Does anyone really follow this??

[Jrmay]

I was reading through the Owners Manual (2012 Super 8 150) and am interested how many folks actually follow their advise by not riding over 1/2 throttle for the first 300 miles?  I can see not running it WOT for extended periods of time, but does anyone really follow this?

[de dee]

I followed MototuneUSA. break in method  I carried my scooter home and there is a one mile hill close by,  after warm up,  I ran up and down the hill for twenty miles, went home and changed the oil,. used dino oil for first 1,500 miles then switched to mobil 1 ,  5 W 50 ,  I am at 28,000  km. now and it runs like a champ,. oil changes at 20 miles 100 miles 200 miles 400 miles the dealer did the 600 mile change,. now I do changes every 2,000 miles I do a lot of my riding on high speed H W,s to get to the country roads, 120 km. per hour to 140 km. per hour. the tranny was changed oil at 600 miles by dealer and I change tranny oil when I do the moter oil, I always do oil changes hot, after a good run ,.  riding a 300i downtown 2011 in ottawa canada,. have a happy new year   

[de dee]

  P S . the reason for the hill run is to get full compression on the down hill run and WOT . on the up hill run ,. tryed to keep RPM below 7,500 ,. the top of the hill was 1 mile to turn around and bottom of the hill 1/2 mile to turn around,.

[MotoRandy123]

 You'd have to have a lot of patience to stay below 1/2 throttle for 300 miles!

 Some vehicles I've broken in felt "tight" a DR350 comes to mind. On that bike I
rode around accelerating and decelerating holding the rev's below the point it
got tight and rev'ed past the tight point a little bit each ride. It might have red
lined at 9000 and the tight point was 5000 to begin and slowly it pushed higher
and higher.

  The problem is localized heating. A tight point will get super hot which can cause
glazing and seizing. The goal is to heat cycle and machine the irregularities off the
surfaces without any glazing or seizing.

  My new Yager never felt tight but from the looks of the oil it did a lot of machining
in the first 100 miles....

[bleys]

I followed the owner's manual for break-in with my Xciting 250...1/2 throttle for X miles and then 3/4 throttle for next X miles.  I now have just over 2K miles and she purrs....no tight spots, no hesitation...she accelerates well and I'm pleased with the performance.  Yes it was a little aggravating at times and I likely went over the recommended throttle at times for brief periods, but the results have been great.

[wordslinger]

...bought my 08 agility 50 new, ran it WOT from day 1...

...rode it over 55,000kms before it had any real issue...

[ts1]

I was reading through the Owners Manual (2012 Super 8 150) and am interested how many folks actually follow their advise by not riding over 1/2 throttle for the first 300 miles?

The Kymco Xciting was my only new scoot and I didn't followed exactly, but of course the big engine needs >50% throttle only occasionally. Driving warm (ca. 5 miles) with an eye at the tachometer and then go as desired. It's reaching 30k miles now without any engine issues.