Just bought an almost new Honda VFR 1200 sports bike as a second bike. Lots of fun. Guess what I discovered?. It also gets hot and it is water cooled. That was a surprise to me. So do not let people that like to criticize our Harleys tell you that they are junk becasue get hot.

 

My St1300 was the hottest bike I have ever been on. makes the harleys feel almost cool. It of courst would go pretty good tho not hold a candle to the VFR 1200.

 

yes they also get so hot .. that's. why most of them are covered with Plastics.

 

My '04 R1 w/underseat exhaust was very hot as well. I learned the hard way when I took it on a road trip all the way down to Louisville/Lexington KY in 95 degree heat one summer!

 

My C50 was incredibly hot at a stop light - then the fan would kick in and throw even more hot air at me. My right leg was literally roasting and I would hold it as far away as possible - even when cruising along in street traffic. Once I got going to 40+, it would start getting bearable.

Yeah, the SG doesn't burn my leg off likg the Suzi did.

 

Please define what you mean by hot. My CBR will turn the fan on at 218 on a hot day sitting still and will usually hold at 220. The exhaust pipe does get hot, but thats what the heat shield is for. But I have seen as much as 250 oil temp on the fatboy in similar conditions, and oil pressure will drop to zero on the gauge.

 

Many of the full fairing bikes end up pumping a ton of heat at the rider which sucks. I know the first year Connie 14 had lots of complaints.

My decatted and tuned limited is as cool or cooler (comfort wise) than any of the full fairing liquid cooled bikes I've owned in stop and go traffic. I never noticed any of them being hot at speed except my Ducati with under seat exhaust. If that had cats I can't imagine how hot that paper thin seat would have been.

 

I agree with soniccbr. I have a 2011 CBR1000RR and down the road it is about 170 or 180 and in traffic the most I have seen is 223. I have seen oil temps at 290 on my Ultra (understand I am in Northern Va traffic). So it all depends on your definition of hot.

 

My hottest bike was my '08 Duc 1098S. The heat from those under pipe exhaust would hit my thighs. Alleviated by changing to full Termi exhaust.
I would see 235 degrees on the gauge in traffic. In fact on a hot summer day even moving at 25-30mph in the Manhattan tunnels, the gauge would still be at 190-220 degrees.
Some bike designs manage their engine heat dispersion? better than others I guess.
The felt engine heat on my '11 RK is minimal now that I got rid of the stock pipes/cat.

 

thats what a lot of people don't realize. water cooling is not for the comfort of the rider, it is for the engine. i don't care what kind of bike it is, combustion is hot, and that heat has to go somewhere.....