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How is it that breakin can't possibly have anything to do with premature wear? I'm getting a good start on my "nitwits I can safely ignore" list from the responses to my post.

Yeah, fine genius. But, what's your compression? After your "breakin", maybe it never was any better than the OP's.

OK, I found the post where he admits he did the motoman breakin procedure the first day he got the bike. It's on the second page. If Yamaha has any reason to suspect he did this (hell, he might even have told them!), they absolutely should not give him even the time of day. After all, there...

I think I recall that the OP stated somewhere that he used the motoman breakin technique. I'm surprised that no one has picked up on this. The compression rings might have been overheated enough that they lost some spring, explaining the low compression at the low cylinder pressure used in a...