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Title: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: DuciD03 on September 23, 2008, 11:58:50 PM
 [popcorn]

This should be amusing ..... lets see who has the highest mile duc arourd, all should post - year and milage would be intresting....  post away ducatists ...and the most miles per year of bike

Year, make and miles (if in km please convert 1.6 km to a mile).

03 - 800 - total 23K miles average = 4,600 miles per year .... [moto]

Just to start, all should post and I'm sure theres much higher around .... next.
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: lethe on September 24, 2008, 12:42:10 AM
I think PhilB who can be found at another forum wins.
He's at 155,000+ on a '93  Monster.
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: ellingly on September 24, 2008, 01:14:40 AM
Where's bigiain when you need him?
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: Super T.I.B on September 24, 2008, 01:56:50 AM
Quote from: ellingly on September 24, 2008, 01:14:40 AM
Where's bigiain when you need him?

Exactly!

BIG! Get your arse in here!
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: red baron on September 24, 2008, 05:34:13 AM
Quote from: lethe on September 24, 2008, 12:42:10 AM
I think PhilB who can be found at another forum wins.
He's at 155,000+ on a '93  Monster.

Yup, Phil's beloved is now over 156,000.
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: A.duc.H.duc. on September 24, 2008, 05:45:37 AM
Bigian has a lot, but as far as I know Phil's is the highest I've seen. Of course our little web community is a small fraction of the ducati riders worldwide.
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: IZ on September 24, 2008, 05:51:31 AM
'03  620 (bought new)  62,000 miles = 99,779328 km  


I was on the "PhilB track" getting around 55,000 in 3 years.  
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: the_Journeyman on September 24, 2008, 05:54:07 AM
Wow.  People do a double take when I tell 'em I've got 30,000 on my '99 M750.  I hope to see mileage like this thread is showing!

JM
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: MostroS2R on September 24, 2008, 06:08:16 AM
Quote from: trouble on September 24, 2008, 05:34:13 AM
Yup, Phil's beloved is now over 156,000.

Wow, that is amazing. Any rebuild needed???

I average about 3000 to 5000 miles a year, depending on weather.
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: Howie on September 24, 2008, 07:28:36 AM
49K miles on my '01.
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: Cynic on September 24, 2008, 07:32:12 AM
I have 36k on my 05 620 I got it with 1k on it mid 06, so I'm doing like 12k+ ish a year.
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: ltnuke on September 24, 2008, 08:42:45 AM
'07 695, purchased in summer of '06 = 24k miles.  I'm doing about 9k miles a year after this year is over.
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: GLantern on September 24, 2008, 09:12:38 AM
5,200 on my 08 1098 with many more to come.  I have had it for 4 months.
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: Porsche Monkey on September 24, 2008, 10:08:16 AM
Just turned 33,000 last night on my 97 M900 while riding home from work in the rain.   [thumbsup]
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: Rameses on September 24, 2008, 10:09:46 AM
Quote from: IZ on September 24, 2008, 05:51:31 AM
I was on the "PhilB track" getting around 55,000 in 3 years.  



Wow.

What'd you do, ride it to your new place every time you moved??

[cheeky]
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: MikeZ on September 24, 2008, 10:17:14 AM
14,300 miles on my 03' M1000
3200 miles since I bought it and got it on the road in May
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: LA on September 24, 2008, 10:35:36 AM
S4RS bought June 10, 2006.

Currently 27,000 mi.

I put a 1000 mi. a month -27 months. [moto]

LA
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: MikeZ on September 24, 2008, 10:41:47 AM
Quote from: LA on September 24, 2008, 10:35:36 AM
S4RS bought June 10, 2006.

Currently 27,000 mi.

I put a 1000 mi. a month -27 months. [moto]

LA
Damn!  I'm jealous!
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: Spidey on September 24, 2008, 10:59:17 AM
Duki?  I haven't heard that one before, but it sounds gross.
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: MotoCreations on September 24, 2008, 11:42:53 AM
A friends S2R800 will hit 70K this weekend.  Her M750 was @97K before she got hit.
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: DuciD03 on September 24, 2008, 02:00:17 PM
Quote from: Spidey on September 24, 2008, 10:59:17 AM
Duki?  I haven't heard that one before, but it sounds gross.

lol ... I won't ask why it sounds gross; Ducati - shortened - FYI - "Duci" sounds like "Duki"; yes? come on it rhymes puki too ... ohhh never mind .... "duc" sounds wiered too ... lol.   Somewhere along the way people were calling me ducati dave; and saying "nice ducati dave" and then it got shortened ..... better than "Duckey" Dave ....OMG!
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: DuciD03 on September 24, 2008, 02:04:37 PM
Quote from: IZ on September 24, 2008, 05:51:31 AM
'03  620 (bought new)  62,000 miles = 99,779328 km  


I was on the "PhilB track" getting around 55,000 in 3 years.  

