| small throttle openings in lower gears (idealy keep revs between 3000 and 6000rpm) for the first 100 miles then progessively increase thottle openings to 500 miles and allow engine to rev up to around 8-9000 rpm in lower gears but not opening throttle fully, then use all the rev range and progessively move to full throttle/max rpm over the next 500 miles. this has worked on all 4 of my ducatis none of which use much oil and avoids the bores glazing and excessive ring blow by. modern oils lubricate very well so much so that too gentle running in causes more problems than thrashing the bike from new! the only thing to avoid is labouring the engine in too higher gear!!
dave
ps, on most modern cars the first service interval is at 1 year/10,000 miles and we get in ex hire cars for servicing and the engines are perfect, nobody runs in a hire car. the only downside to not running in a bike is if some tolerences are too tight you get a siezure etc and the engine will produce less power later in its life  |