How to break a engine in

[Cleverlie]

Well i thought i'd throw this out there for those getting new bikes, not sure on how well it works but it could be useful to people.

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

[MadHatter]

My patented Hatter-thrash TM method works well.
Ride it like you stole it for the first 500km. Pop a wheelie upon leaving the dealership. Don't sit on the highway, vary the RPM's (track or putty road is a good place for this). That way, your bike doesn't fool itself into thinking it will have an easy life :p
Change the oil right away and then continue to ride it like you will for the rest of it's natural life until the first service.

Think what you will but this method produces strong bikes that have no trouble lasting until you ride them into a tree.
The worst thing for a new engine is for it to sit on the same rpm for a long period of time or overheat.

[kellz]

thats a good read cleverlie..

hope one day i get to use the info :D

[Poyda]

My patented Hatter-thrash TM method works well.
Ride it like you stole it for the first 500km. Pop a wheelie upon leaving the dealership. Don't sit on the highway, vary the RPM's (track or putty road is a good place for this). That way, your bike doesn't fool itself into thinking it will have an easy life :p
Change the oil right away and then continue to ride it like you will for the rest of it's natural life until the first service.

Think what you will but this method produces strong bikes that have no trouble lasting until you ride them into a tree.
The worst thing for a new engine is for it to sit on the same rpm for a long period of time or overheat.

Yup, ride hard from day one. I still dont understand in this day and age why they say ride like a nanna until the 1st service. Car companys sure dont do it. Surely the japs especially have the technology to make a an enginge that is strong out of the box. Breaking in engines has been a joke since, well, forever

[MATTK6]

within the first 100km's of my bike life, it was at the track copping an absolute thrashing, and the engine and gearbox are still going strong, and before it saw the track it saw the old road quite oftern and just genral riding which would be classed as hard riding, and it loves it:ayyy:

[fullhouse]

go as hard as u can, at all times

[Kat00]

This topic makes me laugh.

Have a look at what the book says about shifting gears.
1st -2nd 15kph
2nd-3rd 25kph
3rd-4th 35kph
4th-5th 50kph
5th-6th 60kph

No one pays attention to recommended shift points....... Well unless your a ZX10 rider :lmao:
And yet some pay attention to what it says about breaking it in:confused1:

[MadHatter]

Yup, ride hard from day one. I still dont understand in this day and age why they say ride like a nanna until the 1st service. Car companys sure dont do it. Surely the japs especially have the technology to make a an enginge that is strong out of the box. Breaking in engines has been a joke since, well, forever

Oh I understand.. It's so by the time you open up the throttle the warranty period has expired! :cursing:

[MadHatter]

This topic makes me laugh.

Have a look at what the book says about shifting gears.
1st -2nd 15kph
2nd-3rd 25kph
3rd-4th 35kph
4th-5th 50kph
5th-6th 60kph

No one pays attention to recommended shift points....... Well unless your a ZX10 rider :lmao:
And yet some pay attention to what it says about breaking it in:confused1:



The zx10r booklet says you should keep it below 4000rpm !
I suspect you'd be doing more harm getting about laboring the engine at that engine speed than you would do by just riding it normally.

[zRoYz]

The only reason factory specs for running in say dont rev past a very low rpm is they want you to baby bike for as long as poss to cut down on warranty claims, most things dont fail till stressed.

Modern bikes have light motor internals so they don't mind the revs at all just not constant for first 1000kms & red line is fine. I know of 2 600RR that had to have full strip downs because owners babied them & motors wouldn't rev due to binding.

Like has been said ride it like you stole it but never stay on same speed for more than 5 mins. The only real important thing to remember is with low kms on your bike the warm up on engine start is as important as foreplay is to geting to home base.

[Birdman]

yep i have always said you run em in how your going to ride em

[Dunno]

I once went riding with a mate who had just taken posession of his brand new CR250. I harped on about running it in (cos thats what I had always been told by my old man), this guy started it & twisted the throttle back to the stop 30 seconds after startin it for the 1st time.
I shit myself !!!!! He looked at me & said if that doesnt blow the fucker up nothin will.

I still reckon he's mad!

[MATTK6]

I once went riding with a mate who had just taken posession of his brand new CR250. I harped on about running it in (cos thats what I had always been told by my old man), this guy started it & twisted the throttle back to the stop 30 seconds after startin it for the 1st time.
I shit myself !!!!! He looked at me & said if that doesnt blow the fucker up nothin will.

I still reckon he's mad!

he may be mad, but he's got a good point there:lmao:

[Punisher]

My stock answer for this question is always:

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

Generally starts a heated debate though :)

[MATTK6]

i like the way that guy thinks and works, and i've actually been told by quite a few different mechanics that the best way to run an engine in is to ride it from day one how it will be ridden for the rest of it's life, now i only wish i could have picked the bike up from the shop and towed it straight to the track to break it in, in ideal conditions:ayyy:

[dilbee]

Gave my bike a good hard run into the city and back 1st ride i had on mine and then next night did it again but a little less. Bike has not missed a beat yet but its only got 17K's on it.

[Punisher]

the best way to run an engine in is to ride it from day one how it will be ridden for the rest of it's life

Have a mate who raced dirt bikes for 20 years, always subscribed to above theory. Used to drag them on the beach against mates of his with modified bikes and said they still weren't quicker than his stock bikes. Put it all down to the way they were run in.

[Birdman45]

I'd rekon dirt bikes are a little different than 4 stroke roadies, but anyway......... you did USED to have to run things in coz of the tolerances of the motor etc, but yeah, many race bikes bought new now, I run in on the dyno using precisely that method. Works well.

And who is the clown that stole my cyber identity? LOL I am just "Birdman" on nearly every other site I am on, but I had to go with Birdman45 here, and adding to that the pic in the avatar, is ecactly the pic I have on the back of my guitar picks I had done with the band logo etc on the other side. Hahaha

Add to that the reputation I have on some of those sites, I wouldn't think anyone would WANT to take use of that name. LOL