2 bars

[pragmatix]

Not a question just an observation, My bike had been parked in the sun all day and as i turned on the ignition I had 2 bars on the temp guage, went up to 3 in the space of a couple off hundred yards. Was normal for the journey home, just a fast warm up, any body else had this?

Pete A (in very sunny Pitlochry)

 

[Spanish Bob]

softee!

park up in the sun here for a couple of hours and then try to get on again without asbestos pants and you´ll see what happens.

Not an oilhead myslef, but bikes set up for one temperature and run in one very different tend to behave badly

 

[Mick Fagan]

My 1100GS when parked in shade but with an ambient temperature of around 38ºC has one bar showing when I turn the ignition on.

Then when taking off, I'm up the scale in a very short space of time.

I've noticed this over 4 summers and no harm done so I wouldn't worry too much if I were you, however, I wouldn't ever let my bike idle to get warm, even in Winter which it is now here.

Mick.

 

[Iain Hogg]

Happened to me too the other evening.

Made me think though, another few months and I'll need to ride 3 or 4 miles in the cold and dark before any bars show

Iain

 

[Davey B]

Bloody 'ell, can't please some people, winters coming 143 shoppings days to xmas and all that.
Iain is a glass half empty or half full??
Thinks yoursleves lucky, i've had the last 3 weeks in an air conditioned tin box watching the 2 wheelers go by. Bloody wives.