Think I will just go by the owners manual and use some common sense.

 

There is a rubber preservative on all new tires or they would dry out sitting in warehouses and on the shelves until they were mounted and run.

 

And the CORRECT answer issssssss ??????????????

 

There is a very good reason RPM's should be kept under 3 grand for the first 50 miles, which seats the rings. The peaks & valleys need to be worn down which creats a lot of heat from friction. Too many RPM's, therefore too much heat equals distorting the rings or possibly welding the suckers to the cylinder wall. Short full thottle bursts are OK & actually should be done.

 

How much do you have invested in your new motorcycle? If the engine has problems later on down the road and it needs to be torn down then the question gets asked, "how did you break in the motor?" The side walls of the pistons don't lie. Your choice stay with the owners manual or .......

 

If you don't have a tach how do you know what was said by many?? I was told to keep it under 50 mph for first 50 miles and under 70 mph for first 500 miles, and vary the speed. The tires are slick when new

 

The RPM is what you want to limit. Stay under 5,000 for the first few hundred miles and you'll be fine. You should never get near that RPM unless you're burning out on takeoffs anyway. Don't worry about using 6th gear either. As a matter of fact you should be using it. Higher speed with lower RPM. You need to get the tranny broken in as well so use all the gears.

 

No there isn't.

 

Depends on the tire and the tire manufacturer...Dunlop doesn't use any, but some manufacturers use a tire mold release agent which can be slick.

I agree with Eyespy though, the advice to take it easy for 100miles or so on new tires is just to rough them up (which adds traction), not to wear off any slick stuff.

 

i dont know if there is a tire preservative or if there is a mold release agent, BUT the tires i have had put on my motorcycles, dozens of them over the years, are noticeably slippery until the outer layer is worn off. you can feel it and see it on the surface of the tire.

call it what you want, but i take it easy while wearing this layer of slippery surface off my tires.

"y'all" can do and believe what you want.