I have a 2002 Fatboy and believe 2002 was the last year MoCo used Timken Bearings. JMO

 

I bought my '06 just two years ago with right at 12K miles.

People buy these things as an investment. They buy them, ride them several times, look at them, then park them.

I'd say 75K miles is starting to get in to high mileage territory for these bikes. It doesn't mean that you should avoid everything, but over that many miles, you need to start looking out for potential maintenance issues more so than normal.

I've got 22K miles and other than the fuel tank hose in the gas tank and other regular wear parts, I haven't had any failures. Of course, I've replaced rear wheel bearings, cam shoe tensioners, and some other odds and ends while upgrading.

 

IMO --Wrong..

At bike that's been taken care of and not beat to hard Should go an easy 100K +
I did't even think mine was broken good till she had 25k on her..
And now at 50k she just keeps running better every yr..

Only prob I've ever had since I got her new in 07 was the Pin hole in the gas line at 33k.., No probs ever with the engine..

 

I put 10,000+ miles a year on my bike. That bike barely had 1,000 miles a year on it. It was babied.

 

About the comment "suspiciously low miles" for that year bike. I have an 06 and I just turned 9500 miles on it. After these last mods the bike has 9500 on it, the main rebuild only has 7k on it with the top end, heads, cams and now the tensioner upgrade with the cam plate and oil pump only has about 900 miles on it. My SE 6 speed only has about about 6K on it. I just retired this summer so I plan on racking up the miles now that I can when I want.

I would say with proper and regular maintenance, baring any "freak" instances you should get many, many miles out of that bike and tons of fun. 1 suggestion I would make to you would be to get a service manual for your particular year and model for the bike you have. It can tell you how to do just about anything and has check lists in it, things you may not have ever thought of or considered. It will be some of the most well spent money you can do with and for your bike.

 

The Moco engineers were predicting an easy 100k on the Twinkies before they were even on the road; that being one of the goals. Mine has 47k at present with only cam chain tensioners at 30k and had to gut the fuel petcock, and I ride aggressively.
I have a guy on a shovel claiming 200k with original clutch at the end of it's adjustment. I say oil is cheaper than parts.
I wince when I see ink-black oil in a motor.