(10-11-2023, 01:39 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote: While that may feel good, I doubt it actually does much for the combustion chamber of your bike. Removing carbon deposits requires a lot of heat, and Honda worked hard at making sure our bikes don't run too hot with large air fins on the cylinders, an oil cooler and oil channels in the cylinder head around the spark plugs.

However engine components like pistons, rings, valves, cam chains etc are wear items, and only good for so many cycles. You can use those limited number of cycles up quickly or slowly.

Personally I think the "Italian Tune Up" is the placebo effect whereas if you believe you are doing something good for your engine, then you feel better about it, and imagine that your bike is running better, but I do believe the very smart engineers at Honda knew what they were doing when designing this bike and that running it anywhere in the rpm zone from 2,000 rpms to redline for as long as you want will not be detrimental to your engine.