How many miles can you put on a GS500F?

[sleepydoc]

New to the board, so let me know if this has been covered somewhere else.  I'm looking for a bike to commute on--90 miles round trip daily.  So, clearly, I'll be putting a lot of miles on the bike and I was wondering how many miles I can expect to get out of a GS500F.

[scottpA_GS]

60K+ If you take good care of it  Even more is very realistic 

[The Buddha]

If you did mostly highway, very good chance you can get 100K. GSJack here has aptly demonstrated that good up keep and highway use will make for a 100K easy.
I OTOH have proved that it dies at 40K if you flog it, commute on it and maintain it OK.
Cool.
Buddha.

[DoD#i]

If you replace parts as they wear out, forever, more or less.

If there isn't an error with my title, there's 121K on mine - but there might well be a title error (not that the title folks gave it any grief - just a question of was the "beyond odometer reading" box checked correctly, or incorrectly?)

[dadsafrantic]

New to the board, so let me know if this has been covered somewhere else.  I'm looking for a bike to commute on--90 miles round trip daily.  So, clearly, I'll be putting a lot of miles on the bike and I was wondering how many miles I can expect to get out of a GS500F.

i commute around 18k per year now and have 25006 miles in less than 2 years.  do the oil fequently.  keep the revs below 6 k and do the rest of the maintenance and you will have a trouble free ride.  i am hoping to maybe go bigger some day.  i will only do a twin though.  maybe a little guuzi.

[sleepydoc]

Thanks all.  Seems that maintenance is key here.  In terms of oil changes and other routine maintenance--is it easy to do at home?

[beRto]

Thanks all.  Seems that maintenance is key here.  In terms of oil changes and other routine maintenance--is it easy to do at home?

Yes!

I suggest you buy a shop manual (Clymer or Haynes) and supplement it with all of the useful information on the forums. Make sure you ask questions before you start a job!

[Archer]

Keep the RPMs at 6k or under?  Is that even possible? lol  dang i have a heavy wrist...

[beRto]

Keep the RPMs at 6k or under?  Is that even possible? lol  dang i have a heavy wrist...

I didn't see this suggested anywhere? Certainly wouldn't be much fun!

[sledge]

Its a very ambiguous question...... In theory the answer is forever!. The only thing stopping you from servicing it every 4k and replacing parts as they wear and fail until you drop dead from old age is cash!!

Its like the old joke................My neighbour has owned the same yard-brush for 45 years........but he has had to replace the head 30 times and the handle 15 times.

Check out the last para` in this link......http://www.bobpickett.co.uk/bkit/1997gs500e.htm