Life Span

[seb421]

Wierd one;

just wondering how many miles on average a regularly serviced firestorm engine could clock up in its life and still run okay

a friend has 140,000 miles on his bike (XJR 1300) most of that in town riding and his bike still run sweet as a nut and no strange rattle's noises or blue smoke, he said he just looked after it and changed the oil and filters regulaly, he uses the bike for work as an instuctor

just wondering how many miles would be reasonable from the twin before it needs scrapping if its looked after, most of my miles are down the motorway at the moment, with it only having a good thrashing in the summer and the odd quick blast past some cars on an open road at the moment

[Twinpotter]

Although not a VTR (a twin nonetheless), my pal still rides courier on his NTV650. An almost religeous servicing routine has 200k on the clock and despite the loose box, it still has plenty of life. When you're eaking a living out of these machines (as I have done) it pays double back to keep her sweet.

[Jbrebel]

The highest mileage vtr I've seen in a few years was Bob's (vtrbob) with about 70k on it. That looked like it would go forever

[Zakalwe]

The highest mileage vtr I've seen in a few years was Bob's (vtrbob) with about 70k on it. That looked like it would go forever

A bloke over on the US forum Speedzilla had 106K on a SP1. No problems (or at least none until some old biddy ploughed into him at a junction and cracked the swingarm).

[Phil-VTwin]

Here is a useless fact for you...when the odo reaches 999,999 miles it stops working.....

[sirch345]

Seb,

One of our members on here "Grimley59" has covered 125,000 miles on his Firestorm and that was almost 12 mths ago, so probably more by now See link below.

CLICKY

Chris.

[mik_str]

Mine currently has 130,000 km on it and still runs like a top (fires right up no matter how cold and burns no oil). (aside: this, however, amplifies my rebuilding conundrum as I have two spanking new 0.5 mm OS hi-comp JE forged pistons (with moly skirt coating and ceramic top coat) waiting to be installed.....). One chap on the Superhawkforum (caffeineracer) had over 100,000 miles on his last I heard and it still ran fine.....

[bikerpiker]

Seb,

One of our members on here "Grimley59" has covered 125,000 miles on his Firestorm and that was almost 12 mths ago, so probably more by now See link below.

CLICKY

Chris.

I remember the chap ,.......very impressive ,125k miles and only his 1st cct failure ,.......i'm gonna pm him and ask him to pick my lottery numbers

[bazza696]

Here is a useless fact for you...when the odo reaches 999,999 miles it stops working.....

I thought it carried on and started a zero, its the bike that stops working when it reached 999,999... :wink2

[sirch345]

It's a bit like the old boy in the factory who sweeps the floor and says he's had the same brush for 30 years.
It's only had 12 new handles and 20 new heads.

I thought that was Trigger from "Only Fools And Horses"

Chris.

[VTR Marmite]

It was Chris.......

"Alright Dave?"

Trigger.....classic

[storminateacup]

It's a bit like the old boy in the factory who sweeps the floor and says he's had the same brush for 30 years.
It's only had 12 new handles and 20 new heads.

Hey I've got one of those, wife bought a new head for the broom recently but the handle did'nt fit bought a new handle should get another five years out of that old broom now