Regarding breaking in a brand new bike: the manufacturers all instruct to limit
rpms in stages as miles are put on, and many stress "taking it easy" on a new motor as in avoid harsh acceleration,etc.
Yet some people in the motorcycle community take an opposite view and advocate riding a new bike "normally", presumably meaning if one feels like redlining it right out of the crate, then go ahead and do so. After all, the conventional and shadetree wisdom is often that if you don't break it in the way you will ride it the rest of its life, then it will somehow develop a "set"
or in effect be a underperforming machine forever.
Is there any evidence to support the don't baby the bike theory?
Or is this like "don't use synthetic oil in a new motor because the rings won't seat for a very long time compared to using regular oil?" - no validity to this?
rpms in stages as miles are put on, and many stress "taking it easy" on a new motor as in avoid harsh acceleration,etc.
Yet some people in the motorcycle community take an opposite view and advocate riding a new bike "normally", presumably meaning if one feels like redlining it right out of the crate, then go ahead and do so. After all, the conventional and shadetree wisdom is often that if you don't break it in the way you will ride it the rest of its life, then it will somehow develop a "set"
or in effect be a underperforming machine forever.
Is there any evidence to support the don't baby the bike theory?
Or is this like "don't use synthetic oil in a new motor because the rings won't seat for a very long time compared to using regular oil?" - no validity to this?