omg Phil...where do you go on this bike to rack up so much milage? I read somewhere online that the NT is capable of 200,000 miles with ptoper Maint. But why are you doing this? & I read you was doing 76mph? Ur gonna kill urself Phil. Plz have a care sir. Ur not exactly a Spring Chicken! I never drive over 50mph even on the freeway. Damn!
Aaron, like I said in another thread, if you ever come to Colorado, and you come on Interstates, you'd better be prepared to ratchet it up a bit or you'll get run over. Seriously. We've got 75mph speed limits in most of the west and you won't pass anybody doing 75. Somewhere up around 78-82, you cut down on the number of folks passing you and hold your own plus a little bit. I like to have most of the traffic going my way doing it a tad slower than I am.
I use the NT for my primary transportation and ride something like 330-340 days a year...or more. The determining factor in whether I ride or not is the possibility of precipitation. If I'm going to be here in town and it's raining, I'll probably take the bike, but if it's forecast to continue all day long, I
might take the car. If I'm going on a trip, I'll usually take the bike. I need to go to towns where there are hospitals to visit my congregation from time to time, and if there's no snow on the road or forecast, I'll ride for those year round.
Last year, my long trips were a 4100 mile jaunt to Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ontario, which took me around the north shore of Lake Superiour. I also got in a 1000 mile ride in 19 hours on April 30-May 1. That was the first Iron Butt Association certified ride done on an NT in the western hemisphere.
This year, there was a 2500 mile trip to Texas for my 50th HS reunion, visits with some old friends, and meetings with two NT riders, Chuck500 from Houston and vc_slim from Austin. Greg Hall (vc_slim) and I rode a couple hundred miles in the Hill Country of Texas.
I'm pretty sure that the NT is easily capable of 2-300,000 miles, and the maintenance to do that should pretty much be routine.
You're right, I'm not a spring chicken, but even those I'm constantly creeping up on more advanced geezerhood, I'm not old yet!