running in....

Hello lovely ausmotians

I may (god willing) be collecting my spiffy new GS500F very soon (end of
this week if all goes well!)

I am getting so excited that I am almost ready to scream and explode into
about a bazillion multicoloured shimmering fragments..... but I know I have
to be a bit circumspect with a brand new bike.

Once in my life I have owned a brand new car, and there were all sorts of
rules for the first 1000kms. I'm sure it's the same for bikes - can you
gurus tell me what those rules are? (try not to disagree, just for once, hee
hee, I'm easily confused....)

betty (roll on friday!)

 

Ride it.

Not red line and not idle.

If you need some help I think I can put a few kays on it for you.

Arvo session the the Pig?


Hammo

 

Do what your handbook says Betty.
No. 1 rule is DO NOT LABOUR IT! (I.e. let it free-rev and don't grunt off
the mark or lug up hills)
Just change gears a lot and don't sit on any one speed (or one RPM) for any
length of time.

Enjoy yourself; You are about to achieve orgiastic levels of buyer-joy!

 

Congrats on the new bike, as for running in a new bike the best advice I can
give is to go to this site http://www.mototuneusa.com/break_in_secrets.htm
and change the oil often. I don't think there will be too many disagreements
on either of these snippets but if there is isn't that one of the reasons
why we are here.
Best of luck with the new toy, first trip Cotter Dam?

Dain (roll on Friday for me too)

 

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http://www.mototuneusa.com/break_in_secrets.htm

 

You're too kind Hammo!

Yep, arvo at the Pig sounds good. Let me know when you have a spare hour.

betty

 

Rule 1: Ride it - often
Rule 2: Don't drop it.

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Cheers

PeterC [aka MildThing]
Most scientific discoveries are heralded by a tentative "Hmmm. That's funny..." instead of a jubilant "Eureka!"

'81 Yamaha Virago (XV) 750H (work in progress)
'01 Yamaha FJR1300

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When I bought my new suzi, the manual laid out some quite specific RPM
ranges for the 1st XXX Kms, then another range for the next XXX (from
memory, 800Kms and 1600Kms respectively). The actual RPM ranges will
not be the same, so I won't bother quoting them.

Other than pointing to the relevant page in the manual, my dealer's
only other advice was "If you want it to go hard, run it in hard". I
didn't go silly, but I didn't completely baby it either.

The advice given earlier in this thread was the best. Let it warm up,
don't labour the engine, and don't just sit on freeway speeds (vary the
RPMs). I was commuting through heavy traffic at the time, which I
figure gives a good range of speeds / revs, and allows the engine to
warm/cool.

Also, if you haven't ridden on brand new rubber before, beware!

 

All good advice above. If you're really worried get it run in on the dyno.
They do the hard initial work for you, and essentially run it in via the
mototune method. Drop the oil and change the filter in the first 100 kays,
and at 500 as well if you can. You'll be amazed at the amount of shit that's
already in it.

By the time you get to 1000km it's ground into a fine paste and spread
throughout your engine. Most of the time the oil filter works in bypass
mode, so isn't actually filtering much at all. And no matter how many times
people say "but it filters down to 3 microns!" or some shit, they should
take a look at the oil out of a new motor. You can clearly see the crap
floating about (looks like metallic paint, siwrly etc, looks good actually).

Enjoy!

 

Yeps...

1. Follow what the manual says about running in.

2. Stay the **** away from Ovlovs.

3. Beer woman, and hurry up!

Johno

oh... enjoy the new toy

 

and then SMS everyone

Nev..
'04 CBR1100XX

 

<raspberry noise> ;-)
betty

 

yes dear <snigger>

betty

 

oh...FFS betty, I've told you... I do not drink that XXXX shit - give
it to Clem


Johno

now fetch a real beer!

oh.... love the uniform tho

 

It's an odd thing, I'll email you!

Cheers

Hammo

 

Nah. Can't work it out, help please.

Hammo

 

You want work addy or home?

Cheers

Hammo

 

Email Betty and I'll as her to email you...

Ta....