Can't argue with thermo dynamics. Number of people I see start their cars from cold and use them like a drill or chain saw. No warming up and rev them like there is no tomorrow. Its a heat engine for goodness sake, not a vacuum cleaner. LOL.
Never owned a bike, but ive always ran my cars hard from new (engine warmed up of course!) and never had any issues, even with the cars i kept from new to past 100,000kms. I do keep up with maintenance (fluid changes etc) though.
Basically followed the manufacturers advice in the owners manual on my superbike. Did lots and lots of heat cycles, though, based on a race engine builders thoughts on the matter. Most other bikes, I just ride and try to vary the RPM a bit, same as most other new vehicles.
I personally feel that people are far to eager to use synthetic oils nowadays. Not exactly a new design but when the Blackbird came out Honda specified bog standard mineral oil for the first 8k miles (or was it 10k??) Yet i've seen sub 10k mile bikes for sale that have had almost a dozen services with the proud seller boasting of always using the best 'Fully Synthetic oil etc blah blah blah' They think it's a good thing but the opposite is true.
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My brand new R6 was flat out from day 1, always ran perfect!
Can't argue with thermo dynamics. Number of people I see start their cars from cold and use them like a drill or chain saw. No warming up and rev them like there is no tomorrow. Its a heat engine for goodness sake, not a vacuum cleaner. LOL.
Never owned a bike, but ive always ran my cars hard from new (engine warmed up of course!) and never had any issues, even with the cars i kept from new to past 100,000kms. I do keep up with maintenance (fluid changes etc) though.
I think regular oil/filter changes are the best thing you can do to give a car a long life 👍
Speaking of which, mine needs doing 🙈
Basically followed the manufacturers advice in the owners manual on my superbike. Did lots and lots of heat cycles, though, based on a race engine builders thoughts on the matter. Most other bikes, I just ride and try to vary the RPM a bit, same as most other new vehicles.
I personally feel that people are far to eager to use synthetic oils nowadays. Not exactly a new design but when the Blackbird came out Honda specified bog standard mineral oil for the first 8k miles (or was it 10k??) Yet i've seen sub 10k mile bikes for sale that have had almost a dozen services with the proud seller boasting of always using the best 'Fully Synthetic oil etc blah blah blah' They think it's a good thing but the opposite is true.
I might get hold of an oil guy for an interview on bike oils