what do you consider low mileage

[agentpineapple]

as above really, as a bike gets older i personally think the condition of a bike is more important than the mileage, but so many people use mileage as indicator to weither or not its a good bike, i reckon 1000 miles for each year of the bikes life is low mileage, then theres a case for a bike being under used, a 1000 miles a year can't be that great for a bike can it, unless you wrap it up in cotton wool...
so what do you consider low mileage?

[VTRDark]

Anything under 30,000.

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[seb421]

15,000 to 20,000 for me

[Wicky]

Anything less than 3k per year since it was registered. Though thoroughly check it hasn't been raced ;-)

[firestorm1997]

I anoyes me that people are more intrested in the milage than how the bike has been looked after.
A bike with only 10,000 on the clock may have had only 1 oil change and been ragged every time it was used. when a bike with 30,000+ miles may have been looked after from the start.
I have owned my K5 GSX from new and it has now done 40,000+ miles, always looked after with regular servicing but not always by the dealer. I was offere £2500 if it had full service history (which means the book has to be stamped every 4000 miles) for part ex because of the milage. I told them where to go. This bike has an engine bigger than a lot of cars. If you was buying a car 40,000 would be low milage on an 05 plate car. Whats the difference?

[Duffy1964]

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I think this is about right

[firestorm1997]

How often do you see bikes of 4 or 5 years old up for sale with 4 or 5000 miles on the clock. Why buy a new bike just to look at it. They need to be ridden.

[AMCQ46]

I think once a road bike is over 5yrs old you have to buy on condition and your instict about the previous owners view on maintenance, same as if you are buying a dirt bike.
Milage wont matter much as most big engines will run and run as long as the oil and filters are changed and it is cleaned and oiled to stop corrosion setting in. I would rather see a huge pile of reciepts tucked into a grubby haynes manual than a low milage toy

[StormingHonda]

This seems to have started in the mid 90s, I remember buying bikes years ago and no one really took to much notice of mileage unless it was 60K+ type mileage, the late 90s brought in a new breed of riders who only really rode weekends and chopped bikes every years for a new model, which was a dealers dream and second hand buyers could pick up relatively unridden bikes.

[VTRDark]

The mileage should be taken with a pinch of salt as has been mentioned you could have a low mileage badly treated bike or a high mileage very well looked after bike. Yes have a quick look at what the mileage says and have a look at the rest of the bike and see if it reflects whatever the mileage says.

When it comes to selling bike and you want to make a bit more, then get the clocks put back or get another set with lower miles on the bike. It fools Joe bloggs and matches whatever the what motorcycle or whatever buyers guide says your bike is worth. Just don't give them all the MOT's and hope they don't go online and check MOT history going back all the years. But if they are doing that then their name is not Joe Bloggs.

Myself I have some CBR1000 clocks to go on the bike. So shall fit the CBR clocks, but I want to sort the electrics out, so I can hot swap dashes when it comes to MOT My current Storm clocks are low milage (12,000), so I shall put a couple of hundred on them every year.

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[leevtr]

Maintenence rather than lack of mileage, like has been said before.

I personally like to see them standard ( when I'm buying that is ) than dripping in aftermarket crap. If they have decent bits on though, I don't mind. For instance, if someones gone to the expense of buying Akro's, chanmces are they haven't scrimped on other areas. If its got Vipers on, I'd run a mile.

My old Storm had 44000 when I traded it in......on originall R/R, all original bearings, generally not pissed about with. Proper service every year, plus I changed the oil and filters at least once in between each. Bike never missed a beat, and I bet it would still be going strong now.