Long time idling

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Last night, I was leaving (Or trying to) a fair/concert/ball tournament along with many many thousands of people. Traffic inched along or was stopped for several miles until you hit the main highway. My bike sat and idled basically for well over an hour... probably more like an hour and a half. I tried to kill it a couple times to maybe let it cool between moves, but it seemed to get a bit hard to start with some pre-detonation going on just as it started. SO.. I just left it running and worried about: 1. The battery staying charged up at just idle. 2. The oil smoke coming off of my motor from every drip or splash from 300 miles of riding earlier in the day.

First off, I must tip my hat to Geezer and his Regulator/Rectifier unit. The bike apparently charged just fine at idle and kept me going. I have all stock lights and no LED's, so the power drain was all there. Thanks Tony.

Second... when I finally made it out to the highway, there were several hundred cars that.. you know.. just HAD to be passed! I don't know if the bike was just letting me know that it was glad to be back on the highway.. (Yeah.. a bike showing personality thing.. lol) or that having the motor that hot... was a good thing for performance. The motor felt like it had 10-15 hp more than normal and was passing everything in sight with a VENGEANCE!!!

The point of this is mainly that I am now not worried about it sitting there idling while I do a carb synch. Yeah, I'll still use a fan on it, but if I had it running more than 10 minutes or so before, I would shut it off, let it cool a bit, then try again later. The pipes didn't change any colors... so all is good!

I hope you all have a good weekend, and that your "Honey do" list doesn't make your labor day weekend become labor.

Tod

[Crazcnuk]

I don't even use a fan when setting the carbs. It really doesn't do anything, think grain of sand in the Sahara!

If you think about it, these bikes will cruise, at well over speed limit, through 100+ temps with no issues. I don't think it gets really hot at idle, in my driveway with ANY breeze at all.

I just don't take an hour to synch them.

Last year, I was in a toy run parade that was poorly set up. It was over 90 out and the parade went for several miles at less than 5mph.

About 3/4 of th eway through, the ol bike was getting pretty warm. It stalled at one point, so I just sat and rejoined the parade at the back.

Was wishing I had an oil cooler for that one!

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I just don't take an hour to synch them.

I would hope not

I don't really bother with a fan either, plus the last time I synced I don't think I had the bike fully warm as the idle went up about 2-300 by the end of the post sync ride, and stayed there.