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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: PICKLEKOOKEN on March 10, 2015, 12:41:51 PM
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Well Sunday afternoon on the way back from the MGNOC south in Colorado Springs I took the Norgy over 90,000 miles in 5 years 10 months - the 9 months I did down in Norman OK doing training. Not bad considering I'm not retired. I have a 40 -50 hr work week, and the fact that I can't ride in the mountains during the winter. I leave the flatland for the harley riders around here. Should've had it last year but you know the saying $h!+ happens, I'm shooting for September to hit the 100k mark.
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Good job Mike ;-T
Dusty
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I took the Norgy over 90,000 miles in 5 years 10 months - the 9 months......I'm shooting for September to hit the 100k mark.
;-T ;-T
Funny how that seems to be a lot of miles to some. There were a number of years long ago that I was putting 50,000 miles per year on my car. When I had the VW I was changing oil every three weeks. Of course gas was $ 0.27 per gallon also.
Now I only travel 15,000 miles per year but I'm trying to do 12,000 of those on the Griso.
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:+1
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Just think of the intergalactic mileages you'll be putting on the bikes once you DO retire! Shouldn't be too long now, really .... !
Lannis
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You ran up a goodly number of miles on your Norge. If you have time, could you add a very brief service history of your Norge over those 90,000 miles? My '08 1200 Sport has far fewer miles than your Norge (54,000), but she's been trouble-free to this point.
EDIT - BTW - good job on the miles!
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Given your location and the fact that you haven't retired, you have put a hell of a lot of miles on that bike. You should get some sort of award! ;-T
As another 1st gen Norge rider (my '09 has about 45K miles on the ODO), I agree with Bob that it would be informative to hear about your maintenance and repairs (if any).
Thanks,
Jon
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Good one Mike. We'll have to have Meers burger again. Or perhaps next time I am in Colorado when can have a bite?
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Good one Mike. We'll have to have Meers burger again. Or perhaps next time I am in Colorado when can have a bite?
Ahh , the famous Meers burger :food
Oh , and Bob , good to see you ;-T
Dusty
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Ahh , the famous Meers burger :food
Oh , and Bob , good to see you ;-T
Dusty
Indeed.... :+1
Mark
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;-T ;-T
Funny how that seems to be a lot of miles to some. There were a number of years long ago that I was putting 50,000 miles per year on my car.
but that was a car what fun is that?
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Good job! Just 10,000 more for the big 100K! I will have to defer that many miles to retirement years......
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You ran up a goodly number of miles on your Norge. If you have time, could you add a very brief service history of your Norge over those 90,000 miles? My '08 1200 Sport has far fewer miles than your Norge (54,000), but she's been trouble-free to this point.
EDIT - BTW - good job on the miles!
Well lets see after I got the bike fitted to me (don't get a seat made till you have a couple thousand miles on your butt and the seat) I had a valve adjuster screw snap on a trip with friends, and I lost a o2 sensor fail me last year heading to the national in Elkader. After replacing it my mileage jumped a couple. Had a problem programming a set of keys, it even had the factory reps confused. Too many keys too close to each other and confused the computer on the bike. everything else has been self inflected. :bike
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Sounds like the Norge has been a super ride over 90k miles.
Thanks for the update.
Bob
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:+1 :BEER:
Matt
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:beat_horse Yesterday I went up to our Moto Guzzi Dealer up in Ft Collins , Colorado. I needed to get some v/c gaskets, the Denver dealer doesn't stock them for sale. I did a bad thing I sat on a Stelvio, I want one but the budget said no.