best said..

You may have heard old timers say "Break it in fast, and it'll be fast. Break it in slow and it'll always be slow." There is enough truth in this to make it memorable."

 

Good for you Hoplite[8D] You wont need luck with this one. Good luck anyway.

Maybe a mod will make a Sticky if there already isnt one.

 

Well, just brought her home, holy crap does that thing handle nice, turns WAY better than my old 900 and 929. I hope I did the right thing because I ramped her up to 10-11,000 a few times, the rest I was limited to running up to 7 or 8,000. I did a ton of engine braking, hardly touched the brakes at all.

One more question, how imortant is it to run it through the gears? I was pretty much limited to first and second (mostly 2nd), with occassional uses in 3rd. I only went maybe 8 to 10 miles so far so I have plenty of time to get through the gears more.

Thanks.

 

Not important to run through the gears.
The object is to maintain a full load without revving the crap out of it.
So...going through the gears might be a necessity depending on where youre riding.

Best to find the back roads asap where you dont have to worry about using the breaks so much.
Be religious for the first couple hundred miles and after that, not so much.

 

By full load I assume you mean full throttle and keeping torque up? That was actually going to be another question, whether to slowly go to high revs, or twist the throttle. It seems from what I have read that I should twist throttle to full.

And by "religious" I take it you mean keep the revs going up and down, not holding the revs high until a couple hundred miles?

I plan to change oil and filter at 50 miles.

Thanks again for the reply.

 

Full load, as in, twist that throttle.
You dont have to redline. I tried to stay out of the higher rpms.
Just keep it under a load when ever you can.
No steady throttle.

By religious, I mean, sticking to the plan to break her in.
Obviously, there will be many times when you cant be at full throttle.
You'd be driving like an idiot (on a city street in traffic) if you tried to.
Do what you must, just dont baby it.

 

Thanks again, much appreciated.

You should have seen me riding, flying up on people's asses, then drifting back 10 car lengths, only to repeat this 40 times over . People were probably annoyed as hell, or thought I was some king of idiot. But as you said, you do what you got to do.

 

just one question, the general opinion seems to be to run it in hard and use mineral oil..
I am running in my new cbr 1000rr at the moment, i have 400 miles on the clock and i am driving it fairly hard..
The only thing is, I changed the oil at 300 miles and I used Rock semi-synthetic oil...
Is this in any way bad for the engine, or is it just that it will take longer to achieve a break in as opposed to using mineral oil???

 

I ALSO GOT MINE ON FRIDAY AND HAVE KEPT IT LIMITED TO ABOUT 5000 RPM UNTIL I HIT 200 MILES NOW I'LL GRADUALLY INCREASE THE RPMS IN 500 INCRAMINTS UP TO THE 300 MILE MARK. THEN START RIDING ALITTE HARDER ON EACH OUTING UNTIL 600 MILE SERVICE. AT THAT POINT IT WILL BE RIDEN TO MY STYLE OF RIDING.
CAN ANYONE ANSWER THIS QUESTION. SINCE I PICKED UP THE BIKE 230 MILES AGO, ON EASY STARTS THE BIKE FEELS ALITTLE SLUGISH TILL 3000 RPM, AND AT TIMES SOUNDS LIKE IT'S KNOCKING AND PINGING BEFORE IT REACHES 3000 R'S.

 

coorcullen, synthetic or semi synthetic certainly isn't "bad" for the engine, it will simply delay break-in and may prevent things from setting as well. In that sense it may not be as good as mineral oil for your engine. The recent demands in the automotive and bike industry with higher revving engines means more/stronger anti-wear additives, so it prevents/delays the old-style break in. I will switch to synthetic, but not until 1,500 to 3,000 miles.

Good luck.