I too have wrapped my pipes. helped alot well my legs anyway! I ran WW on the track back in the day simply because if the rad. busts when you go down 20 other bikes wont slip in it or spread it around the track. I have seen a little drop in temp but not worth the hastle on the SH.

 

At idle: if your fan comes on in the appropriate temp range, brings the temps down to the point the fan then stops, your cooling system if fine.

You guys with digital temp guages, return it to ambient air and enjoy your great bike. Unless it's boiling over, you are doing a lot of unnecessary hand wringing (worrying) over this.

 

**drunk post** well, i don't even have a super hawk. i really want one, but i'm not financially able. all i know is the background i have. i'm not stressing anything, just carrying on a gentlemanly debate. i worked at a dyno shop in daytona beach for about a year and have had many years of performance automotive experience and i am just speaking from what i know. i am all about stretching the rules and finding new and neat ways of improving something above and beyond what the factory has already laid out. i have had a hand in many different breeds of cars. drag race, rolex 24, and scca race cars some of which making upwards of 1000 horsepower. i have also built and tuned high end japanese cars (skylines, supras, real silvias, etc.). i have had several bikes, but the superhawk cought my eye. i'm not a fan of the high strung 4 bangers or 3 bangers. i love the raw torque and beautiful sound of a nasty v twin. when i have the funds i WILL have a superhawk in the arsenal. for now my baby is the McNasty 240 that i never drive. i just enjoy helping people make their toys stand out in a crowd. even the little things matter to me. went to school to be an aircraft technician but never persued it after graduation. i'm by no means a master mechanic, but i have a vast knowledge in just about anything automotive, two wheel, and aircraft. too bad i have to be a newb and just another opinion.

 

Geez! I hope I didn't confuse anyone when I mentioned "fins" on the rads. I in no way meant "scoops" at all. Moriwaki makes radiator fins for the RC51 that look like this:



These have been proven to help direct cooling. I don't know how. Maybe it's an eductor effect as the wind blows by. I dunno. But they do work. If someone were to come up with something like that for the Superhawk, it might work. They have similar radiators and ducting out the sides. But then I've never had any cooling problems with my VTR at all....