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serenity3743 Serious Thumper Offline Striving to better, oft we mar what's well Posts: 778 Black Mountain, NC Gender:	How many miles you got? 07/31/07 at 13:29:38 Hey. I'm fairly new. I would like to hear from riders about how many miles they have put on their thumpers. I have ridden mine over 51,000 with routine maintenance, although now it's down for a rebuild. How do others compare with that?..........Guy
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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 28644 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: How many miles you got? Reply #1 - 07/31/07 at 13:39:56 Nice goin'! I did see one guy on here with 90,000miles. I'm only at 12,000, but I plan on going forever!
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stinger Serious Thumper Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 848	Re: How many miles you got? Reply #2 - 08/02/07 at 01:10:16 29,000 on mine with just regular maintanence. How many miles before you changed your cam chain?
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splash07 Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 911 Charleston, SC Gender:	Re: How many miles you got? Reply #3 - 08/02/07 at 08:37:18 8,000 on my 2000. just rebuilt bike at 7,000. plan on keeping it for life. this bike is very capable of 1,000,000 miles as long as you stay rubber side down.
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serenity3743 Serious Thumper Offline Striving to better, oft we mar what's well Posts: 778 Black Mountain, NC Gender:	Re: How many miles you got? Reply #4 - 08/02/07 at 13:31:50 Mine is a 2000 year model LS650P, fully stock. Had it ever since it was a year old with 600 miles on it. I'm changing the cam chain for the first time, as I'm doing a top end overhaul. Thanks for the replies.........Guy
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Re: How many miles you got?
Reply #5 - 08/02/07 at 19:02:51

serenity3743 wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:08:

Mine is a 2000 year model LS650P, fully stock. Had it ever since it was a year old with 600 miles on it. I'm changing the cam chain for the first time, as I'm doing a top end overhaul. Thanks for the replies.........Guy

2001 with just over 25k. Sure hope I m halfway to a rebuild...

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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28884 L.A. California Gender:	Re: How many miles you got? Reply #6 - 08/02/07 at 19:57:54 Cam Chain Adjuster mod'd at 22k.
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BigWes Ex Member	Re: How many miles you got? Reply #7 - 08/05/07 at 21:33:50 bought mine with 5200 miles, and in the last two weeks i have put 1000 miles on her for a grand total of 6200 miles. still got a ways to go before i rebuild her though
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piasano YaBB Newbies Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 2 usa Gender:	Re: How many miles you got? Reply #8 - 08/05/07 at 22:52:04 bought a 2002 ls650 earlier this year with 2200 miles on it, yesterday i just got to 5300 miles.
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rigidchop Serious Thumper Offline don't feed the drama llama Posts: 1105 ravenswood wv Gender:	Re: How many miles you got? Reply #9 - 08/07/07 at 06:42:13 mine is an 87 with just over 14000 miles, pulled the engine out yesterday, caught the cam chain issue just in time.
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Re: How many miles you got?
Reply #10 - 08/07/07 at 08:27:20

Bought a 2001 with 10,460 mile with dead engine. (Piston probelm). Cam chain was in good shape but replaced it as a precaution.
Piston problem looks to have been cylinder origianlly at tight side of tolerance fm Factory and possibly a maintanence (oil chg) issue.

See "the inside the engine - photo" thread, http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?board=RubberSideDown;action=display;n...

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Re: How many miles you got?
Reply #11 - 08/07/07 at 09:22:02

Just rolled over 22k with Glenn a week ago or so. 1986 Savage that I got with 18k on it in March this year.

PO is a Honda Tech who got the bike for free from his grandpa or uncle or something. They had let the cam chain go. PO replaced "everthing that was even near the d@mn cam chain."

He's a dealership tech, of course he just replaced everything Grin

I think he changed the cam chain at around 16-17k. Had the bike parked in his living room, cleaned the parts in the sink. Motor on the coffee table while the chain was going into it. Lost a girlfriend over the deal. He says it was worth it.

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vroom1776 Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 2110 Gender:	Re: How many miles you got? Reply #12 - 08/07/07 at 15:56:41 26-7k ?
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steely Senior Member Offline Posts: 325 Tulsa, Oklahoma Gender:	Re: How many miles you got? Reply #13 - 08/07/07 at 18:10:45 I bought my '99 Savage with 17.5K on the clock a few months ago. Three weeks after I bought it, the cam chain took a dump on me. It took me three weeks to get it back together, and since then I have put 2k miles on it.
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Soon Junior Member Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 61 Portland ME Gender:	Re: How many miles you got? Reply #14 - 08/11/07 at 20:14:20 Hi all, i am new to the site, Just got a 2007 blue ls650cc on june 2nd and i have 3200miles on it. as of to day Aug11/07. I love it . It only had 1or 2 miles on it when I got it. I followed the break in just like the manual said.
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