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Welcome aboard Monkey, I agree with Tony, that's normal

Ahh Monkey!!

Good to have you here and like the others said, it's normal.

Cheers for the advice all. I used to ride a ZX6 a few years ago and that used to overheat like mad if you left it standing still. I guess those funny looking side radiators must be good then?

I'm glad I bought a VTR but I did like my BMW. It was an 1150GS and it ended it's life wedged under a Peugeot 106 with me underneath. That's when I figured it was time to stop rolling the dice 100 miles a day in all weathers.

So I told my other half that I'd only ride the Firestorm in "nice weather". Blatantly not the case though. Went for a ride through the Peaks (I'm in Sheffield) last weekend and it tipped it down. But I still came back smiling

Then spent an age blasting off cow shite with a hosepipe.


Ahhh, summer is here.

logan7 wrote:Hello monkey how is tripitaka, pigsy and sandy doing

Hehe, did anyone ever find out if tripitaka (sp?) was a he or a she? Still a much discussed debate over here.

And LMHO at you lot even having temperature gauges on your bikes. Oh, well I guess you need to know if it goes above Flamin' Freezing, so you can actually take it out for a ride... You should just disconnect the gauges & buy electric blankets to put over them instead. Hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe

Tripitaka was played by Masako Natsume who is female but the characters
Other Names: Boy Priest,
Holy fool,
Master (pron. Mosta).
and
Features: Knows about Buddhism,
Looks like a girl,
Speaks like a girl,
Wears lipstick,
For all intents and purposes is a girl
but was a boy

Why thank you Logan, for that amazing insight into what could've possibly been the worst television show ever made... that I couldn't help watching anyway...

From what I recall, I often tried to summon up a magic pink cloud to whisk me away from whatever terrible circumstances my little self got into way back in the olden days... Reckon I had it down pat, just never saw any results. Very sad.

Almost as sad, was that I stayed for the Kenny Everitt Video Show straight after and only recently purchased a dvd of same...

and he did it all in the best possible taste !!!!

how did i know you was going to say that

Yes kaz you said if first
kaz trying to get the last word in again

logan7 wrote:Yes kaz you said if first
kaz trying to get the last word in again

VTR1000KAZ wrote:As always boys!!!!!!
might be getting on a bit.. but my eyesight is till perfect !

till perfect?

Nice try, Kaz, but your "last edited" gives you away...

Haha, I think it only leaves that out if you edit it straight away, ie, before anyone else has viewed or posted.

I spotted it !!!!

Monkey! wrote:Hi folks,



Anyway, my question is this- my temp gauge doesn't seem to want to go up beyond about 1/4 way although to be fair I've not left it standing to overheat. Is that normal??

On the weekend I did about 20 kms on gravel ( unsealed ) roads, ( not really recommended, but ended up sort of fun) Being in the lower gears( 3rd-4th) brought the temp up to 1/2 after about 10 mins, but never went higher.
It usually sits around 1/4.