After changing the oil.....

I go in and have my dinner, I then go out and transfer the old oil from the
colection tray into a couple of milk cartons in order to take them to the
council disposal site, and looking in the bottom of the tray I see lots of
miniscule metal particles, is this normal after a bikes first oil change?
(550 miles on the clock)
Should I change the oil again soon?
Would you say it is now relativly safe to rev the bike a bit more ( I've
been carefull not to go over 6000 rpm)

TIA

 

Im sure you do

 

Yes, this is normal - running in is where you get the most wear, as the
components bed in with each other.

This is also why the first oil change is so important.

As for revving it, a good rule of thumb after the first oil change is to
keep it at 6k for another 100 miles, then add 1000 revs for every
hundred miles covered.

When you hit the redline, nail it harder. ;-)

 

Drew emerged from their own little world to say

Is there any reason why you did not get this job done "free"[1] by the
selling dealer as part of a first service? Or have Honda stopped doing this
on bikes now?

[1] labour free, pay for oil & filter

 

The bike is an R (1997) plate, the original owner bought it new, put 20
miles on the clock and then garaged it, I bought it this year from a local
(independant) dealer who had changed the oil when he bought it, I got a 30
day warranty with the bike but nothing else.

 

I got the whole lot done free from Trevor Goodalls.. parts included.

This could be because I inadvertently negotiated it as part of the purchase
deal, or it could be normal.

 

Only 30 days? That's a bit shit. My local dealer, who must know what I do to
bikes by now, still gave me 6 months warranty on a '98 bike...

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Spete

He probably figured you wouldn't live that long.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets
and Ducati Race Engineer.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

Not only that, but he obviously worked out that Spete would never be
able to find his way back to the premises.

 

I know I'm shit, but since I pass it every day on my way to work *and* it's
only about half a mile from where I live, I don't think that's the case.