Drew (guest)  |
| Fri Apr 08, 2005 4:40 pm |
| Re: Breaking the bike in |
If you run it too hard too quickly the components will not have seated properly and gone through enough heat
cycles to make good seals and you will loose overall engine compression. You may only lose 1% of the
compression compared to a perfect bike or you may lose more. One of my friends decided to run it at 6,500
the first day he had after the break in was over his bike was clearly slower than mine. I rode his to confirm
this. I know im being towards the conservative side of the argument, but I believe that ignoring the break in
procedure increases your chances of having engine problems early in the engine's life. Additionally, if you do
ignore break in and something does go wrong kawasaki will blame it on you riding too hard during break in
and call it user error and you will have to buy yourself a new engine or get a lawyer in which case it costs just
as much if not more.
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Break-In at 4K - Lugging the motor... — Duke Dunsford, Sat Apr 09, 2005 8:22 am -
noticed you've heard it all? — coondog, Sat Apr 09, 2005 12:12 am
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n/t (n/t) — Todd_SC, Fri Apr 08, 2005 9:24 pm -
Re: Breaking the bike in — sirThej, Fri Apr 08, 2005 8:59 pm
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Re: Breaking the bike in — Where2Now, Fri Apr 08, 2005 4:52 pm
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Re: Breaking the bike in — dizeldawg, Fri Apr 08, 2005 6:53 pm
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One difference — Sameraz, Fri Apr 08, 2005 9:02 pm
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Re: One difference — dizeldawg, Sat Apr 09, 2005 10:37 am
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Drive it like you stole it. It's under warrenty anyway. (n/t) — The Shell answer man, Fri Apr 08, 2005 3:04 pm
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Re: Breaking the bike in — HikerBiker, Fri Apr 08, 2005 1:49 pm
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Re: Breaking the bike in — GXRKLR, Fri Apr 08, 2005 1:49 pm
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Re: Breaking the bike in — nonposter, Fri Apr 08, 2005 1:17 pm
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Re: Breaking the bike in — Drew, Fri Apr 08, 2005 4:40 pm