I noticed a lot of posts in another thread regarding break-in so I thought I'd start a thread on it.
Personally, I take it easy on my bike the first 200 miles. I vary the RPMs while riding being careful not to stay around any one RPM range for too long. I also don't break 7,000 RPMs the first 200 miles and I'm easy on the brakes as well. I also do a lot of short trips to get plenty of heat cycles into th engine. Run to operating temp, cool down, run to operating temp, cool down, etc. After 200 miles I start to ride the bike a little harder, but never hit redline. I do this procedure for about 200 miles again varying RPMs quite a bit. For the third phase I ride the bike pretty hard, hitting the redline a few times, but never bouncing it off the rev limiter. That takes it up to 600 miles.
At 600 miles I change the oil and filter.
Lord Duckhunter has a good "How To" on breaking in bikes at:
http://www.rogueracing.org/breakin.htm
Personally, I take it easy on my bike the first 200 miles. I vary the RPMs while riding being careful not to stay around any one RPM range for too long. I also don't break 7,000 RPMs the first 200 miles and I'm easy on the brakes as well. I also do a lot of short trips to get plenty of heat cycles into th engine. Run to operating temp, cool down, run to operating temp, cool down, etc. After 200 miles I start to ride the bike a little harder, but never hit redline. I do this procedure for about 200 miles again varying RPMs quite a bit. For the third phase I ride the bike pretty hard, hitting the redline a few times, but never bouncing it off the rev limiter. That takes it up to 600 miles.
At 600 miles I change the oil and filter.
Lord Duckhunter has a good "How To" on breaking in bikes at:
http://www.rogueracing.org/breakin.htm
