Running in Bikes

[Ge4orce]

For how many miles should one ride a bike in?
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[Keith]

What bike is it?

If its new, you should have a good description in the user manual.
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Aprilia RSV Mille R Edwards Replica - Aprilia RS250 - Suzuki GSXR600 Supersport Race Bike

[Ge4orce]

Hello keith.Any bike I do not really think it does matter what bike it is.Please tell me why you would say it does matter what type of bike it is.
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[Ste]

It's around 1,000 miles for the first 500 or something not above x rpm and then for the second 500 not about y rpm. The dealer will tell you all this when you buy the bike.

[Keith]

Well if its a 2 stroke engine, you need to be considerably careful when running it in, long and annoying process.

If your after that Honda, best off asking Titot as I believe he bought a brand new XR a while bike, should be able to offer better advice.

I imagine it'll just be along the lines of running it in low to medium rev over about 500 miles, then taking it for its first service.
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[Adam_P]

[TheShaggyDA]

[The Dude]

I can't remember where, but i read somewhere a while back that these dudes built 2 bikes from scratch the exact same. Then they thrashed the life out of one around a race track for hours and run the other one in properly. Then they took the engines apart and checked what the difference was and they found that the one they had thrashed wasn't really in any worse state than the one that was run in properly. But the one that got thrashed put out a little more power. Makes ya think i suppose

[MarJay]

Yeah they also found that the one that was thrashed blew up before the one that was run in properly.

Although I suppose you could argue that suspension and chassis components normally give up the ghost way before engines do, and so it doesn't matter really...

On a superbike I might thrash the thing... on a 4T 125 I might run it in properly!
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[The Tot]

First 100 miles at 30mph
Next 100 miles at 35-40mph ( or go on a Killspills rally like what happend when i was running it in - not a good idea)
200-300 miles 40-50mph
300-400 - just keep it at 50
400+ Cane it till the top speed - i got 73mph down hill

Then service it. Please DON'T wheelie your bike before you have it serviced or run it - the general idea is to keep your bike at even revs - not to stress it at ultra low revs or screech it to the redline - shortshift through the grears to make use of all 5 gears, even at 30mph.

Do observe these guidlines when running it in as you want to prolong the life of the engine - after it's run in - give it hell

Do they even have your bike on the UK market as i think it's identical to the XR other than the fact that it has a front drum brake.
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[Fortuna]

I had to run mine in again last summer I did some serious tuning though.

[Kickstart]

Hi

One good reason to run it in is that some clearances will tighten up. For example as the valve clearances tighten up (which is not unlikely on an engine with shimmed valves) then they will start not to close. With the extra heat of being thrashed you stand a fair chance of it dropping a valve.

All the best

Keith
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[Ge4orce]

You see the problem is I will have about 3-4 months to ride it in,because I live 10miles outside the town and I am going to ride with my bike to school and back.Well the minimum speed I will need to go is 62,because it is each side of the road has only one lane and it is quite busy.Where I live however I can ride at low speeds and there is many places I can go.My family is not very rich so I would like to get as many miles out of my bike as possible.
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[Rob W]

What Tito said, if I'm right my bike (Derbi Senda SM125) has got the same engine as the XR, and all it says in the manual about the running in period is dont go above 8,000rpm for the first 500km's, and work all the gears as much as possible rather than stressing them, after that it says periodically run it to redline for the next 500km's then your away

[Kickstart]