Long time lurker, first time poster here.
I have a 2011 C14 (silver) that I bought from the original owner who was an active COG member. Spot on maintenance and care, but not exactly a garage queen, but the previous owner was absolutely meticulous. He just decided that he had too many toys and enjoyed riding his HD more.
My previous bike was a 1996 Kawasaki GPz1100, which I bought from the original owner with less than 5K miles on the clock. Over my 20 years of owning it, I rolled the clock over twice, averaging over 12,000 miles or so, which in hindsight was mostly on my daily 75 mile commute. I sold it last year with about 220K miles on it.
I loved that bike. I did all of my own maintenance. I lost track of the number of tires I went through. I do remember that I went through four sets of chains and sprockets, but I was religious about oiling the chain, and even got a manual chain oiler for it. I replaced all of the bearings once, including all suspension bearings, had the rear shock rebuilt twice, went through three sets of fork seals, and rebuilt the carbs three times, maybe four. I only had to adjust the valve clearance twice on a few valves, every time I checked them they were nearly always in spec.
I'm a mechanical engineer, working for a government contractor.
