Quote Originally Posted by breakaway View Post
The manufacturer planned and made it... so they must know what they're talking about.
These are the same people who redline the bike under load on a dyno before it leaves the factory, then tell you to baby it for the next 1000km's?

Time to get on my hobby horse again: why buy a new bike? You pay a premium for 1000km's of not being able to ride it how you'd like to, at which point you pay for a service and it's worth fractionally more than the second hand unit you turned your nose up at just before you decided to buy new. It's the most expensive 1000km's you'll ever do.

But that's just jaded ol' me...if you've bought new then I'm sure you've been grinning like Michael Jackson on a school bus, so good onya.