.... 12,400 per year .... Impressive! 

What has worn out and been replaced with that sort of milage?  What sort of servicing has been all important?

Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: Popeye the Sailor on September 24, 2008, 02:08:59 PM
04" S4R bought new in August '06 with 8 miles on it.

Currently over 28k on it-so 14k or so a year.
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: Porsche Monkey on September 24, 2008, 02:23:55 PM
Quote from: DuciD03 on September 23, 2008, 11:58:50 PM
[popcorn]

This should be amusing ..... lets see who has the highest mile duc arourd, all should post - year and milage would be intresting....  post away ducatists ...and the most miles per year of bike

Year, make and miles (if in km please convert 1.6 km to a mile).

03 - 800 - total 23K miles average = 4,600 miles per year .... [moto]

Just to start, all should post and I'm sure theres much higher around .... next.


I ran through some duki once.  Never thought I was riding on one.
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: Bick on September 24, 2008, 02:39:11 PM
Quote from: IZ on September 24, 2008, 05:51:31 AM
'03  620 (bought new)  62,000 miles = 99,779328 km  


I was on the "PhilB track" getting around 55,000 in 3 years.  

Sarcastic moving van comment withheld.   ;D

----

05 S2R, coming up on 30,000 miles (so I am just under 10k/yr)

Add to that multiple bikes with @ 5-6k/year

AND

3-4 MONTHS OF COLD & SNOWY WINTERS.
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: Henecton on September 24, 2008, 04:37:53 PM
I was averaging a little over 10,000 a year on my 2007 M695 until I got hit. I have 2007 Multistrada that I bought in August and am averaging over 1000 miles a month on it. I'd hate to see the miles some folks would rack up if they had a Multi or an ST.
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: DCXCV on September 24, 2008, 04:48:30 PM
18,300 after 17 months on an '07 695

Close to 13k/year


Quote from: DuciD03 on September 24, 2008, 02:00:17 PM
lol ... I won't ask why it sounds gross; Ducati - shortened - FYI - "Duci" sounds like "Duki"; yes? come on it rhymes puki too ... ohhh never mind .... "duc" sounds wiered too ... lol.   Somewhere along the way people were calling me ducati dave; and saying "nice ducati dave" and then it got shortened ..... better than "Duckey" Dave ....OMG!

Duc = Duck  [thumbsup]
Duki = Dookie = poo  :-X

Better to be a duck than #2, but then that's just my opinion.  ;D


Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: stopintime on September 24, 2008, 04:50:32 PM
6 months - 10,200    

If we had year round riding conditions here in Norway I would beat you all  [evil] I think I need the winter to get my friends back, been neglecting them to ride, mod and BS here  [thumbsup]
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: DucHead on September 24, 2008, 06:09:14 PM
32000 miles on my '05 (plus 46000 on my '04 Bandit).
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: mostrobelle on September 24, 2008, 06:39:48 PM
I'm gettin' close to 52,000 on my '94.  Bought it with about 18K on it, five years ago, and I've been riding it solidly for about four years now.  I'd looooove to hit 100K on it, but think that the parts for it will be extinct by the time I do.   [laugh]
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: redxblack on September 24, 2008, 07:28:58 PM
02 M750 = 21,000 on it right now, but it had been sitting in a garage for the last 2 years. my brother (userid: 13) racked almost all of them up in a short period before leaving the country. maybe he can chime in on his averages.
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: The Bacon Junkie on September 24, 2008, 08:57:18 PM
Quote from: the_Journeyman on September 24, 2008, 05:54:07 AM
Wow.  People do a double take when I tell 'em I've got 30,000 on my '99 M750.  I hope to see mileage like this thread is showing!

