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Message started by Chench53 on 03/12/05 at 16:48:57

Title: What is Most Mileage Ever?
Post by Chench53 on 03/12/05 at 16:48:57

I am curious, does anyone know what is the most mileage a Savage has ever completed.

I was thinking how cool it would be to get 100,000 miles out of my 2002 Savage. My bike is at ~20,600 now, and the question of what is the most miles any one Savage has ever completed in its lifetime came into my head.

Thanks. :)

Gerry

Title: Re: What is Most Mileage Ever?
Post by sluggo on 03/12/05 at 17:05:51

i can't say on my new savage, but if my old machine an 81 gn400 also a thumper is any indicator it will be at least 100,000 miles.. i got 98,000 out of the 400. that with minimal work. much of that time it was my daily driver.

it was also the reason i bought a savage. i love the simplicity and durablity of this fine machine.

that and the ease of chopping it.

Title: Re: What is Most Mileage Ever?
Post by bentwheel on 03/12/05 at 18:32:30

Good question Gerry. I'd also like to hear about high mileage Savages. Mine is still a baby at 30,000kms.

Title: Re: What is Most Mileage Ever?
Post by Chench53 on 03/12/05 at 19:31:31

Hey bentwheel, you've got almost as many miles as me. :D How long have you been riding your Savage?

sluggo, you got 98,000 on a 400cc thumper? :o Wow, I am truly impressed with that!! ;D ;D

Gerry

Title: Re: What is Most Mileage Ever?
Post by bentwheel on 03/12/05 at 19:55:55

Bought the Savage two years ago with 26,000 on the clock, but it wasn't my only ride. This season it has been bumped up to #1 status so I expect to add 8,000 kms.

Title: Re: What is Most Mileage Ever?
Post by slavy on 03/12/05 at 20:50:24

Honestly, the most I have seen on LS650 here in Az is approx. 30K. The bike was runninh fine, I did some mods and after that a friend of mine in Las Vegas wanted it, so I sold it to him. I rode it there with a steady speed above 70mph with no problems. Now the bike is a daily rider to work and back.
Overall i think it is not the bikes, it is the owners that fail.

Title: Re: What is Most Mileage Ever?
Post by sluggo on 03/12/05 at 22:23:36

slavy wrote:

Overall i think it is not the bikes, it is the owners that fail.

in my case, i'm sure that's what will happen. ;D

Title: Re: What is Most Mileage Ever?
Post by Max_Morley on 03/12/05 at 23:45:54

Over on Bert's forum in the early days of it we had a San Diego rider who commuted a couple hundred miles a day and had 90K+ Miles as I recollect when the timing chain adjuster wore out or broke. He went to a HD sportster and fixed the adjuster and last I read his wife was riding it. It would probably be on the archieved part of Bert's site as it was probably late 90's early 2000 time frame.

Title: Re: What is Most Mileage Ever?
Post by Chench53 on 03/13/05 at 03:40:46

Max_Morley wrote:

Who is Bert?

Gerry

Title: Re: What is Most Mileage Ever?
Post by gitarzan on 03/13/05 at 04:33:04

Dr. Bert Heise, proprietor of http://www.heise-workstations.de/ls650/Fragen/LS650-Fragen.html

Home page:
http://www.heise-workstations.de/ls650/LS650-e.html

Title: Re: What is Most Mileage Ever?
Post by Chench53 on 03/16/05 at 04:03:02

A guy posted on the Heise forum that someone in Cyprus had 90,000K (55,800 miles), see that message:
http://www.heise-workstations.de/ls650/Fragen/messages/46150.html

A very impressive distance
Thanks for pointing me over there.:)

Gerry