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My oil temp gauge pegged out on a long ride and let me know to pull over to let it cool for a while. Come to find out, I had an intake leak and was running too lean causing it to overheat.
Originally Posted by Stiggy
Come to think of it, had an OIL TEMP guage really ever affected your ride? Have you ever not ridden because of what it read? Or do you run it just to monitor just in case for some reason it inexplicably started to rise?
Come to think of it, had an OIL TEMP guage really ever affected your ride? Have you ever not ridden because of what it read? Or do you run it just to monitor just in case for some reason it inexplicably started to rise?
Maybe its just fun to watch in traffic jams.
Funny,I had asked this question before in other oil temp guage threads and never got an answer.
Funny,I had asked this question before in other oil temp gauge threads and never got an answer.
My answer is the oil temp gauge doesn't affect the way I ride. It's useful to monitor how the bike operates, much more than the outside temp and that's about it.
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