 8 years to see that kind of mileage. At this point, at soon to be 64, I doubt I'll be riding that long and even then my mileage will get split between several bikes. By my calculations when I reach my goal of riding until I'm 70, I should rack up another 70 something thousand miles. I may never find out if my bikes are quality made..or not.