wanted stock seat..front rotors..fuel p-cock
04-04-2011, 09:07 PM
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Got a stock seat, no tears and pretty good shape all around. Shoot me an offer, I won't ever use it again.
This is it on the bike it came off. The cowl is spoken for. It looks like this all the way back, though.
This is it on the bike it came off. The cowl is spoken for. It looks like this all the way back, though.
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04-05-2011, 08:56 PM
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Ha! believe it or not the pre-Koolaid cooling system did not leak a drop, so I still have it. PM me if you want either side radiator, though as you can see they are pretty bunged up. I binned the shroud, so it is rads only.
04-07-2011, 01:24 PM
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Can you tell me anything about your radiators? Are those covers or what? Thanks, Wolf
04-07-2011, 10:22 PM
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Its just a cover/ shroud over the radiator to draw air into the radiator to aid in cooling. They are the stock radiators.
7, you are thinking of a bike equipped with fairings. The fairings are what directs the air in the manner you describe. On my bike, the fan pushes like you said, but the shroud brought air in from the outside, and forced it to the inside (with enough velocity to kill many, many bugs...). On a 100 degree ambient day my temp gauge would run in the middle with no fan, so long as I did not stop. It would keep the fan off even at in-town speeds, just not when stopped. Below 40 degrees, I would actually block it off, since it would overcool the bike and it would hardly warm that radiator during my commute to work. It actually worked really well, since a radiator does not care which way the air is flowing through it, and, since I did not have the fairings to deflect the air differently, this is the way it worked. I used it originally since I did not have a fan at all (lost in the original wreck). I can say it made a large difference since I ran the bike both with and without the shrouds when the fan was off, and cooling was greatly improved with the shroud installed. Since re-introducing the fan, I have taken the shroud off.
7, you are thinking of a bike equipped with fairings. The fairings are what directs the air in the manner you describe. On my bike, the fan pushes like you said, but the shroud brought air in from the outside, and forced it to the inside (with enough velocity to kill many, many bugs...). On a 100 degree ambient day my temp gauge would run in the middle with no fan, so long as I did not stop. It would keep the fan off even at in-town speeds, just not when stopped. Below 40 degrees, I would actually block it off, since it would overcool the bike and it would hardly warm that radiator during my commute to work. It actually worked really well, since a radiator does not care which way the air is flowing through it, and, since I did not have the fairings to deflect the air differently, this is the way it worked. I used it originally since I did not have a fan at all (lost in the original wreck). I can say it made a large difference since I ran the bike both with and without the shrouds when the fan was off, and cooling was greatly improved with the shroud installed. Since re-introducing the fan, I have taken the shroud off.
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04-09-2011, 11:56 AM
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Actually, I didn't really like how it looked, even though it was really functional. Kind of made it look like an airplane or something. The shrouds really disrupted the front profile, and looked really weird. So the fan was the answer, even though it does not take a lot to make the stock fan a puller fan.
And on a naked bike, aerodynamics are about the least of your concerns, LOL
And on a naked bike, aerodynamics are about the least of your concerns, LOL
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