Way hey! 50 000 miles up on my 748!
 

Clocked over the 50k mark on my 748 coming home from work yesterday (in foul weather, I might add).

51 reg, collected from dealers on Jan 6, 2002.

Overall it's been/is a great bike, and has taken a lot of stick in bad weather use and so on. No garage so it sits outside in the rain all year round.

"Consumables" include a couple of replacement ignition switches (2nd hand, cheap) probably due to the reason above. One and a half rectifiers (1 new, 1 2nd hand). One opening rocker. Couple of sets of front wheel bearings, ditto steering head bearings (to be expected). OE discs were replaced around 40k (not bad) and I treated myself to 4-pad callipers at the same time, although the original callipers were quite serviceable at the time. So brakes now better than ever.

And a few clutches, of course!:lol:


Can I claim the Club 4-valve record?:eureka:

Excellent stuff, i salute you, and sounds like a club record.

You don't say how much you've spent at the osteopaths though:lol:

You've got me done.

I can't believe you've done 50k and only replaced one rocker!

:devil::lol:

I may have to hurt you, nothing personal you understand ...

:ninja:

Have you seen the size of Dirk (BDG) Diggler? :frog:

Once or twice, but everyone has knee's Jon ;)

"I may have to hurt you, nothing personal you understand ..."

Shaun-can I have the franchise for the ticket sales please??:lol::lol::lol:

In the green corner we have the one legged gobby Aussie, and in the red corner the Irish German giant.............should be a good fight.:lol::lol::lol:

[Edited on 30-11-2005 by Monty]

i take my hat off to you !!

nice record

Oh God what have i said, its a joke about your amount of posts, i love yer really, honestly, promise, i'll send you some flowers.:lol:

Lets not hijack a serious thread for once

[Edited on 30-11-2005 by BDG]

Ok ... I'll let you off this time, but you're on probation!

;)

:frog:

well done Fred:D - and congrats.

Didnt you have an 'off' earlier this year? - thus curtailing your riding for a while, so you could have actually done more:P

C

I Know its not 50,000 miles but I managed 26,000 in 14 months on my T Plate 916 before some Bast'td nicked it.

CK> The bike was off the road for all of August and half of September; prime biking weather too, so I missed a lot of the good weather. All's OK now, though: new nose-cone, new seat, new RHS fairing panels... :)

Mind you the smile'll be wiped off my face when I get my big service done soon (it's nominally the 48000m one, but with a bit "drift", it's my 51000 one ;) .

TP> I reckon it's because I've done 50k miles that I've only replaced one rocker.


pibbow> That's not too shabby, either! Still, I know what you're like in Scotland with your 500 mile ride-outs!

Bloody Brill that - I even got a photo sent with 50001 on it :D

Well done Fred and yellow Duke ;) Heres to the next 50k