Now I see why they invented liquid cooling systems on motorbikes.....
My bike's been running rather lean lately due to a broke muffler and colder weather, so I've got extra oil in my gas this season.
Today I started at 5:00am off to work on my Avanti moped.... rained last night and there was a fine mist in the air at 5 :00 am....ok, so my bike runs rather sluggish when it's wet outside....she never quite wanted to go to 35mph.
I had a wonderful ( akk) dentist appointment today after work, so I had to ped quickly ....
This afternoon a cold front moved in...temps dropped...air got dry,sun was out...
Man, even with my broke muffler this India moped never ran faster ! It was the first time I ever got 45mph on the flats coming home...boy, I was stoked, this moped was finally running like a champ...
Ok, I got about 13 miles towards home and there was a Goddam detour in the road.....in NJ when a crew puts out a detour sign, that's all you get... one detour sign...absolutely no other help, no other signs to get you out of the rat-trap and back on an alternative route.
So, I have to turn around, climb one big-ass hill...and make my way out to the highway ...there I had to illegally run about a half mile up another big ass hill on the shoulder of a 65mph highway.... halfway up the hill I hear the motor going into it's over-heating mode...crap... ok, so I throttle down to nothing and basically limped the rest of the way home....
I was having a perfect run until I hit that detour.... wow, the best speed I ever had on this thing...and then the dreaded over-heating monster comes along....shit...
I guess I'm just going to have to learn to just give her half-throttle or less on the hills,even if she only limps her way up....
seems to me that when the air is running pass the motor, she can keep up those fast speeds..but on the hills there must not be enough wind cooling the thing off and she begins to heat and bog down.... now I know why they put liquid cooling systems on bikes
For the hell of it, after my dental appointment I took some Folger's coffee cans and kind of made me some airscoops and wired them on the sides of my motor....don't know if they will work..looks kind of stupid...but, I'll give it a try, anything to keep the thing running cooler ought to help,yes ?
I'll try them out on the Wednesday trip to work...I'll let youse know how they work...wish me luck :)