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    25,000km

    Damn. The clock ticked over 25,000km this morning. That's in a little under seventeen months...didn't expect to go crazy when I got another bike...at this rate it will wear out before I do...
    So much for "saving petrol by communting on a bike..."
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    Nowt wrong with starting out gradually.

    Keep at it and soon enough you'll be clocking up 40000 a year. And from there on the sky's the limit.

    You can start clocking up the km a bit faster once the bike's run in.
    Quote Originally Posted by skidmark
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    Quote Originally Posted by slofox View Post
    Damn. The clock ticked over 25,000km this morning. That's in a little under seventeen months...didn't expect to go crazy when I got another bike...at this rate it will wear out before I do...
    So much for "saving petrol by communting on a bike..."
    get back to me when its 50k a year

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    25k over 17 months? pah!
    I put 70,000km on my Speed Four in the 3 years I had it...

    ...one of these days Mowgli is going to find it missing from his garage...

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    Yeah? Well my dad's bigger than your dad

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    Is not!....

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    Owned Katie for 11 months, on the road for about 8 (rest in shop having custom work / repaired etc )

    23,000km... and its not my primary bike either.
    Quote Originally Posted by Jane Omorogbe from UK MSN on the KTM990SM
    It's barking mad and if it doesn't turn you into a complete loon within half an hour of cocking a leg over the lofty 875mm seat height, I'll eat my Arai.

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    You totally cant call yours 'Katie' too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Devil View Post
    You totally cant call yours 'Katie' too.
    Listen here tubby... I ain't the one listing Triumph and KTM as bikes, when I don't have them! You've moved to that whale, time to accept it now!

    her longer name is Katie mmmmmmmmm
    Quote Originally Posted by Jane Omorogbe from UK MSN on the KTM990SM
    It's barking mad and if it doesn't turn you into a complete loon within half an hour of cocking a leg over the lofty 875mm seat height, I'll eat my Arai.

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    Quote Originally Posted by slofox View Post
    Damn. The clock ticked over 25,000km this morning. That's in a little under seventeen months...didn't expect to go crazy when I got another bike...at this rate it will wear out before I do...
    So much for "saving petrol by communting on a bike..."
    You do seem to get more pleasurable rides out of your bike than most do, so well done on your 25k.

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    Quote Originally Posted by YellowDog View Post
    You do seem to get more pleasurable rides out of your bike than most do, so well done on your 25k.
    Thank you YellowDog. I do enjoy it immensely. Pity about the years I wasted without a bike really but then I might not be liking it so much now if I hadn't gone without...absence maketh the fart go honda y'know...hmmm hang on, something screwy there - it's a Suzuki innit? goldurnmuthafukkinsonuvvamumbletybum...bloody blank bits seem to be joining up these days...
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    I don't spend as much time on the bike as either you ro Devil, but I can't believe that 35,000km rolled around on the clock on the Zed in the Sth Island last weekend or that I've owned it for nearly 4 years.

    Great thing about modern bikes (shut up sonny) is that with regular fettling a cuple of freshened up components you can easily expect 10 years of thrashing without major mechanical mayhem.

    Congrats!
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    yep bikes get used more than a car, you ride them for fun. shit can you even have fun in a car apart from getting head?

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