How come people start saying that anything over 15,000 miles, the bike is considered old, and to stay away, and to be careful? Why do people say this?
I have a 2K R6 red/white with about 20,500 miles and it's still an awesome, gorgeous bike to me :bowdown It's gonna need some basic tune up stuff, but it still runs pretty good. I'm sure once I take care of a few things, it's gonna run like a champ, if not even better.
Some people make it sound like the bike is worth only 2 grand, and that with the high mileage, there are a lot of things that could go wrong with it?
For some first generation owners, how many miles do you guys have? How's your bike holding up?
'00 r6. 33,000 miles. all i've had to replace due to wear and tear is the shift detent spring & rectifier. a little preventive maintenance goes a looooong way.
i love to hear about bikes that get put to the test. These bikes are meant to be ridden and its quite a shame when it seems like a vast majority of these machines don't survive past 10k miles. props to all of ya'll who keep on clickin off miles.
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