High Mileage Valkyrie?

[zd426]

Wow I had no idea these bikes could go that far past 100K.

Bought mine with 28k on it... got 29k ATM.

[cookiedough]

I see very few high mileagers from the midwest - darn winters not able to drive 5 months of the year. 

I'm lucky to get 4-5K miles per year.  Should last me the rest of my life and then some.

[Kendall]

Kendall 99 white interstate 125263        Des 97 purple n white standard turned tourer 124156

[cashman]

The green and silver has a diamond plated trailer that I just sold to my nephew that has a tourer!

Oh yeah I remember now. Didn't you fly out to Oregon or somewhere for the green & silver? If I am remembering it correctly it had a really unique diamond plate trailer with it.

Yep, that's the one!

[chip]

Ok Carl, please add me to the list. Rolled over 100,000 last spring on the 2000 IS. Its currently at 102,000. I've been riding the  2001 IS Its got à long way to go, purchased it early this summer with only 6250 miles on it.

[Kunkies]

2000 GL1500CT Valkyrie Tourer 31,000  (seems as though I'm just a baby)

[Romeo]

'99 Tourer, 107,573

[Willow]

I see very few high mileagers from the midwest - darn winters not able to drive 5 months of the year. 

I'm lucky to get 4-5K miles per year.  Should last me the rest of my life and then some.

You must have a very limited view of what is the midwest.  I was pretty sure we didn't list location on that table.   

Four to five thousand miles per year?  I probably wouldn't even bother with it.

[saddlesore]

I have a 1999 standard with 126,000+ miles on it.  I bought it new. This year I'm over 11,000 miles.
The most I put on in a year was 22,000.     I live in Sheboygan, WI and consider that  the midwest.
Considering the condition I'm in I feel lucky to ride the miles I do.

[BobB]

I have a 1999 standard with 126,000+ miles on it.  I bought it new. This year I'm over 11,000 miles.
The most I put on in a year was 22,000.     I live in Sheboygan, WI and consider that  the midwest.
Considering the condition I'm in I feel lucky to ride the miles I do.

That's a lot of miles on a Northern bike.  My '98 just turned 88k, and it has endured three owners in Minnesota and Iowa.  Considering we put the bike up five months a year, yours would translate to 216,000+ if ridden twelve months a year. 

[fiddle mike]

1997 Standard. 206,000.

[R J]

I see very few high mileagers from the midwest - darn winters not able to drive 5 months of the year.  

I'm lucky to get 4-5K miles per year.  Should last me the rest of my life and then some.

There is a green/creme one aka MGM from the Midwest with 243K+ on it, and currently being ridden by my son and daughter.

Prior to that it has not had a vacation the past few years.    Due to O2 requirements, I had to slow way down on riding him.

Only time he was rode in the snow was in Wyoming on a trip home from California.

It was a sloppy slush.    Rode down the road about 20 to 25 mph and left a 2 1/2 foot tire path.      Trailer knocked out another big swatch.   It was fun to watch it spray out to the side like water puddles do.    LOL      

[greggh]

98 std
101,000.
86k of them are mine.
Just rolled over last Thursday.

[heavyd]

97 Standard rolled over 122k kms last weekend, around 50k of those were mine and I've only been riding 3.5 years + I have a second bike. I live on the east coast of Canada so our riding season is pretty limited.

[eric in md]

  im a slow poke    99 interstate 118500  smile every mile sept 2014

[Radman]

2000 blue/silver I/S with 105K+, 52K+ are mine in the four and a half years I owned her...a lot more to go to catch up with you guys.

[Radman]

And yes, that's converted to miles. Otherwise 170K+ kms in total and 84K+ kms are mine.

[DirtyDan]

165 k

Dan

[DirtyDan]

update

174,000 miles

24k this ride 

home safe

dan

[Hoser]

update

174,000 miles

24k this ride 

home safe

dan

Glad yer home, Dan, me too, after 8 days in the Hospital, it's time to repair the fatlady.  With 134,000 miles on it, should outlast me.   

[Daniel Meyer]

24k this ride 

Sounds like an epic ride! 

