how did are or will you break your scoot in?

i broke mine in on the drive home.
i would wind it out as fast as she would run then close the throttle to coast down to 30 mph or so then repeat.
77 miles.
my break-in was unintentional, i had a slow jet problem with the carb.

We followed the manual.

KC

I changed my oil after the frist 1000 k the book said frist oil after 300 my dealer told me wrong and I didn't read it until I had a 1000 k on it havn't done the gear oil yet thinking about checking up on that

Hi All,
The bearings in these motors are roller bearings they are not the flat tri metal bearings we find in our automitve engines. They reqwuire no seating time and the only thing that is really being friction fitted are the rings. Those have to set quickly or they will not set at all. The hard break-in works best for that. Also using a conventional oil during hte first few hundred miles goes a long way to helping the engine "fit" itself. The initial specs on any engine will be tight to allow for all the parts to seat with each other, and while this does not require a hard breakin the same will not hurt it either. The rings on the other hand DO require that they be seated well in the first few miles of operation.
Rdie safe, ride long.

I took it easy because my scooters have the more modern engines with plain bearings.

changed the fluids before riding,

the hardest breakin would be not changing fluids, im sure the bike will age prematurely or not get you back home. i wish they wouldnt even put a mile on the engine with that cheap stuff they ship with.

so,

yarddog does things "different" make up your own jokes.

10w30 walmart full synthetic to begin with in the engine. and gear box also. (good for helix good for me good for yp250 good for me.)

Full strength low tox antifreeze (PG not EG) 100% not a drop of water. you have to use litmus or test strips to test, not a bulb type tester. im gonna change every year or two, so no litmus needed.

dot 4 synthetic valvoline brake fluid. i got great brakes.

26psi front 28 psi back no passenger so that was ok.

2 ounces of marvel mystery oil in gasoline (for that upper lube earlwb was talking about. the only thing i have to say about hard riding is possibly knocking the tension out of the rings due to the extreme heat build up in the beginning of engines life i know combustion pressure pushes the rings agains the cylinder walls and everything has to be cooled some it is a fact that engines build up some extra heat in the beginning, two cycle engines have upper cylinder lubrication going on during break in.) and one ounce in engine oil.

some history,
the mmo was so good in the heat and cold of oklahoma in the oil fields that i have used it since 1976. does it get cold in oklahoma?? how about frost on a bare dry hiway. (saw it, and car started just great) cold in those drilling rig towers also.

yarddogs breakin,
i hopped on the bali and headed for the hills and valleys, up, down, accelerate under load decent descent speed, curves in and accelerate out. watched that temp gauge closely.

finally settled on valvoline dura blend. because of cost and test results.

here

www.animegame.com/cars/Oil%20Tests.pdf

never tried valvoline for long, so i am not pushing it, i have used it. bike will die with it. or live with it now after seeing the bike magazine test result.

yarddog

I rode it just like I drive every new car I get...normally. No need for driving very slow or extra hard to break-in a new engine in my opinon. I just use them normally and change the oil a little more often for the first few miles to clean things out. Hasn't failed me yet and I think some of this break-in stuff goes a little to the extreme.

Ditto with Kaintuckdave and volunteer. In So Cal, there's really nowhere you can ride around at less than 20 MPH. I ran it to the occasional WOT and about 70-80% WOT most of the way. The only thing different is that I varied the speed a lot for the first 500 miles. I'm sure I probably didn't do it perfectly, but then again, who knows.

Run 'em hard, service 'em to last.

That's the way I was taught, and its worked for me. (50yrs)

I've got 135 miles on my yy250t and have been doing the 'motoman' style break-in. There's a very steep hill near my house, known locally by the bike/skateboard kids as 'Dead Man's Hill'. 1st time I rode it I went straight there, and went up and down it about 8 times. I've been conscious of not holding the throttle steadily, rather I take off at WOT, and when traffic's at a steady speed I goose it, let it coast, repeat. It's already noticeably loosened up.

Motorman all the way. In fact, changed oil & gear @ 20 miles, then oil at 200, 400, then 1,000, 1,500, now at 2,000. The 250 holds so little oil, why not change it when it gets black?

Kat, at 600 mi. they changed your break-in oil to a full synthetic oil which is recomended by Piaggio/Aprilia and then you're good to go for thousands of mi. because your bike has a real oil filter.