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Old Aug 19, 2013 | 02:11 PM
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Default Water cooled armageddon
Anybody see the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse materialize today? Hell I haven't even seen a rant post yet.

Its funny that none of the literature actually says water cooled but I guess its only in the head around the exhaust port so HD will still consider it a mostly air cooled engine.

Its a nice execution anyway with the radiators hidden in the lower fairings and the hot air exhausting out the side.

I think for some guys in the really hot climates this may be a welcome option.
 
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Old Aug 19, 2013 | 02:33 PM
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I started a thread in the engine forum. I was thinking that it might have been a fan.
 
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Shhh, don't say "water cooled". Harley has cleverly avoided using that term, and the associated risk of offending their air-cooled traditionalist customers, by calling it "Twin Cooled".
 
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Old Aug 19, 2013 | 02:50 PM
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For a better idea of how it's implemented...:

2011 Harley-Davidson Water Cooled Engine US Patent
 
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Old Aug 19, 2013 | 02:52 PM
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Twin cooled...the obvious double entendre.
 
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Old Aug 19, 2013 | 03:10 PM
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If it is a improvement some will buy the bikes and like the changes or post on here its crap,,, will always be lots of used low mile air cooled bikes floating around..
 
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Liquid cooled is what I heard, and the liquid is oil from my understanding. no radiator
 
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Uh oh, one more puddle underneath parked Harleys......LOL
 
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Liquid cooled is what I heard, and the liquid is oil from my understanding. no radiator
What good would transferring more heat to the oil do, without a heat exchanger (radiator) to cool it down?
 
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The pics I saw it looked like radiators but they are being ambiguous in their press releases so far.
 
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