Centennial 6th Gen

Well people. Today was the day. I went out on the Christmas Toy Run and I crossed that milestone mark on the bike.


100,000 miles!

arty::hitit::boobies3:arty2:eace::rockband:

I have to say, other than the things that I cause to go wrong, like over tightening the oil plug, dropping the bike....seven times, and a few other things I can't even remember, this bike has treated me very well. I rode it though some of the worst weather imaginable. And the worst that happened was burning out the stator in Las Vegas this past spring. Hell, I think it had somewhere around 95,000 iles on it then so that should be expected I guess.

Nothing exciting about where and when I passed this marking point. I was on my way home, on the freeway in the pouring rain. I must comment on my Tourmaster Jacket though. I got wet......

 

Congrats. You're bike's value just went up about 25% too

 

That's awesome Randy. Very cool that you took a picture of the odometer. I did the same thing when my car turned 100K. Is your motor completely stock? Have you ever checked the valves? If so, at what intervals. I'm just curious as to what to expect with mine. I know that these motors are rock solid and your's if proof of that.

 

Everything about the motor i stock. I have a few after market goodies such as Ohlins otherwie. I have had the valves re shimmed a couple times but they were not out that badly. I think what I may do, is give anyone the opportunity to ask here what was done as far as service goes for this bike over the life of it so far and look up what I can. I have all the reciepts. I am kinda a little OCD that way. Still have my first paystub from boh my careers too

 

Congratulations! :cheer2:

 

Congratulation Randy..........awesome :bravo::bravo::bravo::bravo:

 

Can I ask at what intervals you had them done? I know they say at 16K, but that just seems way overkill to me. My bike is at 17K and I plan to go to at least 32K before I have them checked. I kind of get the feeling that this is what most people are doing.

 

:cheersaf: :rockon: :bravo: Way to go, talk about an iron butt. Not to many that can pull this off. and to think you did this on a 6th gen too. :tongue:

 

Cool,,,, !

 

woot! I better get going. Same 6th gen, only 12K miles. This unfun thing called "work" gets in the way, as does "wife"...

 

You will have to do the math here as the figures I give you will be kilometers 1 mile = approx 1.6 km....or close enough.

26.600 km valves were checked....no adjustments
49,872 km checked and re-shimmed
Approx 95 - 100,000 km checked and adjusted (they didn't record the mileage)

85,615 new rectifier

Hop this helps.

 

Correct Tink. I set the bike to imperial measurements when I am in the USA. It is easier. But when at home, it is changed back to metric. And 100,000 miles sounds so much more sexy than 160,934.40 km don't you agree?

We measure our fuel economy as XX km / 100 litres. Sounds odd and it is difficult to wrap your head around that. I think most o us still think miles per gallon here. At least us older farts.

I do't kow if yours will as it is a gen 5.5 but the gen 6 bikes change from metrics to imperial with a push of a button.

 

Hi Stewart, many of us including myself have skip the valve inspection or adjustment and the engine is fine, I have my done at 16k and all in spec so I have not done any more valve inspection seen. Now she is over 60K and counting. Derstuka bike never have valve job done and his is over 100k miles as well.

 

Congrats Randy! Posts, and people's responses like this are why this site ROCKS.

I got my '08 with 0.1 miles on it in June 2011, since then I have 11,xxx miles on it and have dropped it once. I'm a little behind you, but it's something to aim for!

 

Nice to see that a 6th gen carrys on with the bulletproof VFR engine. I noticed you did not mention any cam chain maintenance, is this correct?

 

For those 19K miles, were those hard or easy miles? Mine are easy as most of my time is on the highway commuting to and from work. I'm also trying to gauge what others are doing. I don't think I've seen many people who have had the valves checked at 16K say that they were out of spec. At this point, I'm going to let it go to 32K then get them checked. When yours were out of spec, was there any audible cue that you could go by? Can you hear any valve train noise that is more prominent?

 

Sorry. Missed that one. Front and rear cam chain tensioners replaced at 109619 km.