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don't forget to wear a diaper…
I don't know how you had the patience to not get on it right away..?
That is like going out the first time with a beautiful Italian Supermodel that wants to get down with it and you just want to hold hands LOL The Panigale begs to be ridden hard..
I think I rode about 45 minutes at medium RPM level before I started gradually letting it step up on RPM at 1000 increments for a few seconds then let off and ride for a little bit then step it up again until I finally hit 10500 RPM Then I let it cool down overnight and did the same thing the next day and it was broken in. I think after a few heat cycles it more or less is broken in for the most part.. The metallurgy they have nowadays and the precise tolerances allow them to break in pretty quickly..
From what I have read the factory guys rev them up to the red line while still on the dyno before they certify them ready to go.
Everyone has their own theories..
Speedy
That is like going out the first time with a beautiful Italian Supermodel that wants to get down with it and you just want to hold hands LOL The Panigale begs to be ridden hard..
I think I rode about 45 minutes at medium RPM level before I started gradually letting it step up on RPM at 1000 increments for a few seconds then let off and ride for a little bit then step it up again until I finally hit 10500 RPM Then I let it cool down overnight and did the same thing the next day and it was broken in. I think after a few heat cycles it more or less is broken in for the most part.. The metallurgy they have nowadays and the precise tolerances allow them to break in pretty quickly..
From what I have read the factory guys rev them up to the red line while still on the dyno before they certify them ready to go.
Everyone has their own theories..
Speedy
They do that to all bikes before it gets packaged and shipped out. This is my first Ducati and I was told it has a blk box that record like what BMW do.
Have a 2012 zx10r and the first day I rode it out of the dealer. I hit all gears hitting around 11rpm
Was thinking of doing the same with the Duc but that blk box freaks me out.
what do you all think is the best to break in the Duc?
Have a 2012 zx10r and the first day I rode it out of the dealer. I hit all gears hitting around 11rpm
Was thinking of doing the same with the Duc but that blk box freaks me out.
what do you all think is the best to break in the Duc?
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I broke mine in according to the manual, just commuting to work on the freeway made it easy to keep the rpms lowish.
Just think of it as 600mi of foreplay, when I finally got to open it up after the first service it was that much more glorious.
Just think of it as 600mi of foreplay, when I finally got to open it up after the first service it was that much more glorious.
maybe I'll keep it under for the first 200 miles then open her up
Same for me. Why baby them? Give them plenty of loving from the get go.
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If your going to keep the bike for a short time or pull the motor down between seasons belt it from the start if you want to keep the sleeves without scarring be a little more cautious with the break in cycle .
This has been debated to death on this forum and I have seen first hand scarred sleeves due to poor running in but of course the sleeves can be replaced in these motors I have replaced one myself .
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I have broken in the Dragon .... as per Ducati's specifications. It took a lot of discipline and will power, but the Dragon .... has never needed to be topped up with oil since her first service and she has done more than 24 000 km already.
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Oddly enough, the owners manual answers that very question. You should read it.
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If you want Ducati to honour your warrantee the manual should be your Bible, except if you are in South Africa where I have heard rumours that Porsche SA is the anti-Christ,
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The Ducati engineers that built and designed this engine just wrote the break in procedure in the manual for a joke. They spent lots of time and money testing and then writing the procedure.
But they did all that because they had nothing better to do. You can get much better advice on here from guys who have owned a Panigale for 5 minutes and paint houses for a living.
(No offence to any house painters)
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