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Did he make it? Dave Zien, a Wisconsin rider was scheduled to pull into Hal's Harley-Davidson in suburban Milwaukee, on April 4th with his odo rolling over a million miles- as far as anyone knows, he would be the first guy to ride a million miles on one Harley-Davidson motorycycle.
I've been looking around the net and finding lots of articles on this (including some doubting the truth of it), but none so far about him actually accomplishing the feat.
His bike is a 1991 FXRT, Evolution-powered (of course), and, I'm happy to say, very similar to my own FXRS. Except I'm a pussy on mileage compared to him.
Any Milwaukee forum members around who were at the dealership for the arrival?
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would love to see all the stuff he has had to fix over the years. i got an evo and i'm never plannin on gettin rid of it, but maybe my grandsons grandson can hit the 1 mill mark cause i sure as hell aint i'm shootin for 100+ k in my liftime.
I wonder what an HD with 1MM mile on it is worth what with all those low mileage garage queens out there. BTW in case you were wondering. That would be about 274 miles per day, every day, for 10 years.
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Must have a lot of free time on his hands as thats an average of nearly a 160 miles every single day for the last 18 years. And I am assuming that he didn't ride every single day of that time.
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Must have a lot of free time on his hands as thats an average of nearly a 160 miles every single day for the last 18 years. And I am assuming that he didn't ride every single day of that time.
Or 83,000 miles a year. That's double the miles I ride, and I ride every single day of the year!
I've been averaging about 20,000 miles a year (not on the same bike) since around 1970, so that comes out to a little over 750,000 miles, and I thought that was a lot of miles on Harley's....
I don't doubt in the least that a person could hit the million mile mark over a 18 year period, especially if they are free to ride whenever and do a lot of long range cross country cruising....
But 1 million miles on a single EVO is quite an accomplishment, no matter who you are.... I know plenty of EVO owners that have gone over the 100,000 mile mark, but that's a far cry from 1,000,000 miles....
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One million miles on one Harley?
i'm shootin for 100+ k in my liftime.
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