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RC51 Question...


Beegreenstrings

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For those that own a RC can you post up the current miles you have on them.

The one I wanted does not look so promising anymore, however had someone else step right up and offer me one the other day.

The downfall, to me, is it is ready to turn 40K

I have never owned a bike with that type of mileage before...

Will it hold that... Still run good. Sounds great. Doesnt sound like it has lost anything, still pretty tight?

How long will these bikes really last?

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What year is it, for one? Depending on how quickly those 40k were amassed and the maintenance done along the way makes a difference (as with any bike). I have a friend that has an '02 for a track bike that is somewhere between 60 and 70k. But it's well taken care of. Mine is an '03 that is just now at 20k, and shows no signs of being anything more than broken in and loved on. A high mileage bike is less about the bike and more about the owner.

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Twins tend to have a good lifespan. My last Aprilia had over 36,000 before the motor went- and it only went because I was wide open and all the oil leaked out into the bellypan with a sheared oil filter cover bolt...

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What year is it, for one? Depending on how quickly those 40k were amassed and the maintenance done along the way makes a difference (as with any bike). I have a friend that has an '02 for a track bike that is somewhere between 60 and 70k. But it's well taken care of. Mine is an '03 that is just now at 20k, and shows no signs of being anything more than broken in and loved on. A high mileage bike is less about the bike and more about the owner.

The guy is claiming less than 5000 per year...

It is a 2000 model but looks awesome! Sounds great runs great...

I have heard they will go and go but 40K seems like a ton of miles.

Twins tend to have a good lifespan. My last Aprilia had over 36,000 before the motor went- and it only went because I was wide open and all the oil leaked out into the bellypan with a sheared oil filter cover bolt...

WOW!

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I would stay away from any of the big twins, an I4 600 will eat them for lunch. Junky under perfoming turds, every one of them.

May your loins become infected with the fleas of 1000 camels for perpetuating such blasphemy. :villagers:

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It may be heavy. It may be slow. It may be sluggish on the turn-in' date=' but an inline will never sound like a twin.

Hey... isn't that the same argument I hear from Harley riders?[/quote']

It might just be me, but 40 ft/lbs of torque leaves me twiddling thumbs. Yeah, I want to wail it before the power "hits"... :D

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and correct me if I am wrong but trying to compare a F4I to a RC is like a potatoe to a apple? I would be rather impressed to see a striaght 4 hit 200K, that is forsure. I have seen a DRZ400SM hit 64K and was impressed, it ran like new, and is still going strong.

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