How many miles is too many?

On a used bike how many miles is too many?? Everyone I talk to has their own opinion. But what is a good rule of thumb on milage?

kinda hard to set a number... need to know the year, condition, owner and price. I think it's just a judgment call on your part. I’ve never ran across a sport bike with 100K +…. But I have on goldwings and cruisers and they run great.

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ORIGINAL: doncollins

kinda hard to set a number... need to know the year, condition, owner and price. I think it's just a judgment call on your part. I’ve never ran across a sport bike with 100K +…. But I have on goldwings and cruisers and they run great.

Very well said. It all depends on a lot of factors.

Good average miles would be around 5-7k a year so its an easy some - bike is 2001 and has 32k miles is a little high, about 28k would be `average` but like peeps have said there many more factors to it that might help you decide to buy a bike, a well maintained service record is a must in my op.

Me personally, I wouldn't buy a used bike with over 25k miles on it. But thats my personal opinion. I've known people with sportbikes that had over 50k miles on them. It's all about how they are taken care of and ridden.

yeah i agree with all the above but i have seen sport bikes with 65,000 that still run very strong but were well takein care of

ive actually never seen a bike over 32k miles. its sad really, it means people total them sooner or later. jeez, sorry for the morbid thought.

My previous bike ('97 F3) had 78k miles when i sold it. And it was still a very track worthy bike. I wanted to keep it until 100k miles (which I had no doubt it would reach) but my family bought my present bike for me on Father's Day. My buddy has a '96 F3 with almost 90k miles on it. I know of other CBRs with over 100k miles on them.

Maintenance is the key!!!!!

IMHO, people put too much emphasis on mileage as an indication of the condition of the bike. You can have a bike with only a few thousand miles on it and be total junk because the owner abuses it (e.g. wheelies, burnouts, etc). Or just as bad, you can have a bike with low mileage but has sat for several years. Non-use is a killer of engines!

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ORIGINAL: abadfish

Maintenance is the key!!!!!

IMHO, people put too much emphasis on mileage as an indication of the condition of the bike. You can have a bike with only a few thousand miles on it and be total junk because the owner abuses it (e.g. wheelies, burnouts, etc). Or just as bad, you can have a bike with low mileage but has sat for several years. Non-use is a killer of engines!

totally agree. i would rather buy a 50,000 mile well kept bike than a 5,000 mile no mantenence burnout machine.

I agree on what some of the others are saying. It is hard to say. I had a cbr1100xx with 72,580 miles on it. Believe me those were the most hardest earned miles of a big bike I have ever seen. Do some investigating when looking at a bike. I went to the dealer with a friend and the bike had about 20k on it. The dealer was asking a fair price may be a bit over blue book. But as I poked around I had seen there was plastic burn on the fairing, right by the exhaust. So I asked the sales men hey had this bike been laid down? His reply of course...oh no...it has brand new plastics? Hmm why would it have brand new plastics if it has not been laid down. The plastics that were on there were also damaged. To make it short they knocked the price waaaaay down, gave my buddy a nice helmet. You can thank OCS for that one.

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ORIGINAL: NINE2NINE

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ORIGINAL: abadfish

Maintenance is the key!!!!!

IMHO, people put too much emphasis on mileage as an indication of the condition of the bike. You can have a bike with only a few thousand miles on it and be total junk because the owner abuses it (e.g. wheelies, burnouts, etc). Or just as bad, you can have a bike with low mileage but has sat for several years. Non-use is a killer of engines!

totally agree. i would rather buy a 50,000 mile well kept bike than a 5,000 mile no mantenence burnout machine.

That is what is so hard to decide with used bikes. You just never know what you are getting, especially if you buy used from a dealer. That is why I ended up getting new. I just didn't want to take the risk. I would get as much info. as you can from the owner

If the engine is well taken care of, the suspension will wear down before the motor does. On a bike thats been riden hard for 7-10 years, its a good idea to look at the well being of the supsension. More than likely it has begun to sag and get soft over that amount of time. Springs fatigue and rubber seals break down.

Thanks for the info everyone, I appreciate it.

10, thats far to many, lol.

Check kelly blue book...it'll show you the mileage you should be at for resale and trade-in. It's a good rule of thumb if you ask me. http://www.kbb.com/kb/ki.dll/ke.kb.sz?kbb&&&zip;5419;mc
just puch in your zip code and run from there.