desertrefugee wrote:Dang. I just finished breakfast and now you guys have me craving pie!
And of course this all relates back to GL temperatures perfectly. If you appreciate good pie on a nice summer run, you'll probably stop for pie and coffee before it gets too hot, eat and let the motor cool down, then get back on the road. Thirty minutes later, you'll need a quick stop to pee and the motor gets another rest. So, pie helps keep GL temperatures down.
Genius!
I always have at least two cups of coffee, so unfortunately, those pee breaks are more often for my generation......
Arbuckle+Mountain+Fried+Pies.jpg (48.44 KiB) Viewed 155 times
-Rodger- all it takes for evil to prosper is the want of a few good men to do nothing-Edmund Burke The question is not how much time do you have, it is what you do with the time that you haveGandalf "One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation." Fred Rodgers "it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert" ancient saying
78 constantly modified/customized since 1978, BOTM June 2015 de-evolving this very moment viewtopic.php?f=30&t=65511
76 Ltd "cookies bike" ALMOST DONE
79 project, finished, FOR SALE
'86 1200 (Beth's)(FOR SALE) with motorvation sidecar (sidecar sold) , July 2017 BOTM
'17 HD Road king and 08 HD Heritage softail (Beth's) (FOR SALE). I guess you can say we have MBS
CYBORG wrote:My Fan kicks in at around 200-210. I have a real gauge. Thermostat opens around 190. Drops to around 160. These are running down the road numbers
After running around town my thermostat housing was at 235 degrees. Fan still not kicking on. New thermostat. I'm thinking the fan switch is the problem.
-zipster
zipster wrote:To close this, it was the fan thermostat. Bike runs at normal temp now.
Are you sure? Whether or not the fan runs at highway speed does not have any impact on operating temperature. If you're running 20+MPH, that's more air than the fan would move.
- Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It's about learning to ride in the rain.
I know this started out as a discussion of highway temps and wings, but I had a different issue. On a hot day, once you hit some traffic you're going to need the fan to kick on, in my case it was engaging 40 degrees too high. I disagree about 20 mph airflow being enough to cool a gl on a hot day without a fan. Maybe 45.
Zipster