| Author | Message | ||
     Kevinjgray88 |
as long as i am below redline i should be able to be at any rpm i want right. burn away i am sure its a moron question | ||
| Thurstonbuell |
You'll be fine , avoid running at the same rpms for long periods like cruisin the freeway , just ride it and enjoy | ||
| Kevinjgray88 |
what do you suggest for cruising on the highway then rev it up every now and then | ||
| Froggy |
I suggest you avoid the highway as it makes it harder to break in the bike safely. If you are stuck slabbing, do lots of speed changes, like 40-70mph, lots of RPM variation, ride in low gears if you have to. Taking the side roads will make this easier as you will have stopsigns and other various obstacles to vary your driving. | ||
| Thurstonbuell |
Just change gears and rev range around if you have to , move them piston rings around . You don't need to be crazy about it , mix it up . I'm not sayin you should beat the snot out of her all the time either Imo that is | ||
| Kevinjgray88 |
stayin off the highway till 620 miles is going to be super tuff | ||
| Thefleshrocket |
Or break your bike in like this: www.mototuneusa.com/break_in_secrets.htm . The strongest argument for the "rode it like ya stole it" break-in method is all of the Buell demo bikes. Those bikes got taken out of their crates, given a brief shakedown, and then sent out onto the racetrack, repeatedly run to redline, and how many of them have actually had engine problems? Considering that quite a few of them were sold and I think we've seen one person recently complain about a blown motor on BWB (of which there was no suggestion that the blown motor was due to a hard break-in), I think it's safe to say that those motors pretty much fared fine being broken in hard. Of course, you won't want to tell your dealer that you didn't follow the manual's break-in procedure as it could theoretically void your warranty. But since the chances of you having engine problems are probably no higher by using the Motoman method, you shouldn't ever have to have that conversation anyway. (Message edited by thefleshrocket on March 23, 2010) | ||
| Froggy |
How is it going to be tough? I did 400 miles on a Blast last Saturday with no interstates and only some brief time on smaller highways. | ||
| Bob_saggot |
All I can say is when my uncle was young. Like in the 70's? He bought a new bike and drove it home wide open because someone told him that's how to break a new bike in lol. About a week later he went back to the dealership and traded it, told the dealer he wanted a "different color". (Message edited by Bob_Saggot on March 24, 2010) | ||
| Jules |
Fabrication techniques (and materials) have changed quite a bit in the 30 or 40 years since the seventies  Cr@p... as I typed that I realised that makes me old!! | ||
| Dosmie |
Seems that Higbee's bike ran just fine for the 09 Daytona 200 on a new motor off of the showroom floor. No break in at all for qualifying. Or was it rebuilt with racing components? |
