@BrunDog - No slam, but do read the Moto-man break in procedure before you go panning it. Then read your owner's manual. Sustained high rpms are what we want to avoid. No where in your manual does it suggest that short romps above the "suggested" rpm limits is a problem, or even a "bad thing". The Moto-man isn't suggesting 1k to redline at any point. In fact, it doesn't suggest going to redline at all until the final part of the procedure. Most of the runs you do are 4k to 6-7k at half throttle in a progression of accel/decel runs.
FJR1300.info - Break-in There is a link to the Moto-man site here too.
@Markjenn - You say it goes against the manual, but then immediatly confirm it doesn't by your next statements. :huh:
Do what you're comfy with is the general rule here. Just don't buy a used bike from someone that "babied it" for their break in.
The Moto-man concept is simply to load the rings in accel and decel with some cool down inbetween runs and no sustained high rpm running to fully seat the rings w/o excessive heat to them. The risk is not annealing of the rings, as Brundog suggests, but of surface hardening them. The excessive heat hardens the surface of the rings and then they are unable to wear in, being harder than the bores. With our ceramic coated cylinder bores this is likely less of an issue, but surely would increase the time to seat the rings to the bores.
@Brundog - About engineers. I work with a bunch of people that call themselves engineers. Most of them are not bonded, don't have their stamp and are complete bozos. Ok, complete is too harsh, but the problem is they lack the ability to actually make the things they "design", and don't fully understand the actions, interactions and limitations of the design they come up with. Far too often these engineering students with degrees ignore simple issues that are obvious to anyone with direct experience in the field. Just because someone has a degree in engineering, does not make them an engineer. Just like lawyers, there is a process to complete to make them real engineers. Most do not accomplish this extra process. BE very careful what you believe out of the mouth of an engineer.
As to your comments about 75% loading and keeping the temps in check, exactly how do you propose to gauge this in a controlled manner on the road? Can't easily be done, so you do what everyone else does, ride be the seat of your pants and do what
you think is the right thing based on
your experience .