Re: [emrat:5316] tiger 800 heat

Interesting to note that BMW's direct competition with the Triumph Tiger 800 XC uses a vertical 2-cylinder, transverse mounted, liquid-cooled motor with chain final drive.  By the way, numerous BMW Airhead owners have referred to their bikes as ankle burners!  Wayne E.

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From: "Steve Smith" <shmitty74@gmail.com>
To: "Everman, Wayne" <emrat@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 4:08:23 PM
Subject: Re: [emrat:5308] tiger 800 heat

Horizontally is too wide. 90 degrees is better for cornering clearance. Some archaic Italian company comes to mind. :-)

Steve

On Jul 29, 2014 12:24 PM, "Curtis Graves" <ikonoklass@gmail.com> wrote:

Ural? Dnepr?  ; )

On Jul 29, 2014 8:42 AM, "'Martin Albright' via EMRAT" <emrat@googlegroups.com> wrote:

My experience has been that any motorcycle with a water-cooled engine is going to FEEL hotter than a bike with an air-cooled engine.

I don't know if this is because the water cooling allows the engine to run at a higher temperature safely, or if it is because the fan blows through the radiator and then onto the rider's legs, but it's something I noticed on both my 2001 Thunderbird (triple) and also on my wife's Suzuki Intruder 800, which are the only water cooled bikes I've ridden regularly.

If I was to guess I'd say air-cooled engines probably get hotter but with no fan to blow that hot air across your legs, you don't feel it as much.  Although on some of my older 4 cyl Japanese UJM bikes the engine would get very, very hot and I could feel it on my knees, especially in slow traffic.

I think the best way to keep an air cooled engine from getting too hot would be to have each cylinder in a separate case that sticks horizontally out to the side to maximize air flow around the cylinder.

Now, let me think a bit...what company is it that does that??

Martin


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On Sat, 7/26/14, Brian Weberg <bw26354@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: [emrat:5290] tiger 800 heat
 To: "emrat@googlegroups.com" <emrat@googlegroups.com>
 Date: Saturday, July 26, 2014, 2:22 PM

 Hello all you
 Tiger 800 and 800 XC riders out there.  This morning I took
 a test ride on an 800 and was loving it until about half
 way through the ride when I began to feel like my right leg
 was on fire.  Lots of heat emanating from the triple. 
 Have any of you confronted this issue?  
  Thanks, Brian
 W.



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