Average km's

**Bonez** · 31st March 2006, 18:57

Originally Posted by Fishslayer

I only ride my bike on the weekends (if sunny and I'm not out fishing) and I have done 9500k's since late November.

I have never bought a bike with over 20,000k's on it as in my experience they devalue a bit and become harder to sell once you clock up the k's eh. So I try to buy bikes with under 5'000ks on them as I know I put a few k's on them fairly quickly.

Bought a bike with 50,000kms up and sold it for what I bought it for with an extra 12,000kms up. Bought a bike with 70,000kms up and can sell it for more than I bought it for 20 years later. Go figure..........................

**Coyote** · 31st March 2006, 19:02

If by special occasions you mean when the bike is working, I'd have to say option one

**RiderInBlack** · 31st March 2006, 19:36

Originally Posted by Hitcher

What happened to the range between 20,000 and 40,000km?

I think we need some lessons in how to write survey questions... (written as somebody who averages 35,000km a year on bikes)

Way ta go Hitcher

I've only made 31500Km Feb 05 - Feb 06 and 24000Km the year before. Would like the 20,000 ta 40,000Km myself.

**justsomeguy** · 31st March 2006, 19:47

I 've been riding regularly since very early Jan 2005. I'm sure I'll be pushing 40k bout now.

**crashe** · 31st March 2006, 19:59

My Virago is a 1997 model.
She was 3 years old when I brought her with less than 3000 on the clock...

She is nine years old with 79000 on the clock now.

So my baby is clocking up on average 9000 per year and still running sweet.

So doing some figures:
79000 - 3000 = 76000 devided by 6 yrs = 12,666
is what I am doing on my baby since I have owned her.

Two years ago it had a wee rest for 5 weeks - operation - Carpel Tunnel
Last year she had a 8 week hoilday - operation - Hysterectomy.
Now another 8 week holiday - accident - left knee in legbrace.
So in 6 years of owning her she has had 21 weeks downtime.

**R6_kid:Me** · 31st March 2006, 20:02

i've done a tad under 20,000km on the R6 since end of October last year, so i spose i'd be looking at somewhere between 40,000 and 50,000 for a year.

I really need to get a commuter thrash to keep the km's down but i dont really think im going to sell the R6 in the long term, but rather save up and have a better bike for weekend rides and this one for thrash/track/stunt etc

**SPman** · 31st March 2006, 20:05

14,000 over 5 months, mainly on weekends......

**riffer** · 31st March 2006, 20:08

It's amazing when you actually think about it, but commuting between Upper Hutt and Wellington 5 days a week is putting about 17,000 kms on the bike each year.

Add about 3,000 in fun and its looking a hell of a lot more than I thought. At this rate the bike will have 100,000 kms on it before I know it. Its just under 90000 right now. It had 72000 on it when I bought it 10 months ago.

**Coyote** · 31st March 2006, 20:11

I'm averaging 1500k's a year, excluding dirt k's. Should be lower this year due to the Montesa. I was riding it for 5 hours straight and probably only did about 5-10kms in total

**Storm** · 31st March 2006, 20:12

I'm about 10-15000. It varies by up to 3000km every year, so its not really a set in stone.
Agree with others above though, if a bike has been looked after, it'll keep on chugging no worries- but I spose that goes for anything really

**Wonko** · 31st March 2006, 21:39

if/when I ever have a bike on the road for a full 12 months I'll be looking around the 20-25K

All depends how busy I am, I can clock up a 1000 kms over a weekend. A kb ride on both Sat and Sun.