Fikkin' running in...aaaarghh!

I fekkin' hate this running in malarky. I've now done 270 miles on my 2
week old SV and I'm at the verge of giving 'er a good seeing to. I was
groovin' down a well known back road today and kind of forgot about the bike
being sorta new. Every time I got a chance to check the revs they were 7-8k
(eek!). She's begging for it honest! Am I gonna **** the engine? (owners
manual says 5.5k for first 600 miles -pah!)

 

John Banks wrote

The bike that bad is it?

 

Let it warm up properly, vary the revs as much as possible, and don't
use more than about 75% throttle for the first few hundred miles..

That's my approach to running in... 19K on the bike so far and it's
running wonderfully.

 

Two weeks to do 270 miles!

Strewth, when I bought my last CBR, I picked it up on the Monday
afternoon, went out every evening to clock up the required 600 miles
and had it back at the dealers by 9am on the Saturday morning for its
first service.

--
Elly - a tired Pixie
ZX9R-E1 - <Giggles>
Spike - FZ400 - It's dead Jim!
MRO#32 ibW#25 BoTAFOT#46 BoTAFOF #46 GP#1 UKRMRM#00 TWA#3
http://www.garagepixies.co.uk
elly at garagepixies dot co dot uk

 

John Banks emerged from their own little world to say

An opinion from our Eastern European desk:
http://ukrm.net/clues/bikestuff/champrunningin.html

 

http://ukrm.net/clues/bikestuff/champrunningin.html

 

No, the bike's that GOOD! I'm having too much fun and I desperately want to
give it the beans. I am going faster on this than I did on my ZX-9 and
thats after a 2 year break AND on a spankin new bike. It's sooooo easy to
ride fast. I know the ZX9 is a faster bike top speed, !/4 mile and all but
the SV is EASY for an idiot (like me) to ride fast. I nearly got my knee
down on it today - I thought I was riding my minimoto (Polini 911r).

 

John Banks wrote

How would you know? At an average of around 18 and a bit miles a day
you are putting in a lot less practice than your average Italian riding
god and it is his actual job to ride faster.

 

Uh yeah, ok. Your point?

 

You're right. No more shenanegins for me until 1000 miles.

 

The weather's been poor here. I don't do the rain thing.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, John Banks amazed us all with this pearl of
wisdom:

No offence, like, but I ran my 50 in for 500 miles in less than a week.

 

Just get the first service out of the way.

 

No offence taken. Simple arithmetic, given that a 50 only does 30 mph means
that you averaged about 2.4 hours on your 50 each day for a week. You're
way more dedicated than I.

Cheers

 

Well stop fucking bleating about it then. You have made your choice:
to buy a new bike and not to ride it. Either correct the situation or
shut the **** up - your call.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, John Banks amazed us all with this pearl of
wisdom:

It was a lot longer than that. Running that thing is was at 20mph!

Dedicated isn't a word I'd use to describe myself. I was 16, it was the
only (apart from a bicycle) transport I had and the novelty factor was
high. I bought in October 1995 and remember going out in the freezing
mornings just so I could ride the thing.

 

He could give it to me for a week, I'd get it run in.

--
Lesley
CBR600FW
SBS#11 (with oak-leaf cluster)
BOTAFOT#101A UKRMHRC#12
BONY#54P BOB#18
Real burds don't take hormones, they rage naturally

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Whinging Courier amazed us all with this pearl of
wisdom:

I should point out that the 1995 is in fact a typo. Much as a ten year
reduction in my age could do (or not), I should point out that the said
bike in my sixteenth year was actually purchased in 1985.

 

On current form, I reckon I could run it out in less than a week.

 

John Banks wrote

Pip made it for me.