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After passing my mod2 on Tuesday, I picked this up last night. My only regret is that I didnt get my license sooner! :)

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Very pleased - look what got delivered to the office today :D

Aprilia Shiver 750. I took her out for a few miles after work today - very wet unfortunately and didn't fancy that much on brand new tyres. I'm limited to around 6,000 rpm whilst running in, but it feels good and sounds fantastic. Incredibly nimble after the ER-6F.


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The_Abyss said:
I'm limited to around 6,000 rpm whilst running in, but it feels good and sounds fantastic. Incredibly nimble after the ER-6F
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Lovely bike, and great photos :)

A little off topic... so apologies (maybe a new thread is needed), but what's the brief opinion of the bit in bold?

When I bought my R1 new, I was hold "Half revs and plenty of gear changes for the first 1,000 miles. Then slowly build to higher revs after that", or words to that affect - this lasted for about 300 miles before I started to open the bike up a lot more; not pinning it at red line all the time, just sniffing near there on occasion.

I have quite a few friends who are performance car mechanics by trade, and they were all of the same opinion when it came to the cars they work on - you can always tell the difference between ones that were run-in 'normally' and those run-in hard. They said that the ones that hadn't stuck to the rev limit imposed often performed a little better (not sure if a dyno would back that up), used less oil (I guess that could be questionable) and felt more responsive (a matter of opinion I guess).

So, yeah, anyone else run their bikes (or cars) in the way that a dealer advises, or do you go for your own brand? The S1000RR owners can't comments, as you're electronically limited :p
 
Scort said:
I have quite a few friends who are performance car mechanics by trade, and they were all of the same opinion when it came to the cars they work on - you can always tell the difference between ones that were run-in 'normally' and those run-in hard. They said that the ones that hadn't stuck to the rev limit imposed often performed a little better (not sure if a dyno would back that up), used less oil (I guess that could be questionable) and felt more responsive (a matter of opinion I guess).
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They might perform a little better, but they'll also have a significantly shorter life.
 
I was told by the dealer where I bought my GSXR1000 (old school TT racer) to just ride it normally and not to worry about running it in in any particular way.

Personally I think the advice is just cautious - lets face it you're never going to get an instruction manual telling you to redline it everywhere!
 
The running in is based on old technology when things were not as precise as they are today. Basically allow it to warm up, dont labour the engine and dont cane it massively for the first few hundred miles.

Have a read of: http://www.mototuneusa.com/break_in_secrets.htm

I also read an article in a bike magazine a few years ago where a top Honda engineer basically recommended using 80% of the rev range from the get go.
 
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