JM

I  picked up my '99 M750 a year ago with 23k and change.   Now at 33k...  almost 10,000 miles in a year and a few months...   [evil]   ;D  [moto]
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: ROBsS4R on September 24, 2008, 09:39:20 PM
I am averaging about 15k a year right now.
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: Super T.I.B on September 24, 2008, 09:42:55 PM
I'm gonna have to come in here for bigiain, he's taking his time posting in this thread  [roll]

99 M750 200000km's/125000 miles. Probably more by now.  ;)

QuoteI pretty much always get ~20,000km out of a front, so ~10 of them.
I used to use MEZ3's and only get ~7000 out of a rear, I switched to harder Bridgestones a few years back and now get ~20,000km out of a BT020, so maybe 12 or 14 rears.
I get ~40,000km from a chain on new sprockets and ~30,000 on old sprockets, so say 6 chains and 4 sprocket changes.
Rear brakes last me forever (I put my second replacement set in a few weeks back, ~100,000km per set). Fronts last ~40,000, so 5 sets there.
Oil every 5,000km, so 40 oil changes (mostly but not always including filters, only once have I ever changed crush washers).
It's never had a "rebuild" as such, it came apart at ~75000 km for a failing crank main bearing, and got put back together with new crank bearings and piston rings, and a few new seals and orings, but the big ends, little ends, and cylinder heads have never been apart, and the gearbox is running the original bearings.

Other replacement things, it's on it's 3rd main relay, 2nd starter relay, 3rd set of wheel bearings, the rear brake master has been replaced, the clutch master has had a seal kit put in, the clutch slave had 2 new OEM seals then a Yoyodyne replacement piston with orings, the crankcase breather has been replaced when it started leaking, a chain adjuster bolt got replaced when it came loose and damaged itself against the sprocket, the shock got rebuilt at ~160,000km when it dumped all its oil over the rear tire, the forks have had new oil 3 or 4 times but no new seals or slider bushes.

big
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: LA on September 25, 2008, 06:56:17 AM
I guess my record Ducati is my old Black and Gold Bev. Drv. 900ss - put 130,000 mi. on it. It's resting now as it is worn slap out. After the ss got parked I rode the old Norton 850 until I got my old 04 S4R - a little over 100,000 mi. on the Norton. The Norton never missed a beat and will start right up now. Don't know how they got a rep for unreliability.

LA
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: Desmo Demon on September 26, 2008, 07:21:01 AM
All of my bikes, other than my Harley, are pleasure vehicles, so they are only ridden on the weekends or whenever the mood strikes me. It's nice having multiple bikes that are tagged and roadworthy because I've been averaging about 20k miles a year for the last four years and have averaged around 10k per year since 1993. Here is the data on the two Ducs that I bought new and then the others since buying them for my wife and me:

1) 1998 ST2 - 38k miles (bought in 2000, so around 4750 mi/yr since purchase)
2) 2002 748 - 18k miles (bought in 2003, so around 3000 mi/yr since purchase)
3) 2001 M900ie - 1k miles since May (bought in May of this year (bike has 12k miles on it)
4) 1998 ST2 - 1k miles since June (bought in late May of this year (bike has 23k miles)
5) 1987 Paso 750 - 1k miles since getting it on the road in May of this year (bike has 30k miles)

The Harley is mainly a commuter. It has 102k miles on it (bought with 16k in '93), so it is averaging close to 6k miles a year with a low of only 800 miles in a year and a high around 22k miles in a single year.
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: DEVO! on September 26, 2008, 11:51:55 AM
07' 695 bought in June 07 I now have 13k [moto]
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: bigiain on September 26, 2008, 11:17:40 PM
Quote from: A.duc.H.duc. on September 24, 2008, 05:45:37 AM
Bigian has a lot, but as far as I know Phil's is the highest I've seen.

Yeah, PhilB's still beating me, I'm on 213,000km (~133k miles) now - it's a '99 M750 that I've owned since new (I rode it out of the dealership on 2 Dec '99 - it'll be 10 years in a few months...)

big (and in that same time I've done almost the same distance on my Honda Spada(s)...)
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: Scottish on September 27, 2008, 09:00:12 AM
07 695 13,247 total I got it on the road from previous owner in early june 08 with 9,400 on the clock. So I've done about 4k over the summer.
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: hooksem on September 27, 2008, 10:38:10 AM
Quote from: GLantern on September 24, 2008, 09:12:38 AM
5,200 on my 08 1098 with many more to come.  I have had it for 4 months.

