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Who has the most miles on their bike? I saw Charlie (bad406) this weekend and he has an 03 Speedmaster (still with a stock seat. Ouch!)that has 70k+ miles on it. The odometer shows almost 66K but he said his cable was broken for a while and figures it is realy between 70 and 75K.
I know we have some high milage bikes out there. What do you have?
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I have almost 38,000 on a 02. and it will be down for awhile. Thanks to a 93 Ford Escort wagon.
I was so much older then, I am younger than that now (Wrote By Dylan Sung by the BYRDS,)
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Almost 45,000 on my 03 Speedmaster. People tell me that's alot, but I ain't got nuthin'on Charlie. 
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SalMaglie, have you had any internal (rings, pistons, mains and rod bearings etc)work done during your 45,000 miles ?
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Nope. Worst thing to happen was a bad igniter box about 6 months ago. Outside of that it's just been tires, oil, chain and sprockets...lather, rinse, repeat. I couldn't be happier with the bike. Just did 700 miles last weekend going up to Prescott/Cottonwood, and the bike was flawless. One of these days I'll do the big bore kit, if those stock pistons ever wear out. At first I was thinking I'd do it at 50,000 miles, but now I'm thinking of waiting until 75,000.
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I just rollod over 9K and the bike is exactly 7 months 20 days old. Considering the weather will slow down the riding a bit from Nov thru early February I should be on to make around say 11K by the first annniversary.
There are times when you need to not start riding around here until after 10:00 AM in the morning to avoid the miniscule morning chill.
I will probably ride to work only occasionally as soon as the morning temps start to drop into the 30-40 degree range. Its really tuff living in the banana belt!
Next year the mileage will skyrocket.
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16,200 on my 05
Frank
I guess that beats the 6000+ on my 05!
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I always multiply my mileage by 2
Dear Friar,
Kinda like my golf score. I count my strokes and divide by the number of balls I lose! I should join the PGA, but I'd smoke all those guys.
OHH! 46,000 miles on an '02. It's been a slow, hot, humid summer. But riding season is here again.
Derek and Stephen,
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now I'm thinking of waiting until 75,000
I am gonna see just how far I can go before I need a rebuild (i'm thinking 120,000 plus). Since I'll have to tear into the lower end anyway, I may opt for the 988cc kit. At 46,000 miles, my bike feels like it's just broke in.
Ride Safe,
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Not much compare to others but 29000 when was going back from work.......average 1350 miles per month 
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I feel ashamed to tell you my mileage nearly 9000 on a 04 plate 
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There are times when you need to not start riding around here until after 10:00 AM in the morning to avoid the miniscule morning chill.
I will probably ride to work only occasionally as soon as the morning temps start to drop into the 30-40 degree range. Its really tuff living in the banana belt!
Kevin -
Since I used to live down there I can say this - you're being a wimp!   If the day starts at 30-40 and goes up from there, there's no snow and no cinders on the road, I'd be riding! And will in such weather this winter. But I don't get to ride to work too much as the judges don't approve of me showing up in leathers and boots, or jeans. 
So I only have just over 22K on my '02. Just now replacing chain and sprockets, have done the Freak this past spring, new tires at the begining of the year, replaced the handlebars in the first 6 months. Just put new saddle bags on. Oh, had the ignitor board replaced under warranty the first year. Other than that, she's stock - with really pretty colored pipes!
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I love these threads - lotsa miles, lotsa smiles. Granted it ain't earthshakin, but I'm gonna get 11,000 on my '04 (finally!).
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I just got back last night from a 280 mile rounder with a friend. 47 degrees F the whole way, no mistake about it, it was cold when not dressed for after two hours. But during the course of it, I rolled over 19,000 miles on Blue, have had it for 26 months, as this mornings snow cover attests, it won't be long until she goes to sleep for the winter (except when I wake her up to sneak a ride down the dirt road!)
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11,143 on my '05 I picked up in Feb of 06, just had the 12,000 mile service done yesterday in Chattanooga for $198. 1 igniter, flawless otherwise.
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as this mornings snow cover attests, it won't be long until she goes to sleep for the winter (except when I wake her up to sneak a ride down the dirt road!)
Ed,
But July and August is .
Isn't the Aerostich Company in Duluth? They have some excellent looking products on the website. Maybe you could get one of those coverall suits and stuff it full of goosefeathers?
http://www.aerostich.com/home.php
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There are times when you need to not start riding around here until after 10:00 AM in the morning to avoid the miniscule morning chill.
I will probably ride to work only occasionally as soon as the morning temps start to drop into the 30-40 degree range. Its really tuff living in the banana belt!
Kevin -
Since I used to live down there I can say this - you're being a wimp! If the day starts at 30-40 and goes up from there, there's no snow and no cinders on the road, I'd be riding! And will in such weather this winter. But I don't get to ride to work too much as the judges don't approve of me showing up in leathers and boots, or jeans.
So I only have just over 22K on my '02. Just now replacing chain and sprockets, have done the Freak this past spring, new tires at the begining of the year, replaced the handlebars in the first 6 months. Just put new saddle bags on. Oh, had the ignitor board replaced under warranty the first year. Other than that, she's stock - with really pretty colored pipes!
Becky
Yupper. These overbearing cold temps down here are a test of a strong man or womans will! 
But then again the mornings can be cold from late November thru mid February.
But I like those banana belt mornings when for whatever reason the temps are in the balmy 45 to 50 degree range.
