running In why bother

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Went to the Berlin factory in 1998, and had a tour of the production line, and at the end of the line every bike built is filled with fluids and tested on a dyno cum rolling road, the guy who operates it does the following.

turns the key, thumbs the starter and full throttles the bike in every gear to max revs, when he gets it in top hold it at full throttle for 1 min, thumbs the kill switch. he gets off, bike shoots out into the dismantle and crating dept.


The chief roadtester does the following
turns the key (cold engine), thumbs the starter, first gear and goes, simple.
:mmmm :(
 
Much the same with new cars, the guys that move them around and deliver them thrash the shit out of them.
 
same at guzzi factory.

at ducati, young herberts thrape new bikes round the car park at alarming speed in t-shirts :p
 
Just as well I spent my running in period trying to keep up with Mike and Pat on TKC's........
 


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