My friend is looking at buying a 2001 RK with 12k miles. Bike is clean, one owner, and has been well mantained. Anything to look out for with this year?

 

Cam chain tensioners, inner cam bearings.

 

It is a good year for a RK. Pretty much what Bodea46 said above. See if they have been replaced or not.

 

At 12 thousand miles, who cares....mine went 70,000...butt..
It's only worth 10 Grand...not a penny more..
buy it

 

+1 on cam chain tensioners. They grenade without warning and can ruin the cam. If they have not been replaced (unlikely at 12K mi) it's a big bill to do it. Get a quote from your local shop/dealer and use that as you calculate a fair price. With that exception, it was a good year for RKs.

 

70k miles is definately the "exception" Wheel. The really can go at any time. Mine had 40K on them and they were ready to fail.

 

Thats true....butt.. for most, thats 5 years riding or so..
Funny, last week coming up at 50,000, i looked at my new wazoo SE hydraulic tensioners. Pretty much worn out. I replaced them...Think you can just replace plastic tensioner ???
Nope, buy the whole thing...Thats even funnier

 

Thanks for the info. I will pass it along.

 

With 12k I wouldn't worry about cam tensioners.

Agree with Wheel752, not a cent over $10k. My friend who passed away earlier this year, his 02 RKC with leather tour pack and 16k went for $9500. Of course that was an estate sale................estate offered it to his best friend though for $12.5k..........jerks

 

I bought a 2001 road king from a local shop. had it listed for $8900 i believe. added warranty, paid $10,300. bike had 11,140 mi. on it. had it since Nov.2011 and now has 20,700 mi. took off stock exhaust to install a samson powerflow 111 2 to 1 exhaust, so i checked the cam chain tension shoes at 20,400 mi. no wear at all. looks brand new. been running mobil1 20-50 mostly with a little lucas heavy oil stabilizer. seems to be doing good. last oil change i used 20-50- valvoline mc oil with lucas.