cheap for offroad
Being of an age now when I first started riding bikes they were for everyday use, holidays, socialising, etc so would have much higher mileages than most bikes today. There was no PCP either.
Halfpint has been to Morocco, and back on his 310, hi Halfpint, and has used it for greenlaning around Essex, Suffolk, as well as entering the baja at Sweet Lamb.There were only two 310's at sweet lamb in June ,and mine was the other one.Plenty of people on enduro bikes even though it was for rally or adventure bikes.Nobody on a 390KTM.Halfpint is a good rider, and came first in our group.My bike is used exclusively for off road riding, and when I bought it from Lings it had 1725 miles on the clock .That was 26 Feb 2021. The mileage now is 3543.I do not use it for road riding apart from getting to, and from the byways.
To think that a low mileage bike has been clocked is wrong for the most part. Of course there will be people who still do that, but few ,and far between.As an example a member of our group bought a 1250gs, and polishes it ,and may go on an adventure to a local tea vender ,and cover at least 60 miles twice a month. Another member came out with us on his 1250 GSadventure, and did very well to get around, and only break the gear lever and rear brake lever. The first rider would not dream of using the bike on any lanes.When he sells the bike it will be immaculate, and have very low mileage.
Today most bikes are toys that only come out on rare occasions.
I bought my bike because it had a low seat height, was cheap, and Rally Raid sold kit to improve the survivability of the bike off road.
If people are buying these ,and then moving on to something bigger, better then that makes us all winners as they will buy, and sell the next one at some point.