posted July 28, 2007 08:41 AM
hot shins? hmm.... maybe I need to pull the fairings and look closer, perhaps something is dislodged? mine seems to pump out heat right by the cases on both sides...
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quote:You could always put another cooling fan somewhere...
Oh sure, that would just pump more hot air onto your legs.
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Ted
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posted July 29, 2007 05:09 AM
add plastic to keep the heat off of the leg/shin area and the heat will exit somewhere else.
physics, plain and simple. the heat has to go somewhere.
more hp=more heat.
Maybe my ST1100 isnt such a bad old bike after all, 200,000 + miles and still going. without hot ankles I might add.
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posted July 29, 2007 07:21 PM
Early I mentioned that I has no heat at all on my shins and ankles, but now that you've got me paying more attention to it, I noticed just a slight warmth on my right shin. I hadn't even noticed until now. Anyway, on my bike it is very minimal. My bike has 3300 miles on it now and it's definitely running cooler than before. When I'd run the revs high, it use to get hot with temp gauge showing 3 or 4 bars, but now usually running 1 bar, possibly 2 if I'm riding aggressively. I only see 3 bars when sitting at stop lights.
Nathan
San Francisco, CA
Concours 14 ABS
00' K1200LT
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'08 Concours 14 ABS
'00 K1200LT
posted July 29, 2007 10:27 PM
Edited By: TedG on 30 Jul 2007 10:03
I have been riding in 100 degree weather. It is not like the thing is cooking you. When I rode my 10 today I noticed some heat also.
Ozzy, find a way to ride a C14 and you will go home and sell that ST1100.
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posted July 30, 2007 08:02 AM
interesting... I suppose I'll have to pull it apart and see. there must be something not installed properly on mine.
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posted July 31, 2007 12:35 PM
fish, I paid attention to where the heat is coming from. It is coming out the side vents and wrapping around your legs in the turbulance. The holes in front of the pegs are sealed off.
posted July 31, 2007 03:19 PM
nope... I have a different issue... mine's been putting heat out onto my ankles from between the engin and the fairing. I just finished taking the side fairings off.. found that the pieces of foam that should block the heat weren't installed correctly... repositioned everything so I'm ready to give it a shot and see how she runs now... seems as though this should have done the trick! :THUMBUP
right side of the bike has a bit of foam that's supposed to wrap around a hose and is supposed to be cable tied in place. cable tie was missing and foam was hanging loose in there.
I'll post up some pix later....
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posted July 31, 2007 06:05 PM
Maybe you have something there, my right side is hotter. Do you have to pull off the faring to see the problem?
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posted July 31, 2007 06:25 PM
Alrighty... back from the ride... situation is improved, but still not perfect. I guess I'll have to spend some time taking the bike apart and making sure the rubber gasket around the engine is put together properly.
Ted... it's easy to take off.. you only need to remove the middle fairing to see the problem. Remove the glovebox/ashtray thing (2 phillips screws) to expose the one fairing screw you need to get to. The remove the fairing screw from the part the meets the black dash trim, the allens holding the cover over the battery tray and then the 3 bigger fasteners that hold the deflector thingy in place. The pull fairing backwards towards back of bike.
You can see all the foam at that point..
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posted July 31, 2007 08:44 PM
Its the year round winter package...no shin warmth here, only my right inner thigh.
Keep in mind, this a a prototype year, the 2nd year model will be mo betta and improved.
posted August 01, 2007 05:27 AM
GTR... you might want to take that right fairing off (as described) and check to make sure the cable tie is in place (as described)
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posted August 01, 2007 10:14 AM
I just looked at mine and without taking off the farings (I am at work) there are gaping holes in the way it is sealed up. Mine is coming apart and getting fixed as soon as possible.
posted August 01, 2007 03:01 PM
I just removed the faring and I see what fish is talking about. I put in a nice black zip tie and made sure the foam sealed as good as possible, It is a weird fit around the rubber engine shroud.
I don't know what happened but all that emission crap just mysteriously disappeared.
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posted August 01, 2007 08:23 PM
It seems that the missing emissions junk has smoothed out the bike even more. It looks like they were connecting #2 and #3 and maybe #4. Also the red line was full of fuel. It mysteriously is plugged at the tank now. Which means I can fill it up further.
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