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Old May 18th, 2018, 07:24 AM   #9
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By the way, thanks for doing this writeup. These things are old hat to a lot of us and we sometimes forget how valuable they can be to new riders. Kudos!

Also, you asked a question that nobody answered. Yeah, it's normal to have a bit of metal in the first oil change on a brand-new bike. All part of the break-in process.

The last time I bought a new bike (my GSX-R) I used the Calsci method (http://motorcycleinfo.calsci.com/NewBike.html) which involves, in part, riding about 50 miles or so and then doing your first oil change. The dealer I bought the bike from was 70 miles from home so I just bought oil in advance, grabbed an OEM filter when I picked up the bike and drained the factory oil as soon as I got home.

It was pearly from suspended metal bits. The factory method would have had that stuff floating around in the case for 500 miles. Made a believer out of me. Bike has run flawlessly for 14,500 miles so far and I didn't have to do that ridiculous hundreds-of-miles-at-low-rpm thing that Kawi asks for.
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