Bike overheated; embarrasing
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Bike overheated; embarrasing
On vacation in Miami with a bunch of guys in my club and my bike overheated in traffic. She wouldn't start up until in cooled down. Took about 15 minutes. Embarrasing cause I'm the only one on a Harley, and the only one who overheated. To be fair, we were in bumper to bumper traffic for about an hour in the Florida heat, so it's not the bike's fault. Wondering if the 2014 or 2015s with the liquid cooled heads would still have this problem? Don't want this to happen again.
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How do you know the things is overheating? I ride in 100 degree weather all the time. On the open road, no problem I suppose, but going through in town traffic the ETMS or whatever that thing is always comes on at a light. I assume, it is managing the temperature fine. But how do you know? Its not like we have a water coolant temp gauge.
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How do you know the things is overheating? I ride in 100 degree weather all the time. On the open road, no problem I suppose, but going through in town traffic the ETMS or whatever that thing is always comes on at a light. I assume, it is managing the temperature fine. But how do you know? Its not like we have a water coolant temp gauge.
just because the cylinder shut off engages, it does not mean it is "managing" the heat. It is doing all it can to try to keep the heat down, but only can maintain a minimum engine temp by doing that, the max engine temp can get quite a bit hotter!
Last edited by harleycharlie1992; Jun 2, 2015 at 08:32 PM.
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something wrong with the bike.
It should have gone into parade mode.
I live in south Florida and have never had an issue.
Bike Week can be very hot in Daytona and you can be basically stopped in traffic for an hour doing Main Street and the bike never overheated.
(I'm guessing you were on A1A down by the Grove just south of Miami proper. Am I right)
It should have gone into parade mode.
I live in south Florida and have never had an issue.
Bike Week can be very hot in Daytona and you can be basically stopped in traffic for an hour doing Main Street and the bike never overheated.
(I'm guessing you were on A1A down by the Grove just south of Miami proper. Am I right)
Last edited by Jonesee; Jun 2, 2015 at 08:42 PM.
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I've gotten my bike hot quite a few times but never to the point of stalling.
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the othr thing that could have happened is the crank sensor got so hot hat it went to open, (No resistance in windings) Merceds crank sensors do this all the time, leave a fault code, we replace them because they are junk in the first place, harley ones aren't all that much better, but hot is hot, no matter what, but might want to run a scan to see if there is a code for the crank sensor
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How do you know the things is overheating? I ride in 100 degree weather all the time. On the open road, no problem I suppose, but going through in town traffic the ETMS or whatever that thing is always comes on at a light. I assume, it is managing the temperature fine. But how do you know? Its not like we have a water coolant temp gauge.
This was all shovel's & evo's which run cooler than these new big inch ball cookers you guys ride.