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Survey says...mileage

bicyclenut

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Was looking on CycleTrader at various bikes and seems like you find many low mile bikes/scooters out there suggesting either riders only use for very short trips or they sit around not being used much.

This may have been asked before but how about a survey of current mileage on your C650GT or C600 Sport?

Year/Model, mileage and is it your only 2 wheel motorbike?

Mine - 2014 GT, 18,121 Miles, no other bikes...yet.


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I got my 2018 new last November and had barely gotten my endorsement last fall. It's too hot here (Phoenix) to ride much in summer. I have put 2753 miles on it. It's not the only 2-wheeled conveyance I OWN, but it's the only one I actually USE.
 
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2018, bought in Feb, 1600 miles. Weather hasn't been great this year in the mid atlantic. Hoping with the heated goods and windshield I will be riding a bit later in the year. I gotta say I'm loving it so far and ride at almost every opportunity! Other scooter is a 2004 Vespa ET4, which hasn't seen much more than a ride to the gas station this year.
 
davidh said:
Seems right to me. For whatever reason these bikes are much harder on front tires than rear. I typically get 5-6k miles with the front and 7-8k on the rear. Tire make/model doesn't have a ton of bearing on the mileage.
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Ah. Okay, and what do you think of the bike, how you like it?
 
I've only got 11,500 on my '13 GT. But then it shared the garage with my K1100LT which made the longer runs. This summer I put more miles on my Jeep Liberty than the scooter because of all the smoke in our area from the CA and OR forest fires. Really been thick for the last couple months. At least in the car I can filter the air through the cabin filter and keep the AC on so the air in the car recirculates. It's a PIA to use a paper filter mask inside my helmet.
 
Well, I'm on my 4th C650GT in as many years. I crashed my original 2013 after 6 months on the 101 in central California with 12K miles on it. Got a replacement and put 55K miles on that in the following few years, until I traded it in in 2017 for a new C650GT (it was a 2016 model; the dealer told me BMW didn't import any 2017 models). One year later (to the week!) my girlfriend rear ended me as we were riding to Tombstone - had 17K miles on it by that point but sadly it got totaled. So I replaced it on May 12th with a 2018 nodel, and have just turned 10K miles on it.

I like to ride!

Meanwhile, one thing I find interesting is the improvement in MPG on the 2018 - while it's a touch slower off the line and can only get up to about 103MPH tops (the others could hit 110MPH) this new one gets far better mileage - around 60MPG if I keep it below 65MPH, compared to the 48-50MPG I got on the earlier models. BMW must have done something like detune the engine a little bit for better mileage at the expense of top speed.
 
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