05-06-2016, 08:12 AM
Toddman, with respect this is a thread about breaking in an engine—that is how you run it for a brief period when it's new and you drive out of the showroom. The manual for the CBR1000RR ([url=http://www.hondampe.com.au/docs/owning_a_honda/owners_manuals/motorcycles/32MGP6130_CBR1000RR14%20OM.pdf]see here) says on page 16 that you should ride the bike conservatively, avoid heavy acceleration and braking etc, etc for the first 300 miles.
Sounds like your (ex) wife broke it in perfectly so it's hard to see that as the problem for what happened later. You seem to be saying that it you don't thrash the guts out of the engine from the outset, you'll have problems.
Break your bike in how you like. Me? I'll choose to continue to belive—probably naively—that the manufacturer is not a complete moron and knows what it's saying when suggesting you follow some guidelines for the first few hundred miles.
Sounds like your (ex) wife broke it in perfectly so it's hard to see that as the problem for what happened later. You seem to be saying that it you don't thrash the guts out of the engine from the outset, you'll have problems.
Break your bike in how you like. Me? I'll choose to continue to belive—probably naively—that the manufacturer is not a complete moron and knows what it's saying when suggesting you follow some guidelines for the first few hundred miles.