Sturgis of 2010 we rode to the Badlands & on the way back to town I wasn't sure I was gonna make it. I reached into my bags going 70 & grabbed a HOT bottle of water & choked it down. That was one miserable ride!

 

Newer touring models have a limp mode, which means the computer turns off the fuel to the back cylinder when temps reach a certain point when you are idling and not moving. As soon as you touch the gas, the fuel is started back up and both cylinders are firing again. It's to help cool the back cylinder off.


With a water cooled engine, letting it idle keeps the coolant flowing and can help cool it off, if you get out of the heat. With an air cooled engine, you have to turn it off. The only time the engine is getting "coolant" is when you are moving.

Again, I pulled the dipstick out...left it in the hole, but it was sticking out, so as to let the heat escape. This was in the shade with the engine off, of course. and It dropped about 50 degrees in 15 minutes.

~Joe

 

Unless you've been in this sort of heat you can't even fathom it. It's hard to imagine. It's like riding through a blast-furnace is about all I can say. Yes the humidity is 5% but hey it's just HOT beyond words. Arizona could be a proving grounds for motor oils... My place is in the mtns at 5600' east of Kingman, so it's much cooler than Phoenix, etc. I'd run a straight 60wt synthetic if I was in southern AZ. Some areas break into the 120's in summer.

When riding in this kind of heat you stop every 30 minutes and chug a cold quart of Gatorade. Then do it again in another 30 min. You do this all day. And you'll never have to pee either believe it or not.

 

Yesterday it was 103 and I was cooking. The hottest I have ever rode in was 112. I try real hard not to put in full days when it gets over 100. A few hours then off of the bike for the day.

 

My hats off to you.

 

I rode in it but it was purely by accident. I knew it was going to be hot but not 117 hot. I did take breaks for water and the sunscreen is a requirement.
I keep telling myself when it's cold and the eastern US is fighting blizzards, we'll be riding in 70-75 degrees with a t-shirt or light jacket.

Honestly, from October to May it will be absolutely incredible. January and February will be cold, but this is why we suffer the violent heat.

God Bless our troops who live daily in this mess.

 

Went for a ride Saturday morning to get some breakfast up in Cave Creek. Pretty hot then too.

 

I would take the heat to the cold any day!

 

I know, doesn't matter when I check my oil warmed up or sitting around it still shows on the hot reading regardless. I used my laser temp gun on the block surface and it will show 112-114. Apparently that's hot enough not to get a fluctuation from/my oil dipstick? How crazy is that.

 

Living here for almost forty years I'm not sure I can agree with you, the heat makes you feel like your suffocating, that never happens when I'm in cooler climates but either extreme is unfavorable.