I am soo there with you on knocking out the break-in miles where ya gotta constantly vary the throttle all the time to get proper break-in. That part is soo annoying, ugh!
You’re telling me! It was slow going, max speed was 43mph keeping under the rpm limit. It was harder than you think with the road at the end of the driveway being rural 55mph speed limit.
Biggest thing is just don't let the engine get too hot. They have more friction at first from all the metal shavings that need to get scraped off of mating surfaces. So if ya push it, you're likely to seize, or partially seize a cylinder and it'll score across the piston and rings... and some metal off the piston, from the scoring, will then disallow the rings to expand properly, so no longer sealing properly, etc.
How is vibration thru the bars? I'm assuming that engine is counter-balanced right? So vibes probably not that bad?
The bike has more vibration than others I have ridden. Not a deal breaker for me. Yes it is counterbalanced.
Have you swapped out for WIDE foot pegs yet? Sounded like the stock ones are stupid small.
I have the IMS super sport pegs sitting next to the bike ready to be swapped out. I haven’t been standing much, but I can see it being an issue.
Yeah definitely getchu some shields or barkbusters. Also if you plan to go offroad, don't forget to safety-wires your grips to the handlebar and throttle assembly.
Safety wires are part of the plan. Forgot grip glue in my order, so that shipped today.
Do a "Brake-Snake" cable from tip of rear-brake and gear-shift levers, on over to connection front up front on frame, to help deflect weeds/vegetations from being able to get jammed up in between those levers and your engine cases!
I’m going to have to look into this. I haven’t heard of it before. I had a stick under my rear brake lever yesterday. It wasn’t a big deal as I was heading up a slight grade at slow speed, but I could see that being an issue.
Get a rock skid plate, ASAP. Either is fine. Alum or CarbonFiber. You do NOT wanna have your oil drain plug get bashed-in and crack thru the bottom of the cases by some rock when you're out in BFE.
I put an aluminum “ricochet” plate on the bike as soon as I got it home from the dealer. Bike still didn’t have 1 mile on the odometer.
Make sure to keep watch on your chain tensioning right now during break-in, in the beginning lotta chain stretch will happen, more so when ya finally get to ride harder, of course.
I noticed it looked loose after I washed it yesterday. It’s on my to do list this weekend.
I seriously wouldn't even bother trying to ride it offroad in places you might hunt, UNTIL, you change out the tires for more dirt-worthy tires that re more like 95/5 dirt/street-legal, rather than the typical 50/50 or 60/40 type of tire they throw on them ususally. Also... out on the trail.. you WILL NEED rimlocks! OR... possibly you change out to mousse inner tubes if you don't want to put on rimlocks. Cause with tubed tires and NO rimlocks.. second you hit some decent whoops or rocks, your valve stem will get sheered-off. Rimlocks prevent that from happening at the low air pressures we need to run in dirtbike tires sometimes. But.. a mousse-type inner tube alternative could be a solution there, since ya figure no valve to shred off.
I have a brand new set of the tusk d-sport tires sitting next to the bike now.

The stock tires really aren’t bad. They are the Dunlop 605’s. They are more aggressive than I was expecting. I have been debating on getting rim locks or not. Sounds like they won’t be the worst idea to have for the small headache they give while changing tires.
Don't think you're gonna pack anything mounted onto the bike itself, except for maybe that fuel container. Think debone, head and hide in the field, onto the pack, onto your back, you onto the moto. Outie. Paniers not realistic for this application, IMO.
I was already planning to de-bone. I’ll have my kifaru, but I’m going to try meat in the rackless setup first before I decide they have to be on my back. I’m picturing my hunting as shooting a bear in a clearcut, getting the bike as close as possible, but still on the road. Then packing to the bike just like a truck. Then a short road jaunt home. I hunt a lot of private timber that allow public access. I’m not going to be “that guy” that ruins it for everyone by tearing up their property.
I’m waiting to swap everything out this weekend when my buddy that has raced MX his whole life can keep an eye over my shoulder and lend a helping, experienced, hand. The only thing I probably won’t touch are the tires for now.