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Originally Posted by Ex-998
I wonder if Honda just designed their bikes to run a little hotter. I don't think there is anything wrong with a hot running bike as long as it runs.  |
That's one way to look at it (an optimistic way). But the quick way that temps rise and fall relating to speed is what tells the story. The RC is fine at speed (especially if you have the scoops) but anything slow and it's nervous time for me. I've seen fifty degree (F) changes in as little as twenty minutes (from a high altitude downhill to stuck in traffic in a hot valley). The bike is meant to be ridden...fast, and as a street bike the cooling system is deficient because you can't be moving all the time. True, they don't seize, but Honda gave us a cooling system that is barely adequate in stock form.
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