I can't believe everyone gets so uptight about this subject everytime it comes up! What the article doesn't mention is that my Bike comes with Fully Synthetic oil and to keep the dealer warranty it must then be flushed and replaced with more of the same oil and 600 Miles. Does anyone have enough evidence to support a need for dropping this £20 a Ltr oil and putting in semi-synthetic to promote better wear rate? Just seems a bit extreme. I've just ridden the bike normally up to around 7k revs, but making sure it's fully warmed up before I even touch the throttle and leaving it 30 seconds idling before stopping it, oh and making sure any time I start it I warm it and ride it properly not just starting it for a few mins to shows mates.
Yeah but idling it is not putting the engine under load so it not warming up, just scraping the crap out of itself...........or so I have heard.
But we are talking 3-4 mins of Idling to get it warm, the oil isn't up to temprature so wouldn't help the engine even if you did just drive away from cold, and 30 seconds when finishing a ride when the oil is nice and warm. Either way, this is how I have always done it and will continue too as I don't have a Dyno 'just kicking around'....
typically youd drain down the synthetic. put a cheap mineral oil in, run in. drain down and refill with original synthetic. I wouldnt throw it away
I've been tonking the crap out of everything I owned since before that bloke was a spunk bubble. Nothing new here.
Me. Ive done countless 2 strokes this way. Tuned 2 strokes. Okay they were lambrettas but still....Plus the 1198 I bought new. Its as the guy says. Its all about getting the seal.
Sometimes, words are spoken or written that transcend our understanding of what is ordinary. Fig, you is the new poet laureate.
As figaro says 'nothing new here' Anyhow, I read in some Ducati book a while back that all engines are 'load tested' prior to being fitted in the frame. And the load test entailed the engine having the tits screamed clean off it for 6 minutes!!! 6 minutes is a fucking long time to be flat stick! I've never managed it. Sooooo, when I got my brand spanking 2006 999R from the showroom in Newcastle I made jolly well sure I maxed it out several times on the A1 back to Doncaster. What fun......
I believe all engines are 'pressure tested'; that is to ensure that the compression values are correct when built, and I believe that they are all run on a basic Dyno once finished to make sure that they are producing 'acceptable power' which means that they will have had a reasonable thrash from new. I would find 6 Minutes flat out hard to believe, even race bikes won't be flat out for that long at a constant RPM.
Hmmm, perhaps your right. 6 minutes is an eternity flat out. Maybe the parameter checks take 6 minutes.
If you do the tour of the Ducati factory, as I did in 2011, you get to see how they do it. Each newly built engine is run for a few minutes cold (i.e. turned over mechanically but not fired up) to check on oil pressure, electrical outputs, etc. Later, after each engine has been installed in a bike, the fully-built bike (minus fairings and with a dummy tank and seat) is fired up on a rolling road and run for a few minutes while there are further checks. Then it goes off to have the fairings installed and be crated for dispatch elsewhere. The one I saw was run up but not revved flat out, and not for six minutes.
