It's Friday and I picked up my bike

[Texascat]

Brought her home today and can take may hands off her
What a ride...

Any recommandations on engine break in?
Dealer recommended first 100 miles under 3,500 (with the occasioal over)
100-300 up to 6,000 (with the occasional 8,000)
300 - 500 up to the readlne

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[shiver]

ride it like you stole it :-D :-D

[jasonworthing]

I followed the factory recommends, it was painful, especially being in 6th gear and only able to go 65MPH. I'm a little over 12,000 miles now and my scoot doesnt burn any oil whatsoever.

Just persevere and take care of the 500 mile break in, over rev is likely unavoidable on occasion and shouldnt be a big deal; be sure not to lug the engine too much or get hung up in any specific gear and/or engine speed too much. Allow the engine to warm up properly and enjoy yourself.

After the break in period is over..ride 'er like you stole her..

Yeah, dont complain about the clucky tranny, we already know about it...it'll smooth out in time. Practice preloading when shifting, it helps a lot...

er...where are the obligatory pics?

[Texascat]

thanks jasonworthing... not quite skilled yet on posting pics... I uploaded one pic on the photo album submission area... not sure how to link it here (if possible)...

[jasonworthing]

get thee to photobucket.com, set up an account. They will host all your pics which you will upload there and copy and paste the corresponding URL code into the this message area and ta-da, pics for all of us to see and poke unnecessary comments about.

It's all free and easy, good luck.

[cheapbastard]

welcome to the asylum! Another texan, huh? Well, ya know what they say about texas... only black S3's with M4 exhausts come from there. :razz:

[Catenaccio]

ENJOY!

[Mikey-S3]

On 2007-03-17 00:01, cheapbastard wrote:
welcome to the asylum! Another texan, huh? Well, ya know what they say about texas... only black S3's with M4 exhausts come from there. :razz:

:-D

I predict a "Dumped S3, bought a vespa" thread in tekmoe's near future :hammer:


@ Jasonworthing, you mention in a reply of yours to "practice preloading", i'm not sure what you mean by this. Could you clear this up a bit?

Texascat, i can feel your joy, have a good time and have fun breaking it in easy :-D

[jasonworthing]

On 2007-03-17 05:49, Mikey-S3 wrote:

@ Jasonworthing, you mention in a reply of yours to "practice preloading", i'm not sure what you mean by this. Could you clear this up a bit?

Preloading the transmission; generally for upshifting, the practice of using just slightly less force on the shift lever than needed to engage in the next gear and then rolling off the throttle about 25% ,engaging the clutch while following through with the actual gear changing procedure.

Lots of folks use this technique to shift smoothly or to compensate for transmissions that tend to be notchy, have long shilft lever travel or that are generally a tad imprecise to shift in general.

When you are comfortable with it, most people use that technique for clutch-less upshifting, generally while traveling at or near full throttle; preload the lever while haulin' a@@, instantaneaously roll off the throttle; the momentary transmission unloading wil allow you to quick upshift without employing the clutch lever at all, then you roll back on with the throttle. Upshift only mind you.

Remember, when preloading do not use enough force to actually pull the transmission out of gear and the clutch-less shifting is not a technique to employ while downshifting or while cruising, it highly dependant on you accelerating to some degree as when you finally 'roll off' the throttle momentarily, this fascilitates the transmission "unloading" that allows you to snick the lever quickly and smoothly into the next gear.

I'm no expert so I hope this makes sense..

[ This message was edited by: jasonworthing on 2007-03-17 10:21 ]

[Texascat]

ok, lets' try one more time... and again, thank you Jasonworthing