07 S2R 1000 that I purchased on July 15th (with 143 miles).  I am going to hit 3k miles tomorrow morning.  :-)  I love it!
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: MikeZ on September 29, 2008, 05:27:59 AM
Quote from: bigiain on September 26, 2008, 11:17:40 PM
Yeah, PhilB's still beating me, I'm on 213,000km (~133k miles) now - it's a '99 M750 that I've owned since new (I rode it out of the dealership on 2 Dec '99 - it'll be 10 years in a few months...)
Are you still running the original engine?
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: bigiain on September 29, 2008, 05:33:27 AM
Quote from: MikeZ on September 29, 2008, 05:27:59 AM
Are you still running the original engine?


It's had new crank bearings and rings, but everything else is original...

big
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: Grampa on September 29, 2008, 02:46:27 PM
lookie what I saw this weekend


(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t180/bobspapa/PICT0137.jpg?t=1222701259)


8)


met the bike..... but not the man
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: Popeye the Sailor on September 29, 2008, 04:18:19 PM
Quote from: bobspapa on September 29, 2008, 02:46:27 PM
lookie what I saw this weekend


(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t180/bobspapa/PICT0137.jpg?t=1222701259)


8)


met the bike..... but not the man

You jeep posting that picture. I have no idea what the backstory is.
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: lethe on September 29, 2008, 04:31:29 PM
Quote from: someguy on September 29, 2008, 04:18:19 PM
You jeep posting that picture. I have no idea what the backstory is.
Tis PhilB's bike.
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: red baron on September 29, 2008, 05:07:34 PM
Quote from: someguy on September 29, 2008, 04:18:19 PM
You jeep posting that picture. I have no idea what the backstory is.

jealous [cheeky]
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: lemond on September 29, 2008, 08:16:05 PM
what is the secret being able to keep these duc running as long as they have had?
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: Rameses on September 29, 2008, 08:17:53 PM
Quote from: lemond on September 29, 2008, 08:16:05 PM
what is the secret being able to keep these duc running as long as they have had?


Change the oil and adjust the valves.
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: bigiain on September 29, 2008, 08:24:48 PM
Quote from: Rameses on September 29, 2008, 08:17:53 PM

Change the oil and adjust the valves.

+1

I'm pretty confident that fresh oil every 5000km (~3k miles) has helped greatly in keeping my bike alive.

I also thing using it regularly helps a lot too - I hear more reports of a certain class of problems from people who have to "winter" their bikes - pretty much the longest mine ever goes without being ridden is the 3 weeks I spend away each year - apart from that it rarely goes even 3 or 4 days without getting a run.

big
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: Popeye the Sailor on September 29, 2008, 08:30:28 PM
Weird-my buddies '05 620 managed about 43k before we had to rebuild the top end (valve guides), and he did all the maintenance as it should've been done.
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: bigiain on September 29, 2008, 08:39:54 PM
Quote from: someguy on September 29, 2008, 08:30:28 PM
Weird-my buddies '05 620 managed about 43k before we had to rebuild the top end (valve guides), and he did all the maintenance as it should've been done.

I wonder if that's cause the 620s have a much revvier motor than my old 750?

big
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: Popeye the Sailor on September 29, 2008, 08:41:44 PM
Quote from: bigiain on September 29, 2008, 08:39:54 PM
I wonder if that's cause the 620s have a much revvier motor than my old 750?

big

Most likely. That and a large amount of the mileage was highway, so it was routinely held at high revs.
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: ellingly on September 29, 2008, 10:14:29 PM
Or, we're looking at the statistical distribution of engine longevity. Some motors last forever, some crap out nice and early.
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: ducatsSF on October 01, 2008, 07:42:47 PM
42 k on a 01 750, w a full termi, and 14/41 set up... I do a lot of commuter miles, how can I make the engine work easier?   ???
Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: Popeye the Sailor on October 02, 2008, 01:13:19 PM
Quote from: ducatsSF on October 01, 2008, 07:42:47 PM
42 k on a 01 750, w a full termi, and 14/41 set up... I do a lot of commuter miles, how can I make the engine work easier?   ???

Swap the sprockets.

Title: Re: Highest Mile Duki around? per year?
Post by: Spicoli on October 02, 2008, 03:10:20 PM
Bought a 2009 696 on July 22nd.  October 1st I had 6450 miles.