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Old 29-03-12, 10:52
uberthumper uberthumper is offline
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uberthumper is on a distinguished road
Mine will go through 31,000 miles on Sunday, in the middle of a rally.


It's come home on a trailer once in my ownership - when I rode it into three feet of water on Salisbury Plain. I can hardly blame the bike for that.

It also had the reg/rec plug issue before I bought it. That can be prevented, and if your bike is a genuine '09 model (mine is an '09 reg '08 bike) then it's a non-issue anyway.


A few things have worn out quicker than I'd like, but nothing that isn't easily replaced, and my bike has probably lived a slightly harder than average life, and received a slightly lower than average amount of TLC .

In other words, don't worry.

Edit to add: Mine is a money pit, but that's because I like shiny things, not because of unreliability
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