The oil temperature guage held a steady 90 degrees C or so and crawled up slowly if we were in heavy slow-moving traffic. The highest temp I saw was just over the 100 mark. I never had a bike with a temp guage before so I was wondering if this was "normal" operating temp? The guage is calibrated from 70 to 160C so I presume 90-100 is okay but I'm curious. If I was to find myself stuck in very heavy city traffic on a hot day, how high should I let that oil temp go before I need to pull over and let it cool down?
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GS1150 - correct running temp?
Just back from a trip to the British GP at the weekend and the first chance I've really had to do a long journey on the GSX1100EF (GS1150 in US money I believe) and notice a few things that don't show up in my normal day to day use.
The oil temperature guage held a steady 90 degrees C or so and crawled up slowly if we were in heavy slow-moving traffic. The highest temp I saw was just over the 100 mark. I never had a bike with a temp guage before so I was wondering if this was "normal" operating temp? The guage is calibrated from 70 to 160C so I presume 90-100 is okay but I'm curious. If I was to find myself stuck in very heavy city traffic on a hot day, how high should I let that oil temp go before I need to pull over and let it cool down?Tags: None
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Re: GS1150 - correct running temp?
Originally posted by Rich1135Just back from a trip to the British GP at the weekend and the first chance I've really had to do a long journey on the GSX1100EF (GS1150 in US money I believe) and notice a few things that don't show up in my normal day to day use.
The oil temperature guage held a steady 90 degrees C or so and crawled up slowly if we were in heavy slow-moving traffic. The highest temp I saw was just over the 100 mark. I never had a bike with a temp guage before so I was wondering if this was "normal" operating temp? The guage is calibrated from 70 to 160C so I presume 90-100 is okay but I'm curious. If I was to find myself stuck in very heavy city traffic on a hot day, how high should I let that oil temp go before I need to pull over and let it cool down?
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Yeah, don't sweat it. Mineral oil starts to break down at 310 degrees F. As long as you're not at around 290F i'd call it a winner. (I'd add 30 degrees F for inner-bearing temperature and gauge differential.)
Tim
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My bike temperature runs exactly as Slowpoke described: about 40 minutes to warm up in normal Irish weather (cold) and a bit quicker in summer (slightly less cold). Last weekend was very warm, 25C or more, so it's good to know the bike was still staying within a normal temp range. I noticed the temp dropping the one time we ran into a heavy rain shower too. 8)
Thanks for the quick replies.
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i have no idea what is good or bad??? I do not have a gauge so it is one more thing I do not think about
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Temp gauge
Most of the miles that I put on my 1150 where in so. california, where in the summer it would be well over 100 degrees and my temp gauge would read 220 most of the time. I think you'll be ok.
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