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Klinker · Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 8:15 pm Post subject: But it's a dry heat...

Had to ride 350 miles of I-90 today - 200 of which were triple digits Fahrenheit. The K-heater was near the top of its comfort zone. Current conditions as of this post:

View earlier this afternoon:

Note misery gauge:

Just a whisker below 110° F.

I drenched my T-shirt in cold water and put the mesh jacket back on when I stopped for fuel. It was dry in twenty miles.

By the time I got to Rapid City the temp had dropped to 102° F, which felt downright chilly.
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SugarHillCTD · Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 8:24 pm Post subject:

You lucky ba$tard, you lucky, lucky ba$tard. Laughing

I was at a family/friends annual get together for the last 2 days- had to leave the bike home. NUTZ. Cage travel. Crying or Very sad

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jpberens1994K1100RS · Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 8:56 pm Post subject: hot hot hot

Should a properly tuned and maintained K run that hot at speed?
I mean even at 105 degrees?

Would running the fan on manual help at all?

Just curious.
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Klinker · Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 9:12 pm Post subject: Re: hot hot hot

jpberens1994K1100RS · Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 9:30 pm Post subject: hot stuff 105 or 109

Yeah, full click lower on the guage at 90 degrees seems right.

I guess I just did not think the system was that near the edge.
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dwerbil · Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 10:00 pm Post subject:

http://www.forestry-suppliers.com/product_pages/View_Catalog_Page.asp?mi=3471&title=Water+Cooling+Vest

Buy yourself one of the above cooling vests. I've bought several and handed them out to friends down here in Fort Stinkin' Desert Texas. The vest really works well to help keep you cool while riding in the heat.

A buddy and I did a bit under 300 miles yesterday sight-seeing on some Texas Hill Country back roads. Heat index was 107f. Wearing the cooling vests allowed us to wear our armored jackets and -still- feel comfortable.

Klinker, I lived around Sioux Falls for a lot of years some time ago. Where abouts are you located?
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Jim · Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 11:21 pm Post subject:

I'll have to look through the pix - I know I have some from the San Diego trip that show the temp on the ChargeX at 113 degrees F - but I don't think I snapped any of the temp gauge at the same time. If I recall correctly, it was either in the center or just a little above. Maybe the RS bikes run a little hotter.

Definitely getting one of the vests - thanks for the link!
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dwerbil · Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 12:06 am Post subject:

We met up Saturday at 8 a.m. Early riding temps were fine for some time, of course. Around noon, low 90f, I pulled out the two cooling vests, and we put them on under our jackets. Both vests were in a saddlebag inside a collapsible cooler with ice and drinking water. I soaked them both earlier -- they'll weight a few pounds when hydrated and will last a couple of days.

(Mr. Wizard here)....The ribbed vests have the same water absorbing crystals they've been putting in diapers -- it's a real stable synthetic, hydrophilic polymer. Can hold/absorb up to two hundred times its own weight in water.
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andyc · Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 9:49 am Post subject:

No pics of the temp gauge, but we have had a few days of those ambient temps. Mine tends to run between 1/2 and 3/4 of the range at highway speeds depending on the amount of traffic. If the airflow is disturbed by a lot of traffic (even if speed is high) the temp seems to rise quite a bit.
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Klinker · Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 9:55 am Post subject:

malcolmt · Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 9:58 am Post subject:

our summer will soon kick in, last year i found the best solution to running hot. Leave the lower half af the fairing in the garage.
The bike runs cooler and so do I.
Malcolm(t)
Joburg, Souf Africa
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Flying Duck · Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 10:36 am Post subject:

I just take a car and max out the AC. Very Happy

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laverda · Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 11:39 am Post subject:

Think of me, in Scotland, height of the summer here, & it's another day of constant drizzle. WTF ! Sad

I did tour Florida & Georgia one July & it was too hot tbh, I kept stopping at stores with air-con & standing there for half an hour. (Looks like there's no pleasing me eh !! ) Embarassed

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supercat1 · Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 1:21 pm Post subject:

you aren't riding it fast enough if your temp gauge is that high!
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dwerbil · Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 1:58 pm Post subject:

Klinker · Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 2:05 pm Post subject: