That temp sounds normal to me under that circumstance - crawling along for half an hour will raise the temp for sure. As the summer progresses and temps climb higher this is where synthetic oil begins to shine as it can withstand the higher extremes far better than dino oil.

An oil cooler can't hurt anything either. I plan on installing one in the next month or so. You increase your oil capacity by almost half a quart I believe and of course the extra radiating capabilities helps you to shed heat even when moving slowly it still helps a little bit.

 

my bike is running the same way i live in southern new mexico and it got up to 95 degrees out and i was riding around city and my rear cylinder would shut out after 20 mins of riding on the highway it works great but i even had to shut down parade mode and it still was doing it, what could it be??? is it because i have the baffles out?? or could it be a thermostat issue...any advise??

 

Thermostat??
these are air cooled bikes.....
unless you have a thermostatically controlled OIL cooler.

it may be running too lean from de-baffling your pipes.
the head temps are getting really hot and the ecm is trying to cool it off with the "parade" mode, you could fry your motor disabling that function....

 

i have started tracking my temp for 1000 miles to have a base line on how well an oil cooler drops the temp of the bike.

the bike is a 09 ultra with lowers and a fork baffle. all stock except for V & H basic slipons

morning ride 77 degs it takes 25 min to get to 230 at 70mph then stays there for the rest of my ride
the afternoon ride yesterday 110f on the xepress way took 15 miles to reach 230 and at 35 miles at 70 it rose to 235. it did not go any higher

todays ride will be without the fork baffle. then the next test will be to remove the doors from the lowers, it looks like there will be more air without them.

 

Puhlease! Parade mode will only engage when the engine is idling, not on the highway while moving. If you truly disabled the parade mode and your rear cylinder was still shutting down, you should park it immediately, you have a serious problem. Not to be rude, but if you don't know you don't have a thermostat, you probably can't even fathom what the parade mode is supposed to do. Sorry for the rant but I believe before you operate a piece of equipment you should at least know some of the basics.

 

I have a 00EGC, stage one, true duals, SS 510G cams, PCIII and a dyno and my scoot runs right about the same temp for that outside air temp, I think the book calls for 210 - 230 as norm for mine. A few weeks ago it was running about 245 with a outside air temp at 95 degrees.

 

Since I put an oil cooler,syn oil on my 05 with stage one and dealer download have not seen temps over 220 and it gets plenty hot around here and out back roading.

 

i didnt mean that it shuts out when it's driving i mean when i come to a light it shuts out without me twisting the throttle back