Its a fine justification for living down here eh?
I am fine as long as my face and hands stay warm. I picked up a nice baklava (sp?) yesterday that goes up over the nose and is nice and thick ....should do a good job of keeping the cold wind blast from freezing the face on my 18 mile morning commute if and when I decide to ride instead of taking my truck. The biggest thing is just the extra time it takes to "get ready" in the morning. Putting on the extra layers of clothes et al...warming up the bike as opposed to jumping in the truck and going.
Now for you its pretty much out of the question to ride in winter with the snow and all. Just does not make sense to ride far in extreme cold when you have four wheels to fall back onto.
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i have just topped 26k miles on my '02. but in my defense, i had two major surgeries in that time, both during prime riding weather!!
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Thanks to the front wheel I got from you I was able to ride up to the Nor'East with all my rear wheel spokes in place! Now I need to order a spoke nipple for that front wheel!
170 shy of 52.
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Don't know........took my speedometer off at around 12,000....probably best that I DON'T know, that way I won't see how little I actually ride haha
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we should do this every weekend!
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I feel ashamed to tell you my mileage nearly 9000 on a 04 plate
don't be ashamed Ray. I have 10500 on my 03.
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not too much,
got 11,000 on my green dragon.
an 04 america.
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Personally, I think anyone who puts 5000 miles on their bike in one year is definitely riding their bike. I know a lot of people of don't put half that on their bikes unless you count the miles on the trailer.
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Miles are miles. Yet if you think back on all the places you have seen putting those miles on well there you have it. When roads 1000 miles from home get to be as familiar as local roads, when gas stations and restaurants are visited once a year or twice, places way beyond a days ride, heck when the people who work at certain places say Hi to you, that is what mileage is all about. Not in the vain of centural fanaticism, but rather in the context of asphalt surfing and making unknown roads familiar. Seeing the country, stopping to take in the ambiance, and riding 300 miles a day as opposed to 600 miles a day is the ultimate in two-wheelin holiday fun. Dining on Asphalt. What a great idea for a TV show. Well it is just that. We ride get hungry and say I want to eat where no man has ate before. At least any of my friends! One such diner on North US1 right at the Northern border of Florida is Steamboat Lilies. Go in there and you'll see Florida Crackers sitting and talking the breeze. Old men who have stories to tell. Food served up that requires a cart to get your stuffed arse out the door again. You literally step back in time 50 years.
Riding a route less traveled, then having that feeling of deja vu yet, after a bit more riding realizing that you have been this way before. The world collapses into a familiar place a comfortable place as you recall places and people. Riding my friends, is what the odometer documents. Miles are the cost of our freedom and afford us the mental reflections required to get our mind right.
So get on your bikes and ride. To where? how far? who cares just go as far and for as long as you can. Road trips will happen, but round town/county rides are our bread and butter. 3K a year is as enjoyable to those who can't roll away as 10K is a year to those that can scedattle outa state outa town outa old worlds.
Rambling on. That’s me on Vera rolling north to the smoky mountains. YeeHa!
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Amen brother. Miles without stories are as meaningless as counting posts without friends made thru this forum.
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Great Moe. I'm turning the 'puter off and going out. See ya later 
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Moe.... I wish I could..... Well I wish I could on an America.... I did go out last night (around 10pm) and did 40 miles on the bike I don't like... and I'm paying for it today....
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With only 22,800 miles I'm just getting started. What with winter coming on it looks like it might be hard to catch up
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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Stories? But I thought the road creedo was "what happens in ______, stays in ______"? I've got stories, but this is a PG-13 forum.
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Stories? But I thought the road creedo was "what happens in ______, stays in ______"?
Okay Derek! Have YOU been talkin' to BigBill AGAIN???!!!
Ya KNOW, I hear whenever he rides out o' "Sin City" he's about as talkative as a friggin' monk!!!
I wonder what he's doin' right now that we'll never hear about???
And, have you ever heard BECKY tell us anything about the exploits those Flagstaff women riders have on those yearly junkets goin' to that place?
NO! I didn't THINK so! 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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I've been trying to pry some stories out of her about the Rocky Point Rally, since I'm going for the first time next month, but she keeps going lawyer on me and pleading the 5th.
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I'm not sure about the most, but if it's the highest, count me in. (and no 1,2,3,4's either) Anyways, 6,000 on my '06 in 3 months. (lazy)
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You took a big trip, didn't you, Reid? Dieing in the rain, and all?
I ride every day, too, but for the last 10 days - waiting on new chain/sprocket set which I picked up tonight. Had to park her 3 months last Summer for a knee injury, but since then I started riding to work every day.
24.5k on since June, 2004 - over 12k on since New Year's this year. And I haven't been out of town since May.
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i just turned 26000...without even checking my valves
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I've been trying to pry some stories out of her about the Rocky Point Rally, since I'm going for the first time next month, but she keeps going lawyer on me and pleading the 5th.
Its something you just have to experience!!! And that is why I do my partying out of county, out of state and out of country - so I can...... and then plead the 5th when I get home!
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Stories? But I thought the road creedo was "what happens in ______, stays in ______"?
And, have you ever heard BECKY tell us anything about the exploits those Flagstaff women riders have on those yearly junkets goin' to that place?
NO! I didn't THINK so!
Of course not....some road stories aren't about the road!!! And best kept amongst the people who were there.
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So what you're saying is I should leave my camera in the room when we meet up in Rocky Point next month?
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Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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