My bike will be fifteen months old May 19th. 18,031 miles on the odo. It has not stranded me a single time. I expect to do a sprocket chain R & R at or around 20K miles. I lube once a week like clockwork usually on a Saturday morning. Chain seems to have held up well so far.
The only think I worry about at all as far as getting left on the side of the road is potentially the CDI going out at some point. Hard to determine the statistical failure rate of those things. In reality it may not be very high and its just that we read about those failures here amongst our membership. I wonder how many Americas and Speedies are out there in these United States..that get ridden at least 12K or so a year since 2002 alone?
I have gotten to the point I dont have a problem with the weekly labor of love to do simple maint like chain lube/ wash/wax/shine up the pipes etc. It actually seems thereaputic. And I have not read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maint!
