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How far do you drive your Savage?
10/24/11 at 14:09:58

I'm just wondering what kind of commute people have. I go 47 miles one way and I think it might be hard on the Savage (and me) going 40+ miles at freeway speeds. It only has 4900 miles on it but it has been neglected before I got it. Now I pretty much ride it around town on short hops, sometimes 20 miles 55-60 mph and it does OK. It is a great bike. I just don't want to destroy it going 70 MPH for an hour at a time. Any comments?

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Re: How far do you drive your Savage?
Reply #1 - 10/24/11 at 14:31:30

I ride 12 miles one way takes about 15 minutes. I don't really go much faster than 55 - 60 mph all though the coutry road I drive is 70mph. This feels like the perfect ride for my savage. At 55-60 it just feels like it is in the zone. I don't ride too far and never get farther than a short ride from a gas station so the tiny gas tank doesn't bother me too much. You must have to get gas everyday.

I don't think what you are describing is in anyway harmful to your bike.

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Reply #2 - 10/24/11 at 14:44:17

Yeah MrBrownTX I would agree at 55-60 the Savage is happy with everything. I rode the bike from Shawnee OK to Chandler OK, about 27 miles and it was a good ride at 60. When I first got it in July I had it on the freeway once for about a mile. It was running kinda rough as it had sat awhile and I had to run the bugs out of it. She is a lot smoother and backfires a lot less than at first. Still, it has that California carb thing going on and lets out a pretty good bang once in awhile. WOW! A dog followed me up to my driveway the other day. After I turned it off the bike went BANG!! and the dog went running home. It doesn't follow me anymore.

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Demin Serious Thumper Offline We need more chlorine in the gene pool Posts: 2435 Warren,Ohio Gender:	Re: How far do you drive your Savage? Reply #3 - 10/24/11 at 15:01:25 180 miles one way,at 70ish the whole way.30 some thousand miles on mine.I do half to 1 hour runs 65-75 all the time.I lived in Tx.100 degrees.Still ran fine. Keep your oil checked...............No oil wars.
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scottnj Junior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 58 the 'Nati, OH Gender:	Re: How far do you drive your Savage? Reply #4 - 10/24/11 at 15:25:19 10 miles each way for daily commute, 35 mph (ish). Occasionally take longer trips -- most recently rode 1000 miles in three days, with a bunch at 60-70 mph with no ill effects. No prob keeping up with traffic on the highway for me. Totally stock setup (muffler, intake, etc).
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Re: How far do you drive your Savage?
Reply #5 - 10/24/11 at 15:27:30

I used to do 100+ miles in a day all the time, mostly highway speeds. (55-65) My longest 1 day ride was about 200 miles total, all around SE Wisconsin. Stopping for gas and a short lunch break, of course. That's about the limit my a$$ can take on this seat.

Since running over the big rock, I don't go so far any more, for fear of bike breaking down. My lovely JB Weld repair has been leaking some oil again lately. And the bike makes funny noises and vibrations that it never did before hitting the big rock. So I stay a lot closer to home now. It really sucks, since I just spent about $1400 fixing it up last winter, intending to road trip this summer.

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Reply #6 - 10/24/11 at 15:38:16

The best layed plans of mice and men..... AMEN to THAT!

I have been driving a 99 Escort 5 speed getting about 36-38 but still had to fill up every couple of days. Working locally (10 miles) the past few months, I have been driving a 125 Kawasaki that gets 75-77 MPG but it wont go over 60, and if I tried that for any length of time at all it would be toast. The best I ever got out of the Savage was 48, but I have only put about 500 miles on it since I got it, and it was running pretty bad when I first got it.

Seems a lot of guys riding a lot of miles and doing OK. I might just have to ride it to work once and see how it does, and to see how I do

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Routy Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2280 Winston Oregon Gender:	Re: How far do you drive your Savage? Reply #7 - 10/24/11 at 15:47:54 If I had to cruise 70mph for anything near an hour every day, it wouldn't be on my s-40,........thats pushin it too hard IMO. And thats because I once had a 750bike that would cruise 70 quite easily. However, if I was satisfied w/ cruising at 55-60 mph, I could easily ride for an hour one way.
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bluesrockdoc YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 42	Re: How far do you drive your Savage? Reply #8 - 10/24/11 at 18:54:45 12 miles one way, 45-55 speed limits, maybe I don't pay attention to that often enough....
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Built2Last Serious Thumper Offline Tempt Fate Posts: 1447 FTF Gender:	Re: How far do you drive your Savage? Reply #9 - 10/24/11 at 18:57:22 K&N Air filter, 155 main, 55 pilot, RAASK exhaust... I'm cruising at 60mph in 4th gear.. gonna start checking into cam stages... still getting around 110 miles per tank on highway drives going 60-70 mph where speed limits permit.. no windshield
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stinger Serious Thumper Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 848	Re: How far do you drive your Savage? Reply #10 - 10/25/11 at 00:15:47 Wow! Quit worrying about it! This bike will run 65 to 75 mph all day long, 7 days a week with no problems. I sound like a broken record but 48,000 miles on my 02. Most of it freeway speeds and I often take a couple 250 mile day rides in the summer a week. Bike runs as good now as new.
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stinger Serious Thumper Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 848	Re: How far do you drive your Savage? Reply #11 - 10/25/11 at 00:16:02 Wow! Quit worrying about it! This bike will run 65 to 75 mph all day long, 7 days a week with no problems. I sound like a broken record but 48,000 miles on my 02. Most of it freeway speeds and I often take a couple 250 mile day rides in the summer a week. Bike runs as good now as new.
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dinsdale Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 186 Ottawa, Canada Gender:	Re: How far do you drive your Savage? Reply #12 - 10/25/11 at 09:41:40 I commute about 35 miles each way, speeds of about 55-60 MPH for most of it down to stop and go at the end. Toes get a little toasty when it's 35 +Celsius (over 100 F) but bike runs fine.
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Re: How far do you drive your Savage?
Reply #13 - 10/25/11 at 10:27:45

2000 savage. 11,000+ miles. i commute daily 6 miles round trip through downtown louisville (= stop and go, stop and go, stop and go).

last summer i'd take 100+ mile trips around the country roads once weekly, and took three separate 300+ mile round trips to eastern kentucky to go camping.... with a backpack on, saddle bags stuffed to the max, and my tent strapped to the back with bungee chords. Went about 80 the whole time, in 100 degree weather, stopping only for gas.

In other words.... ride on!!

(in a related comment... if anyone is in the mid-south... a trip around the red river gorge makes for an amazing day of riding. my buddy rode all the way from Massachusetts and met me there one day just because I talked it up so much... it's amazing)

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Reply #14 - 10/25/11 at 11:10:57

I ride mine to work every day.38 miles one way and 27 of it on the interstate,70-75 mph.(Sometimes 80) I've put about 13,000 on it in the last 12 months and nothing has let go yet.Really have to keep an eye on my oil level in the summertime when running that speed for that distance,but no problems at all. Mine is a 96 that was a one owner when I got it,had 5300 miles on it.After 14 months of me that's at about 20,000. I weigh 280,so the bike is getting a workout!

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