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Photo by George Guille, It's going to be a long 300km... Bolivian Amazon

I haven't been everywhere...
but it's on my list!


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It's going to be a long 300km...
Bolivian Amazon



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Old 18 Oct 2007
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highest mileage

Hello just to ask about the bike whit more km (ml) do you know?
just curiosity.
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My own bike, a 1985 bmw R80RT has 175,000 km on the clock. I have heard of many with much greater mileages than this,
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My 2001 BMW R1150GS has 100,000 miles on it now.
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Mine has 193000 km on the clck (1996 R80GS - 1996).

I have seen a K100 wich have passed 1.000.000 km but I'm sure it's not a record of any type.
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My 92 R100R has 240,000 miles (384,000 km) on it
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Anyone else noticing a similar theme here....?
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Anyone else noticing a similar theme here....?
Yep, how big is that fish that got away???????????
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I'm noticing it too. The highest I've seen: 650,000+km R75.
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Anyone else noticing a similar theme here....?
So just to upset the applecart a tinsey bit although it's not particularly high miles but it saves the thread being for BMW's only - my Yamaha TRX had 85,000 miles (136,000 km) on it when I sold it.
Of course I wish I'd kept it now.
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really small!!


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Havent had any high mileage bikes as of yet but heard alot of storys on the deauville forum about couriurs in london have deauvilles with 300k miles +.
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High mileage

I own a BMW that was a police bike and when I bought it ,the bike was already 150000KM, after riding across Europe and Africa the baby is now 245000.I hope to that much with my 1200 GS did I mention that the bike never let me down on the side of the road, could that be because of that type of mileage that BMW have a fairly great reputation.My KLR had 80000 whenI sold it with almost a perfect record of reliablity ,pretty good for low price bike .
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