Heh, yah, getting used to the single cylinder is taking a bit of time, I'll give you that.

I'm an inquisitive fellow and all that, so if anyone can tell me why it does that I'd appreciate it.


Nick - After some consideration, I didn't go for the thrashing technique and just followed the owners manual but virtually everyone had said that an oil change was a good idea, so that's why I did it. There were some metal specks in the oil, though very small. You'd probably call it a fine dust more than anything else.

I've been impressed with the pick-up when accelerating (though after a GT550 that may not be so hard, heh) and it's clipped along at 70mph quite happily, still under the 4.5k rpm that they set for the first 600 miles (1,000km).