overheating in traffic

[TURBO200R4]

sometimes things pop into my head while sleeping or early morning so
with a fresh cup of coffee i thought that when a bike is new it probably would not get hot when it is brand new but it might be boarder line meaning maybe in arizona stuck in traffic at a hundred plus degrees might turn on the heat light and set a code.
anyway our bikes are not new so the radiators
may be slightly plugged
the engine idle may be off a little
the voltage may be down a little (the less voltage the slower the fan turns)
we maybe have a tune that runs a little more rich/lean
what i am trying to say is that maybe our bikes will no longer stand long lines of traffic and will over heat for what ever reason in long lines moving at 5 miles and stop and go traffic.
so what i am suggesting when doing this may be we could pull in the clutch and rev the motor to 2000-2500 this would pump more water thru the radiator and also bring the voltage up so that fan spins more rpm . this maybe will help and turn off the check engine light.
also maybe just being at a high temperature may trigger the heat sensor code without there being a real problem.
remember these are just thoughts not carved into stone. my only experience was a long time ago was at a fast food place in line at the drive through engine running bad and the heat light came on when i left revving engine and start to go it went out.
hth herman

 

[mo8414]

With air cooled bikes the idle being high makes a difference as to how hot they run. Obviously the more RPM's at idle the hotter the engine would get when not moving especially since its air cooled

Makes me wonder if the added RPM's on a water cooled bike would create more heat than is offset from the water pump moving more water and the fan getting more juice. It would be a good experiment to run and see if anyone was willing to do it.

The short fender on the front of these bikes isn't helping any especially when riding on wet dirt roads the radiator guard gets pluged up pretty bad.