26000 miles on a superduke?

There's two things here;

1) Bike condition at high mileage
2) Bike value at high mileage.


Number 1) is easy; if the bike has been serviced properly, cared for and looked after there will be no problem with it at all. Not at all. Modern engines are awesome, and the rest on a bike like this is pretty easy and cheap to service.

Number 2) on the other hand is a bit trickier. When I sold my 2001 GSX-R1000 in 2003 with 24,000 miles on it, it was difficult. The bike was in really good condition, it even had original chain and sprockets on it. Either way, what I was told was something along the lines of. When someone comes to buy a GSX-R1000 of my vintage, there will be a row of them in the showroom. Mine will be priced lowest because it's got most mileage on it. However, there's 8 of them "in front" of my bike with lower mileage, some with mileage so low as 4,000 miles, average around 6,000 miles. The price for these bikes, will be average, with average miles. However, the seller will need (in this example) 8 other buyers before my bike will be sold. Simply because all other bikes are better.
This means that there will probably never be a situation where my bike will be sold because there will always be a nicer GSX-R in the shop. This results in a simple fact; Supply is waaay greater than the demand for my "high" mileage bike. In other words, my bike was close to worthless.

In the end I think I sold my bike for ca £2,000 less than most average prices (and that's a big drop for such a bike).

This story translates to your find in one way: It's overpriced for what it is. Not for what condition it is. You can simply add £100 - £200 and get a bike with less than 10,000 miles on it.... ergo; HAGGLE!

Haggle indeed!!!

But, GSXRs are freaking everywhere so yes you would find it tough to shift it from a dealer BUT the SD is a much rarer bike.....a positive effect on value....but only to a point.

Haver look rownd Dude that seems a lot for the year ,with FHC theres 06and 07 bikes out there for a bit more with less milige on them .

Only got around £4200 to spend on a bike....was looking at the 690 duke as a possibility......really fancy a superduke tho as they are the daddy.
the standard one on the autotrader Freestyler kindly linked me to for £4250 hasnt answered any phone calls, to landline and mobile, i even txt and e-mailed him and still nothing, probs a scammer?

Glad you like it!

What sort of van is that? Must be very small. Fits in my car.

Did you take the front wheel off yours?....it probs would have went in at a push but didn't want to travel 300 mile there to find it didn't.

Just got me new plate and gave it a clean.









Instead of resurrecting an old thread i will ask this question here....where are the plugs located that de-restrict 2nd and 3rd gear (the ones where you cut the 2 wires) on the bike?

Those stickers are a bugger too get off....took me ages to get rid of the little ones on the mirrors....i took vinyl ones off the main side panels with kettle of hot water.....but these other ones are different....they wont budge....a tiny bit comes off at a time....gonna take hours.....i have no nails?

Nice one!

My bike goes in the car with only the mirrors removed.

Gear selector thingy is basically this:

Search and you shall find.

So then can i just put in place the sas connects and leave in the sas valve?

Nice , but it shoudent pop and bang with the map two instald, AKA, the Akra map , check it out at your stealers to see iff its been loaded .

I dont think it is the full system....looks like the end cans only.
How much is it for a akra map?

Well first ride on me bike today....felt really apprehensive after making the big mistake buying the R1 recently.

Thought if i don't like the superduke that's it with bikes.......so was a big day for me to say the least....butterflies in my stomach as i was putting my leathers on.

I pulled away from my drive and instantly it felt right....such a natural riding position, into 2nd gear and opened it up a tad which brung me to a junction at the end of my estate.
Got out onto the open road which leads to my first left hand corner and i just rolled on the power and leaned it over.....OMFG......this is easily the best feeling i have had on a bike for years.
Took it onto a dual carriageway to see how much power it has and it didn't disappoint.

Was a bit twitchy at 100 mph which made me back off (maybe tyres which are michelin power race) needs a damper methinks?
Other thing was the popping and banging got on my tits after a while, hopefully these sas block offs will cure it when i get them on.

Overall verdict is 10/10.

That's me hooked now.....no going back.