[R J]

update

174,000 miles

24k this ride  

home safe

dan

Glad yer home, Dan, me too, after 8 days in the Hospital, it's time to repair the fatlady.  With 134,000 miles on it, should outlast me.  

Dan the man, where did ya go, sounds like a great trip.

Was ya runnin a CT?

If not how many MT did ya go through?

[Rio Wil]

update

174,000 miles

24k this ride 

home safe

dan

YO.....you can't make a statement like "24 K this ride" and just ride off into the sunset with out telling us a little something about the trip.....

[DirtyDan]

left nj june 12th got home nov 12th 24k miles

nj arkanass Arizona California lolo pass Sturgis California Colorado California Colorado Utah new mexico san Antonio floridia home

vroi rally in arkanass

holister rally in California

Sturgis in south Dakota

more to follow

dan

[Challenger]

When I saw your bike in Ak. I figured it had a couple more miles left in it. Good meeting you and glad you got home safely. Now you have time to wax her up and buff out those mufflers. 

[MP]

Hey Dan!

Good to hear from you.  It was great meeting and riding with you in Arkansas.  Sounds like you had a great rest of the trip.  You truly do need to update us.  Thanks for coming to the VOAI Reunion.
'
MP

[DirtyDan]

thank you mp

some one asked

I started on fresh rubber got front and back in Hollister CA then another rear in  Mississippi

the mileage list has an error in it btw Daniel meyer is listed ahead of willow and I with less miles

ps willow check your mirror "extreme neglect and sloppiness" is catching up  giggle

dan

[Willow]

the mileage list has an error in it btw Daniel meyer is listed ahead of willow and I with less miles

ps willow check your mirror "extreme neglect and sloppiness" is catching up  giggle 

No error.  Daniel is ahead of both you and me.

I split my time between two Valks.  How many are you riding?  (It was rhetorical.)  I still don't see much in "extreme neglect and sloppiness" to impress me.  I'll leave it at that.

[trussellcma]

98 Standard with 113,400. She was going 100 mph when she turned 100k.
Terry Russell

[Daniel Meyer]

the mileage list has an error in it btw Daniel meyer is listed ahead of willow and I with less miles

There's a mileage list? I'm currently right about 195,000...bit over that I think (due for an oil change methinks...)

[The emperor has no clothes]

the mileage list has an error in it btw Daniel meyer is listed ahead of willow and I with less miles

There's a mileage list?

Its a govt. compiled list. Your tax bill should be in the mail any day now 

[Daniel Meyer]

the mileage list has an error in it btw Daniel meyer is listed ahead of willow and I with less miles

There's a mileage list?

Its a govt. compiled list. Your tax bill should be in the mail any day now  

Heh...I'd laugh with you...but they do have that data. Collected when I do the mandatory "safety inspection" each year...and pretty much anytime a vehicle is at any auto-service center (seen a Car-fax? Very enlightening)

[czuch]

WOOOHOOOO!!!! I'm on a list that dosent start with, "SH*^"!!!

[Willow]

There's a mileage list? I'm currently right about 195,000...bit over that I think (due for an oil change methinks...)

It's in the first post of this thread, Daniel.  I keep it as up-to-date as the postings in this thread allow. 

[Valker]

Thanks, Willow. Valker is at 140,763.

[Daniel Meyer]

There's a mileage list? I'm currently right about 195,000...bit over that I think (due for an oil change methinks...)

It's in the first post of this thread, Daniel.  I keep it as up-to-date as the postings in this thread allow. 

Doh!

Never would have thought to look for a mileage list in the mileage thread. That's just how I roll sometimes (apparently).

[DDT (12)]

456,038... and 'our' bike is still running strong... In fact, we went for another spin today. I'm even toying with the notion of a road trip, maybe leaving next week, out to the Hill Country and Luckenbach... weather dependent, naturally...

DDT

[Otus]

You go DDT, less than 44k to the 1/2 million mark.

[R J]

Bruce, when the hell do you sleep?

[tank_post142]

DDT leads as mine was destroyed 28 Dec 2013. lucky to have lived through it.