r6

[ohgood]

A friend of a friend has a 2002 R6 that he wants to sell for 2200 bucks. Its a beautiful bike, never been dropped, lots of upgrades, maintenanced well (coming from owner). The reason its so cheap  because it has 35500 miles on her. In your guys opinon is this to many miles for a sportbike to be purchased? I don't want to buy it and then 2 months later have to part it out and try to make my money back. What do you guys think? Chef

I wouldn't be afraid of it. Start the bike cold, does it rattle or smoke ? No ? Cool, he prolly took care of it. You don't get 35,000 miles out of a bike without doing -some- maintenance.

Never dropped ? Cool.

$2200 would be a great deal IMHO if that kind of bike was my interest.

Go on and buy it. Enjoy it. Flog it. When it dies, toss another engine in it and ride some more.

GOod luck  and don't let that little bit of money ruin a friendship.

[damond]

+1. I sold my 94 FZR600 with 26,000 something miles, back in 2000, and it still ran strong.

[The Buddha]

Oh the FZR 1000's were built like a tank ...
The R6 - Yea, maintained well = OK. Too much wheelies and BS = bad.
Cool.
Buddha.

[ohgood]

Oh the FZR 1000's were built like a tank ...
The R6 - Yea, maintained well = OK. Too much wheelies and BS = bad.
Cool.
Buddha.

hey ss, would you please merge these two threads ? apparently i had an EASY button to close to me when I posted a reply, and it started a new thread.

Sorry for the duplication folks

[RyanClarke]

Most people get scared of bikes with "high" mileage, but the truth is in the case of sportbikes they usually don't make it to 30,000 miles because they're all too often wrecked by then.  I've got a buddy who has a 01 GSXR that has over 60,000 miles on it that he has both babied (regular tune-ups and maintenance) and beaten the hell out of (wheelies/stoppies/monthly trips to the 1/4 mi track) and it runs fantastic.  As long as he didn't shift at 12,000 rpm in every gear every time and took good care of it that motor has a long life left as long as you do a few more yearly tune-ups.  I'd say go for it.  Hell even if the motor goes tomorrow you can get a new one for $1030 (1000 for the motor, 30 for a few 6 packs to bribe a friend to help you install it) and you've got a "new" bike for $3200

[The Buddha]

Oh the FZR 1000's were built like a tank ...
The R6 - Yea, maintained well = OK. Too much wheelies and BS = bad.
Cool.
Buddha.

hey ss, would you please merge these two threads ? apparently i had an EASY button to close to me when I posted a reply, and it started a new thread.

Sorry for the duplication folks

I remember seeing one about R6, but dont see it now ?
Where is it.
Cool.
Buddha.

[pkhoff]

I think it's this one.

http://gstwins.com/gsboard/index.php?topic=44100.0

[Chuck]

Oh the FZR 1000's were built like a tank ...

Except they made the transmission out of glass. 

[GeeP]

O Rly?

Good ole 2nd gear going kaputt?