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I definately suggest letting the bike warm up before taking off rather just starting, taking off, and and turn it right back off.
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I am also surprised to hear that many of you don't ride (or doesn't seem like) more miles than 25-50 a week.

 

yeah funny that, I brought my first bike for the convenience of getting around traffic, back then rides would take 30mins and i'd be at work on time. Now i seem to be getting later and later...... "sorry boss but the traffic was a beatch today"

Seriously though the beauty of the carby was you would know when it was warmed up.

 

Why is that not good for it? Yours is fuel injected just like mine and more than likely just like our cars. Do you let your car warm up? No you start it and drive it. Same thing here. Just don't rev the **** out of the motor for a couple miles and you should be fine.
I never understood (except for carbed bikes that need a little warm up time so they don't cough and sputter or die in an intersection) why people sit there and warm up an fuel injected bike. Just ride it. Is riding it immediately gonna prevent it from warming up somehow?

 

I work two miles from home, and I ride whenever I can. On the way home, I might do a few errands, but all within a five-mile radius. My bike is fuel-injected. No issues, except for MPG, which is pretty miserable with a lot of short hops (>40 MPG). On evenings/weekends I get in as many 50+ mile rides as I can,, but in colder temps I have gone through whole tanks of just in-town short hop riding. Oil has always looked fine, no chocolate milk yet.

Yet, I know it would be better to ride it for 30 miles or 30 minutes every time I turned it on. But it's no worse than doing the same with your car, which no one would think twice about. Just stay on top of your bike's oil, and try to take the long way home when you can, for the battery of nothing else.