What you have to remember about running in, is this is Yamaha's way of ensuring that as few bikes as possible come back with warrenty faults. They really don't care about the power you get from your bike etc etc.

I think the guy probably has some good points to make, and I've seen this web page discussed on a number of forums. There never seams to be a consensus though on his methods.

I bought a new Honda a few years ago, the dealer just told me to ride it like I would normally, but not to thrash it too much for the first 500 miles.

You'd have to be realy unlucky to have Yamaha inspect it closely in the event of a failure, chances are it would cost them more to gather the evidence & check with their lawyers than it would to just do the repair. In nearly all cases it's the dealer that makes the descision anyway!

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