How many Miles?

[agernt]

New GS550L owner who would like to know how many miles to expect from the motorcycle. Mine has 27,000, but is otherwise in good shap.

[hampshirehog]

Hi and welcome to the nuthouse.

550s are as tough as old boots. If you service it regularly and properly it'll roll round the clock - probably one of the most unbreakable Jap 4s ever made. Cliff will be along soon for the official welcome. Have a look at his mega greeting - it will show you all you have to do to keep your bike in fine fettle.

[kerrfunk]

Though I don't have eye-witness verification, I would expect your 550L would easily go 100,000 and more, without too much* maintenance


*whatever that means

[tkent02]

Mine needed some new gaskets at around 130,000 or so.
They are among the most overbuilt and understressed engines in the history of engine making.

[TheCafeKid]

Mine needed some new gaskets at around 130,000 or so.

Amen... Just pulled down a Gs1100GK motor because the base gasket started to weep a bit (would have left it, but, it needed cleaning anyway) at just a tick over 140,000. Never had the head off before that...

[bwringer]

Jimcor was well over 100,000 miles on his 550L last time I heard...

[hampshirehog]

Mine needed some new gaskets at around 130,000 or so.
They are among the most overbuilt and understressed engines in the history of engine making.

Evidenced by has anyone ever sold a GS550 crank? You can't give them away.

[Flyboy]

+1 on what everyone said here, many moons ago, when Granny was still a pin up, I used to race a GS550 motor in the back of my Formula M single seater, in 3 seasons of racing I pulled the valve cover once, when it spat out a shim, straight through the valve cover, got it home, re-shimmed the valves, welded up the hole in the valve cover and was good to go.
But then I did spin that little motor to some seriously ridiculous RPM, they are built like brick sh*t houses.
After the nuclear fallout the only thing left on this planet will be cockroaches and GS's.

[Nessism]

After the nuclear fallout the only thing left on this planet will be cockroaches and GS's.

Can I put this quote in my signature?

[Turtleface]

After the nuclear fallout the only thing left on this planet will be cockroaches and GS's.

Cockroaches are tropical critters. They'd die off massively after all the air conditioning stopped working. So, after the nuclear fallout, the only thing left on this planet would be just GS's.

[psyguy]

bear in mind that people are not saying that once you reach 100k miles or so that that's it. it only means you may need a set of new rings or possibly an overbore. then you're as good as new