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How best to run in my new 4v 1200 sport?

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Im waiting to collect my new 1200 sport on 1st september, its my first new bike after 35 years of riding a variety of modern, classic and old machines.
This bike has to be a keeper so Ive got to do this right.
What is the best way to run it in, anyone have any thoughts on this?
Does advice vary from dealer to dealer and country to country?

I cant see any other posts on this but I apologise if ive missed something

By the way, I can`t wait !!
 
Just ride it 'Normally'. Don't thrash it or lug it but do give it a good fistfull from time to time in the midrange. That'll help the rings to seat. Check the oil level often. Once it's done a few hundred Km start riding it harder,
 
The owner's manual says the perfect place to break it in is a curvy road with elevation changes, thus forcing the rider to vary throttle input frequently. Unfortunately, there's nothing like that where I live, so I just pretended I was riding the Tail of the Dragon as I meandered around the farm fields.
 
Thanks guys for your advice. i`ve just read an article written by Kevin Ash that explains `running in` as two processes, `conforming``, where all moving, touching surfaces wear to fit each other better and `surface finishing`, where surfaces flatten at a microscopic level. Interestingly, at the end of this article a guy who trains learner bikers talks about his experiences with the 125`s all being abused from new and after 5k miles all ran like clockwork.

http://ashonbikes.com/content/running ( thanks doc )

I`ll see what the dealer says then decide, it seems about 500 miles is sufficient distance and consensus is to rev it up gradually and not to let it chug. I`m going to get up there just before the dealer opens and get a full days riding in. 8 days now before collection.
 
Keep the combustion pressure high with good throttle openings in the middle region of the clock as the gasses pass behind the piston rings and press them against the cylinder wall.
Or else the piston rings will polish the cylinder before the cylinder has a chance to seat them perfectly so you will end up having some steady oil consumption for the rest of its operational life putting higher carbon deposits all around.
 
Follow Todds advice, go and read the article from MototuneUSA.

Don't tell the dealer about that, but when you pick up your bike say I'll be back shortly for an oil and filter change.
Your sump will be full of crap within a few miles. Triumph run their bikes on a dyno at the factory, flat out. Then drop the oil and filter, after 5 minutes use.

Then go back out and do some hard miles and be back for another oil and filter change half hour before shop closes,
it will live long and reward you greatly.

If the dealer knows you ran it in hard, they may distance themselves from you. If they think you are fastidious and careful they might be more inclined to assist you should any warranty issues arise.
 
ghezzi said:
If the dealer knows you ran it in hard, they may distance themselves from you. If they think you are fastidious and careful they might be more inclined to assist you should any warranty issues arise.
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I don't think Ian at Maxmoto will mind, he tends to ride them like he stole them anyway..... :D

All good advice.

IanB.
 
You`re right Hairybiker, I could hear him `warmimg up` an aprilia outside the shop when I went to look at a 1200 before I bought one.

I also noticed when I went to look at my bike in the shop after it was delivered from Italy that the exhaust had some black soot down the pipe even though the bike had just been uncrated so either the factory test their bikes maybe like Triumph or Ian does!

Motorcycle factorys must want their products to last and give max power so they must make the running in process as easy as possible for the wide range of people who buy their bikes. So, whatever people do it`ll probably be ok.

Dont think I`ll be able to resist a bit of `large throttle opening ` in 2nd or 3rd if the weathers good.
 
I know Norton used to test ride all the Commandos before sending them out to the unsuspecting public.
I knew the testers, and they really hammered the bikes, how else could they tell if all was good with the bike?
 
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