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[Pete]

Guys:
Looking like Saturday pick up dealer tells me bike is in transit. I have never run in a 110. Same as the 88, under 50mph for the first 500 miles?
Please, tell me it isn't so....

[mjb765]

Guys:
Looking like Saturday pick up dealer tells me bike is in transit. I have never run in a 110. Same as the 88, under 50mph for the first 500 miles?
Please, tell me it isn't so....

Which is impossible since you will get run over on the highway doing 50!!!

[2018_FLTRXSE]

I took the country back roads for the first 14... then got back on the scoot and did the next 150 miles on the freeway

[RedDevil]

Which is impossible since you will get run over on the highway doing 50!!!

Book says don't exceed 3000 rpms for the first 50 miles, then from 50 to 500 miles, vary the speed with engine speeds up to 5000 rpms permissible in each gear.  I broke my SEUC in that way and no problems...that's the way I'm breaking the SESG in also.

 

[Pete]

Thanks >3k under for the first 50 then > 5k I can get home. I'll go around the Presidentials and south through the Kancamangus HWY. Will still end up with about 50 miles highway. Trying not to look at the weather for the weekend.

[GtreetSlide]

I've been breaking in motors in bikes and cars the same way for forty years. Take it easy for first 50 miles, then run the crap out it. Main deal is Do Not run at constant rpms for first couple of hundred miles. Do Not Lug motors. 

Modern motors don't need to be cuddled (except when cold). 

jb

[mjb765]

 

[Pete]

I got it,thanks

[dooinit2u]

I've been breaking in motors in bikes and cars the same way for forty years. Take it easy for first 50 miles, then run the crap out it. Main deal is Do Not run at constant rpms for first couple of hundred miles. Do Not Lug motors. 

Modern motors don't need to be cuddled (except when cold). 

jb

 

Thats the same way I broke in my race motors. Seat bearings & rings first, then run the chit out of it.

If it breaks, it will break with a warranty.

[Wheelsnkeels]

Ride it like you stole it!!!

If its gonna break it wasnt right Thats what the warranty is for?

Also the rev limiter. When we build racing engines for the Hydro's they come out of assembly and race that day!

[SBB]

Book says don't exceed 3000 rpms for the first 50 miles, then from 50 to 500 miles, vary the speed with engine speeds up to 5000 rpms permissible in each gear.  I broke my SEUC in that way and no problems...that's the way I'm breaking the SESG in also.

 

3000 rpms is 80 mph in 6th.


 

SBB

[Wheelsnkeels]

3000 rpms is 80 mph in 6th.


 

SBB

Good point   

[JCZ]

Book says don't exceed 3000 rpms for the first 50 miles, then from 50 to 500 miles, vary the speed with engine speeds up to 5000 rpms permissible in each gear.  I broke my SEUC in that way and no problems...that's the way I'm breaking the SESG in also.

 

Which in sixth gear, 3k rpm is a pretty good clip.  The other thing they told me, especially in the first fifty miles (till the rings are seated) to vary the rpm, don't keep them constant.  So, as I headed down the freeway back towards home (200 miles) besides running from 70 mph down to 55 mph, I would also take an off ramp every five miles or so.....just to fluctuate the rpms and gears.  A couple or three of those off ramps I'd actually take a five-10 minute break just to let it cool back down. That was by choice, nobody told me to do that.

I left just a few days later for our south west tour through Zion National Park, Monument Valley, Grand Canyon, Sedona, etc.  Just rode it the way I normally ride at that point.

[Mr. Wizard]

Not that this is special but it works for me...

I take my new bikes to the mountains and run the twisties for the day or weekend if I take gear. This gives me an RPM range all over the spectrum for acceleration and decel. Seems to work fine. I've got 350 miles on my TS and she seems to be getting stronger the more I ride her. Going back for more punishment if the rain holds off this weekend.

 

[DICKW]

The other thing they told me, especially in the first fifty miles (till the rings are seated) to vary the rpm, don't keep them constant.  So, as I headed down the freeway back towards home (200 miles) besides running from 70 mph down to 55 mph, I would also take an off ramp every five miles or so.....just to fluctuate the rpms and gears.  A couple or three of those off ramps I'd actually take a five-10 minute break just to let it cool back down. That was by choice, nobody told me to do that.

This is what I do.