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OneSickPsycho 10-11-2010 09:24 AM

Considering the mileage on ALL of your Honda vehicles, I'm damn sure they'd put you in a commercial. You may also be able to pimp yourself out in some of the cycle mags.

Particle Man 10-11-2010 09:25 AM

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Originally Posted by 101lifts2 (Post 416751)
Your ODO shows it turned past 100k, not 200k. How do we know if it turned over twice? You could be lying. lol

what's even more hilarious is that Honda didn't put a digit there - they must not expect 'em to make it that far :lol:

Homeslice 10-11-2010 10:34 AM

Nice, congrats. Just goes to show you how dumb some people are for thinking bikes are disposable objects that will blow up past 10,000 miles. Clutches and rectifiers might wear out, but there is no reason why a bike engine can't last as long as a car engine. High rpm's don't make any difference if they were built to handle them.

thirdgenlxi 10-11-2010 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Triple (Post 416807)
How many clutch, wheel bearing, etc replacements in 200K miles?

Had one wheel bearing go out in the front.... axle seal failed and it leaked water into the bearing and rusted. Replaced both front bearings, I think it was around 160k or so. Clutch is 100% factory original....

I did have to change the steering head bearings somewhere around the same time as well.... they got notchy and had a detent in the straight ahead position

Particle Man 10-11-2010 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Homeslice (Post 416786)
Nice, congrats. Just goes to show you how dumb some people are for thinking bikes are disposable objects that will blow up past 10,000 miles. Clutches and rectifiers might wear out, but there is no reason why a bike engine can't last as long as a car engine. High rpm's don't make any difference if they were built to handle them.

I would even argue that a good number of motorcycle engines are more likely to last longer because they were engineered to withstand such high RPM

:rockwoot:

OneSickPsycho 10-11-2010 12:27 PM

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Originally Posted by thirdgenlxi (Post 416815)
Had one wheel bearing go out in the front.... axle seal failed and it leaked water into the bearing and rusted. Replaced both front bearings, I think it was around 160k or so. Clutch is 100% factory original....

I did have to change the steering head bearings somewhere around the same time as well.... they got notchy and had a detent in the straight ahead position

And his avatar is a reenactment of said wheel bearing failing. :lol:

Particle Man 10-11-2010 12:37 PM

:lol

Smittie61984 10-11-2010 02:04 PM

Badass! People are amazed that my bike has roughly 50k on it and that it is still going strong.

Get your ass in a commercial. Though didn't Toyota or Honda do a commercial with people having their car go over 1million miles?

derf 10-11-2010 09:33 PM

How many bikes ever even get a chance to hit 200k? 100k? 99% of the bikes out there either dont hardly get ridden, just sit, get wrecked, or just replaced with something new.

Also, jared, pretty damn bad ass

Particle Man 10-11-2010 09:41 PM

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Originally Posted by derf (Post 416954)
How many bikes ever even get a chance to hit 200k? 100k? 99% of the bikes out there either dont hardly get ridden, just sit, get wrecked, or just replaced with something new.

Also, jared, pretty damn bad ass

I know several folks with old 'Wings at the half-million mile mark. Does that count?


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