OK, most of you know I just got my '03 636 3-4 weeks ago. So, as you can all guess, I'm still in the break-in period. Well, I've been keeping it under 4000 to be on the safe side but today I done screwed it all up.
Whenever I'm at a stoplight I always look behind me (being a paranoid newbie) just to see if anyone is uncomfortably close. I look directly behind me and there's no one but this approaching car to the lane beside me (on the right). So when he pulls up in his crap-ass Honda he starts rolling his car back and forth and revving his engine. I thought to myself... should I risk it and strain the engine? When the light turned he had a head start on me, so I went ahead and let him go on and I shifted at 4000 r.p.m. until I hit 4th gear.
By this time he was a good 2-3 car lengths ahead of me and I can hear his shitty exhaust through his shitty pipe struggling. Anyway, without even thinking about the break-in thing, I just ripped the fucking throttle open and shifted at 6000 r.p.m. I cruised beside him for a few seconds, flipped him off with my clutching hand, opened up the throttle and I was gone! I got up to 78 mph on a long residential road! This is, by far, the most exciting thing I've done on my bike since I've had it.
Now only to fight that urge until 1000 miles.
Whenever I'm at a stoplight I always look behind me (being a paranoid newbie) just to see if anyone is uncomfortably close. I look directly behind me and there's no one but this approaching car to the lane beside me (on the right). So when he pulls up in his crap-ass Honda he starts rolling his car back and forth and revving his engine. I thought to myself... should I risk it and strain the engine? When the light turned he had a head start on me, so I went ahead and let him go on and I shifted at 4000 r.p.m. until I hit 4th gear.
By this time he was a good 2-3 car lengths ahead of me and I can hear his shitty exhaust through his shitty pipe struggling. Anyway, without even thinking about the break-in thing, I just ripped the fucking throttle open and shifted at 6000 r.p.m. I cruised beside him for a few seconds, flipped him off with my clutching hand, opened up the throttle and I was gone! I got up to 78 mph on a long residential road! This is, by far, the most exciting thing I've done on my bike since I've had it.
Now only to fight that urge until 1000 miles.