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Just hit 50,000 miles on my R6

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    Default Just hit 50,000 miles on my R6

    ive been so close for a while but its been raining everyday so i havent been able to ride much but ive finally reached the 50k mark...im halfway to my goal on this bike...its an 08 R6S...only thing other than basic maintainance is i had to replace a coil after it was knocked over...it still runs like the day i got it

    so we havent had a "whats your mileage thread" in a while so post up your mileage!

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    Default Re: Just hit 50,000 miles on my R6

    wow...I have an 05 that I bought brand new and I only have......59xx miles lol

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    Default Re: Just hit 50,000 miles on my R6

    '06 R1 that I bought July 6th with about 9,800 miles on it.. Today, about 13 weeks later, and I'm at around 13,500 miles Averaging about 275 miles/week.. Not too shabby.
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    Default Re: Just hit 50,000 miles on my R6

    you better update your sig..

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    Default Re: Just hit 50,000 miles on my R6

    Quote Originally Posted by tamer View Post
    you better update your sig..
    good catch

    I got 30,000 km on my 05. Still rocking solid

    I even have done about 6-7 track days total. I plan to do a couple more next year.

    Over the 50,000 miles have you done trackdays??

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    Default Re: Just hit 50,000 miles on my R6

    The highest milage bike I've ridden on the track was like 20,000 miles...that was my 04. Bike ran awesome. Besides some fluid flushes, air filters and suspension fresh ups bike had no other work done..

    You should be fine, just give it a good once over..Personally I would do the following:
    Fresh Coolant
    Fresh Plugs
    Clean Air Filter
    Fresh Oil
    Fresh fluids in suspension and brakes
    Tires (obvi)

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    Default Re: Just hit 50,000 miles on my R6

    Quote Originally Posted by tamer View Post
    The highest milage bike I've ridden on the track was like 20,000 miles...that was my 04. Bike ran awesome. Besides some fluid flushes, air filters and suspension fresh ups bike had no other work done..

    You should be fine, just give it a good once over..Personally I would do the following:
    Fresh Coolant
    Fresh Plugs
    Clean Air Filter
    Fresh Oil
    Fresh fluids in suspension and brakes
    Tires (obvi)
    Fresh Coolant, I do it twice a year. Not because I am a maniac but because in fall the temperature goes below freezing point I still want to ride couple more weeks and obviously when you go on the track you need to have water as coolant. So necessarily I need to switch between them all the time...
    Fresh, plugs, I am probably due now. Well I will have the bike in all winter, so I will be able to change that again.
    Clean filter, I need to be better at it. I only check that once a year...Looks in good shape though and I oil it when I clean it.
    Fresh oils, is once a year since I always do below 4,000km on it.
    Brakes I never did it so far...and I need to look at that closely. I should probably buy another set of pads shortly. How do you know your rotor needs to be change?
    Suspension fluids, I don't know how to do that....I wish I could do that myself. I probably need to get a suspension guy setup my suspension anyway. Maybe one day at a track day.

    I guess I am not too bad then

    I think the best thing for the bike is not to crash it...that save a ton of works

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    Default Re: Just hit 50,000 miles on my R6

    I have about half that on my 04. But it's been hibernating for some time...

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    Default Re: Just hit 50,000 miles on my R6

    No trackdays with this bike...just all over the southeast...id like to do a coast to coast one day...if its not raining im usually on the bike...im pretty anal about maintenance
    Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.

    Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.

    2008 Yamaha R6S Raven - 50,084 miles

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    Default Re: Just hit 50,000 miles on my R6

    when i had a yamaha , me thinks it had about 15k before she got murdered. damn ninja's



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