Running in?

[och2pot]

OK so we're all sitting here just waiting for delivery, or some of you lucky folk actually have your baby (beast)

how are we going to run it in properly? You've got to wake it up and show it you mean business- right?

So warm it up well , say 75 miles gently from cold, then find empty mountain roads, wind it open gradually . one long run is the best, after 100miles open it up harder and harder in short bursts so by 200 miles you're really scrubbing those rings in with full pressure combustion, then start hitting 5000rpm on downhill stretches just spinning the engine up , letting it slow down on the overrun, no brakes, just use the gears.

Head home after 300 odd miles for a beer

do it again next day then take it to the dealer for the 500 mile service

That's my plan - what's yours?

 

[travelguy]

bag of cheetos and spank'n the monkey

 

[Anders]

bag of cheetos and spank'n the monkey

Midget Monkey??? LMAO!!!

 

[Anders]

OK so we're all sitting here just waiting for delivery, or some of you lucky folk actually have your baby (beast)

how are we going to run it in properly? You've got to wake it up and show it you mean business- right?

So warm it up well , say 75 miles gently from cold, then find empty mountain roads, wind it open gradually . one long run is the best, after 100miles open it up harder and harder in short bursts so by 200 miles you're really scrubbing those rings in with full pressure combustion, then start hitting 5000rpm on downhill stretches just spinning the engine up , letting it slow down on the overrun, no brakes, just use the gears.

Head home after 300 odd miles for a beer

do it again next day then take it to the dealer for the 500 mile service

That's my plan - what's yours?

There are 2 skools of thought - do yours, or similar, but if it was me my old-skool experience sez take it a lot longer than 500 miles to get the revs to 5,000 - others say after a few hundred miles give it some grease, makes for a 'fast' engine - I would have thought with the latest tech and Triumph tolerances, breaking in shd be a lot quicker these days - OTOH blast it to 'seat' everything in - I'm interested too in what the Captains here have to say!

 

[TriumPhil]

I buy all my bikes used or pre-run in.

 

[Anders]

I buy all my bikes used or pre-run in.

I KNOW!!! That's the scary part, my clutch is just getting replaced at 8,000 miles, it has been crap since I bought my beloved at 5,000!!! In all likelyhood my next R3 will be 2nd hand too, in for apenny...

 

[HellFire]

Started at zero and rode it. The more I got comfortable with the bike the harder I rode it, pretty much all the "break in" time It needed ... I needed too.

 

[xhdskip]

Mine was a demo bike.
it had 23 miles on it the first time I rode it.
They loaned it to a guy that lived about 100 miles away
while he had his rocket serviced.
I got it the next week and it had 153 miles on it.
Ran her up to 85MPH for about 100 miles with stops in between,
and not doggin her to hard, not over 3,500 RPM's,
then the next 100 I'd wind her up and let her run.
After her first 500, she was road worthy.

 

[RatBoy]

Got mine at ground 0...

- Road it home from the dealer... @30 miles...

- Next day, went to the mountains for the weekend... @600 miles of 1st & 2nd... varying the revs depending upon the extent of the twisties...

- Came back home from the mountains @80 miles... blasting as fast I thought that I could get away with..

- Took in two days later for the break-in service, much to the surprise of the sales rep that had sold me the bike just a couple of days earlier.

 

[Gunshots]

Old School

Not for me. Break it in just like you plan on riding it.