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How many miles on your bike?

Discussion in 'XJ Technical Chat' started by iwasatoad, Mar 26, 2006.

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How many MILES on your XJ?

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  1. iwasatoad

    iwasatoad Member

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    Read a few posts and got to thinking we all know that thease bikes last a long time or well all of ours have well theay have lasted a long time but how menny miles are on thease bikes.

    so heres a poll to see how menny miles is on your XJ. i cant go on for ever on how meny miles or donw to detail so ill stop it at 30k for any of you that would like to just type it in be my guest i would like to see how menny high bikes we have still running.


    1982 maxim 750 26,532
     
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  2. woot

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    Re: How menny miles

    I'm off that chart and I'd suspect there are many other's past that... I do about 10,000km a year and I've had this bike 5 years - 6th year this year. By November I suspect I'll have ~60,000km of my own on this bike... plus the P.O.'s meager start... probably passing 80,000km sometime this year.

    I've already seen:

    44,444
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    60,000
    66,666

    and closing in on 70,000 very quickly.
     
    woot, Mar 26, 2006
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  3. iwasatoad

    iwasatoad Member

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    i guess i never relly though about that i put that menny miles on my last bike last year i guess if some one were to do that like i did for 6 years then ya you would have alot of miles thanks woot for making me think more clearly
     
    iwasatoad, Mar 26, 2006
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  4. Robert

    Robert Active Member

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    Re: How menny miles

    I'd vote but I've over 85K miles on my beast. Guess I don't get to play. Should I tap in at 25-30K?
     
    Robert, Mar 26, 2006
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  5. woot

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    Hey we can use those numbers - just change that to miles per year! :)
     
    woot, Mar 26, 2006
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  6. RyanfromOhio

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    Re: How menny miles

    How many miles on my bike???

    I think its got about 25K on it, but I would have to check.

    I think last year I put about 1500 mile son it. Did 100 miles in one day, and yes my arse was sore!
     
    RyanfromOhio, Mar 26, 2006
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    Re: How menny miles

    mine has 64k on it, hope full when I park it in fall it will have 70+ on it
     
    schmidtap, Mar 26, 2006
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  8. woot

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    100 miles and your arse was sore? That's only a tank of gas! :)

    Get back on your saddle - you need to practice for a SS (Saddle Sore)

    :D

    I've done the SS but haven't documented it. Contemplating doing 6000km in 6 days, which still near the pace those crazy Iron Butter's go... 11,000 miles in 11 days! :O
     
    woot, Mar 26, 2006
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  9. MacMcMacmac

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    Re: How menny miles

    81,700 KMs, or roughly 51,000 miles.

    Oh yeah, given the age of the bike, and the fact that it only has a 5 digit odometer, who's to say it hasn't been around the clock?
     
    MacMcMacmac, Mar 26, 2006
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  10. BlueMaxim

    BlueMaxim Active Member

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    Re: How menny miles

    Your poll doesn't give me the correct answer. I picked the 25-30k miles range but mine actually has over 65k miles on the frame and the new engine has about 27k miles. The original engine had 60k and was still running when I removed it. It was removed due to the primary chain guide failing and dropping bits int the selector drum.
     
    BlueMaxim, Mar 26, 2006
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    Re: How menny miles

    Mine has 34,000 on it. Do all of the other bikes with the high mileage have the original motor? I would be interested to know if they are still running strong after so many miles. How is the compression on those older engines too? Mine is 120psi now. I am hoping to get more out of it.
     
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    12,000 miles
     
    jdrich48, Mar 26, 2006
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    132,000km and still the original motor. Whats been done internal wise I don't know but still seems to have all the original gaskets in place. No sign of the crankcase being split. Will be pulling the head off this winter to fix a few things. Might even rebuild If I can source the parts like cam chain, primary chain, pistons and rings. compression is still over 100 but some noisy rattles are starting to annoy me.
     
    Hired_Goon, Mar 27, 2006
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    Yea, i can't vote either.... I have ~58,000 miles on my seca. Sill runs great!!!
     
    unkeldunkel, Mar 27, 2006
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    Re: How menny miles

    silly question??
    can't the pole be edited to add higher mileage
     
    Nick, Mar 27, 2006
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  16. iwasatoad

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    well i never thought of that so i clicked on edit and i cant edit the poll sry well at leaset we lower mile people know that it will keep kicking for a wile
     
    iwasatoad, Mar 28, 2006
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    my seca's got about 8k on it. shes got plenty of life left in 'er
     
    woolsac, Mar 29, 2006
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  18. SnoSheriff

    SnoSheriff Site Owner Staff Member Administrator

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    Re: How menny miles

    I fixed the poll range but I had to remove the previous results. Now we all can vote

    I read somewhere about an XJ with mileage over 400,000 so stretched the ranges a bit wider :wink:

    Keep in mind that approx 1.6 KM = 1 Mile
     
    SnoSheriff, Mar 29, 2006
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  19. Hired_Goon

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    Yay, I fit in somewhere.

    Did a quick recalculation of what's on the clock and from the info I got from the PO who travelled to work every day using the revcounter as the speedo didn't work for seven years.
     
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  20. iwasatoad

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    way togo sno i was hoping it could be done i never thought that menny would have more on them but then aginwhere i live you cant ride every day maby 6 of the 12 months of the year
     
    iwasatoad, Mar 30, 2006
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    Just wondering how many miles everyone has on their bikes, particularly XJ650's. I'm trying to get a feel for how long they will go before major trouble. My 81 XJ650 has 29600 on the odometer, it runs/rides great though. The guy I bought it from took good care of it.
     
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  22. SnoSheriff

    SnoSheriff Site Owner Staff Member Administrator

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    Search is your friend :wink:. Merging topics
     
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  23. Mitchhill

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    I searched "mileage", surprisingly this poll didn't come up. Oh well
     
    Mitchhill, Jun 21, 2006
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    Just hit 10,000 miles the other day.When I got it back in the winter the bike had 8749 on the odometer.Kinda curious to see how many miles I will get on her this season.
     
    kenny2coo, Jun 21, 2006
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  25. singingotter

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    I guess it has been edited because I fall in the 25-50,000 mile category. I have 27,000+ on the original engine.
     
    singingotter, Jun 21, 2006
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  26. welderflame

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    My 86 has 49,000 miles on the origional motor and still going strong, I ride 160 miles round trip 5 days a week for work.
     
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