High Mileage ?

[Sandycheeks]

Just wondering what peoples thoughts are on mileage before buying.

Theoretically, I would consider buying a 1L car with 70-80,000 mls but when it comes to bikes I always seem to sniff at mileage above 20,000.

Say I am looking at a 800cc bike, I can pretty much guarantee that unless Danny Pedrosa was the previous owner, the bike would have hardly ever been ridden near is limit and should still be pretty sweet even with a 80,000 on the clock, whereas a 1L car would amost certainly of been driven at near its limit for a lot of the time.

Basically I am wondering if I am limiting my search for a new bike by my disregard of bikes with mileage above 20,000.
I know service history can be a real plus.

If you had 2 to 3 grand to spend on a bike what would you be looking at.

 

[Sandycheeks]

Servicing will be done by me, I'm pretty handy with the spanners...not through choice but necessity when younger to keep bikes/cars on the road that should have been scrapped 10 years before I bought them.

 

[Sandycheeks]

I'm looking for the sweet-spot, I don't want to lose a lot of money on it when I come to sell it. If I buy a bike for £1500 with 50,000 miles on it and keep it for a year I would imagine next year with another 3-5000 miles the miles wont be that big of a difference as it's already high as far as bikes go but would be even harder to sell.
If I buy a 5 year old bike for £3000 with 20,000 miles on it next year it would probably only be worth around £2000.
If I buy new I would lose a chunk due to depreciation so a £6000 bike sees a loss of about £2000-£3000, based on the fact I would surely keep it for 3 years until the warranty runs out etc...

 

[Sandycheeks]

at 6'3'' I'm not sure I fancy the ride tbh.
I ideally want a sports tourer or adventure bike.

 

[Sandycheeks]

Because I only passed my test last July I'm thinking I would be better off to just get a 600 or 650 as a bit of a stop gap until I can get a big bike.
Sure a 650 would have enough grunt but I would rather have something bigger.
I want something that will sell pretty easily in 12 months and high miler just don't sell very well.
I am seriously considering selling my Trials bike and my GS500 and getting something pretty new.
I like the look of the GSX650 F...I can get a 2009 with less than 10,000 miles for £3,499 and I'm sure that would be worlds apart from the GS500...just not sure.