Oil Pressure/Temperature guage????

[flynrider]

If you get the opportunity, shoot a reading on the spark plug area where Honda went to great lengths to keep temps down with oil galleries and bolt on finning.

This was taken after a 30 minute ride and while idling for maybe a minute or so. (The engine is running.) The oil cooler read 220°F and the ambient air temperature was ~80°F. (You can see how the mirrored cam caps don't register properly due to the reflective nature of their finish.)

This was taken after a 30 minute ride and while idling for maybe a minute or so. (The engine is running.) The oil cooler read 220°F and the ambient air temperature was ~80°F. (You can see how the mirrored cam caps don't register properly due to the reflective nature of their finish.) This is really neat. Thanks! Synthetic 5W40 T6 oil all day.

I feel really bad whenever i get stuck on a long left hand turn light and can feel the heat from the motor. Do you guys think its better to shut the engine off for a bit or keep it running in idle when you're stopped for a long light?

Around here I'm usually riding in temps of 100F or more for about half the year. I don't bother shutting off the engine unless I'm going to be sitting still for 10 min. or more.

One of the only times I overheated a bike was waiting in a long line for an emissions test on a hot day. I couldn't shut off the bike because the battery was toast. It was about 30 min. and when I finally got to the front of the line, the bike failed the test because it was overheated. This was on my carbed CB750 and the first clue that it was overheating was that the idle would start to get rough and lower than normal. Not sure if you'd see that on a fuel injected, computer controlled CB11.