Do you think it is because of the mileage?
I don't recall what the life expectancy of that very expensive CVT system is.....after which so many owners sell it off rather than attempting to pay for replacement.
Stig
I do think it's due to miles. But not because of the CVT maintenance. I think it's due to the stigma so many in the USA have against scooters in general, and there being no adjustment to bigger scooters for how many miles is typical for them. Not that smaller scooter cannot go a great many miles.
And it could also be the season... IOW the end of the riding season for most in the northern tier of states in the USA. I've always felt that Fall is the worst time to try and sell a motorcycle of any style and spring is the best time to sell. But fall is often the best time to buy a motorcycle of any style, especially from a dealer since they want to clear their inventory and not have to store it over Winter while paying insurance on just having it sit in storage. Aside from having it take up space they'd rather use for winter equipment. And so the dilemma. It's just that my wife insists I sell mine first before I can buy another. Even though in the past I would buy in the fall and sell the next spring. So I'm kind of stuck. I either take a bit of loss on selling or pay more next season to buy. But to make it even more complicated if I wait to sell next season my bike would be another year older bringing in a lower price anyway and new bikes will cost more so the spread is even bigger.
I remember thinking a few decades ago that scooters are cheaper and just don't do as many miles as other "proper" motorcycles can do before they wear out. I've since learned that simply is not true at all. I currently have 26720 miles on mine and I think several who might be interested are turned off by that. But when thinking about it in reality that simply works out to right around 3200 miles per year which is really really LOW IMO. If an owner only puts on less than 1000 miles per year I don't consider them a rider but just an *owner*. But that's what many looking for a scooter, especially for the first time, think they want. That's why I've adjusted my pricing to account for that. It's at the very low end of the range. I consider any super scooter the same as any other touring motorcycle as to how many miles can be expected per year.
AS to that CVT maintenance you speak of... Suzuki has been documented as saying the belt in the CVT is a lifetime belt, as in life of the scooter. When pressed how many miles they are thinking someone squeezed out of them that 70,000-75,000 miles is what they really had in mind. Any issues that happen before that are the same as any major issues that happen on any other vehicle before you would expect and the chances of it are very low. Like less than 0.5% for the entire run (all years together) of the Burgman 650. Or about the same as the rate of *new* cancer cases in the USA for ONE year.
