I'm the same, been riding bikes for 45 years, I break in my 2 strokes a few heat cycles and run them easy for the first 2 hrs. I look over everything after each ride, do all the maintenance. I watch this vids of people buy these machines new and just holding them wide fuc..ng open all day!! And they wonder why they break! Even on a good running broke in machine I would never hold it open full throttle more than 15 seconds at a time unless I was climbing a chute and had.no choice but just holding them down all day you are just going to kill stuff. Many people who buy these sleds have zero mechanical knowledge and what is going on when you do that. I'd bet 90% of all the failures are from abuse. It's no different than towing a trailer up a pass, if you hold her down to the floor for miles you are going to hurt stuff eventually.
