I hav an l1, had it about a week and i've only ever ridden it on open/faster roads. yesterday i went through town in the sun and traffic. It's never overheated before and the temp guage is usually bang in the middle where it should be or below. So, i was sat in traffic, thought i saw abit of smoke/steam arround me, looked at the guage and it was wayy off the scale. so i pulled over and wached the bike empty all of the green coolant over the exhaust from the reservoir. I took the bike apart when recovery had taken me home and found it'd just been chucking it outta the breathe pipe because it'd got so hot. Then realised that the fan on the left side of the raiator doesnt move at all. So surely this is why it overheated as there was no movement of air around the radiator to cool it down when sitting in traffic?
I topped the coolant back up and the bike's fine but if you sit still on it and rev the bike when it's been run around abit the temp gradually keeps going up, but then as soon as i pull away again and air starts getting to the radiator it goes straight down really fast to where it should be.
When should the fan be running? What could be wrong with it?
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( I found the fan disconected above the radiator and re-connected it but this has made no difference!
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Is it bad to mix two colours of coolant together? Or is that just a selling con? haha I had a litre of green left in the bike and i stuck another litre of red in there to fill it back up!
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Both coolants were the same strength/ratio so surly it shouldnt matter?.. coolant is coolant..
Thanks!, Tom.
"If it's not broken, fix it 'till it is - If your not sure how it works, take it apart and find out - If it don't work when you put it back together.......look in the manual"