This is a 1986 Kawasaki Concours that I bought new in 1987 for $4995.  On June 25, 2001, on a trip to Minneapolis MN, it rolled over to 100,000 miles on a scenic curving road in Wisconsin.  It seemed a fitting place.  The day after it hit 100,000 the speedometer cable broke.

In it's life, I've ridden the bike to Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, and maybe some states I've forgotten about.  It's carried me from 15 degree weather in January in Illinois to 108 degree weather in Nebraska, and everything in between (including a little snow).

At an average of 50 mph, I figure I've been in the saddle of this bike for about 2000 hours.  If riding was a full time job, I've driven this bike the equivalent of 40 hours a week for a whole year (with 2 weeks off for vacation).  I've averaged about 7000 miles a year on the bike for it's life, which works out to 588 miles a month, or close to 20 miles a day.

Not counting gas and tires, the bike has cost me about a nickel a mile.  It consistently gets 40 mpg.

The bike's had about 30 oil changes (just less than 30 gallons of oil), 12 back tires, and 8 front tires. It's used about 2500 gallons of gas and it's on the 4th cam chain tensioner.

Kawasaki made a great bike.  As testament, the Concours remains in their line up today virtually unchanged from the '86 model.

Current mileage on the bike is:
100,641
as of 6/27/01

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