Heat guards

[Charles S Otwell]

Mary do you have the most problem when your riding or when your sitting in traffic? I can't remember but did we discuss what type of windshield you have (they are not all created equal)? Can you post a pic of your bike as it is right now?

[Magnum Magna]

There is a yarn spin wheel store not for from you.  I am sure my wife would like to stop in the shop then swing by with my temperature gauge to compare our bikes.

[Jester]

Magnas make that much heat that it has to be re-directed? lolol!
1) I go fast enough that the heat never reaches me - we never get real hot up here
2) when its sooo cold my finger go numb, I stop and lay my fingers and hands on the cylinders - and they take a while to warm up!!
Where you at Mary?

See I just put on heated grips to avoid such situations....   although with the Magna, I did on several occasions warm my hands on the crank case

[hootmon]

2) when its sooo cold my finger go numb, I stop and lay my fingers and hands on the cylinders - and they take a while to warm up!!

See I just put on heated grips to avoid such situations....   although with the Magna, I did on several occasions warm my hands on the crank case

My hands are what get's coldest in cold weather.. At stoplights I bend my fingers and place the non-palm sides on the tops of the rear cylinders to warm them up.. It's not much heat, but it helps.

[connor]

I understand what Mary is saying.

I live in Cyprus in the eastern med and July, August and September here it gets hot hot hot.  The air temperature coupled with the heat given off by the tarmac and engine heat at times is quite unbearable if travelling below, say, 35 mph.  Above that, say over 50mph its not so bad.  Town driving and crawling in traffice during those hot months is a no no...I just avoid it if I can.

Added to the heat here we get periods of high humidity which is just downright horrible.
Early mornings and evenings though...beautiful.

As much as I would like to ride during the day I just avoid it until evening comes if I possibly can. We have several bikes and this is not something peculiar to the Magna..its the same on all of them.

[MarylandMagnav45]

2) when its sooo cold my finger go numb, I stop and lay my fingers and hands on the cylinders - and they take a while to warm up!!

See I just put on heated grips to avoid such situations....   although with the Magna, I did on several occasions warm my hands on the crank case

My hands are what get's coldest in cold weather.. At stoplights I bend my fingers and place the non-palm sides on the tops of the rear cylinders to warm them up.. It's not much heat, but it helps.
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Your fingers can get cold in Florida? 

[mkgarvin]

Thanks for the support Connor.  If I can't get this problem figured out, I just may have to ride with my hubby in the easy chair on  his Valkyrie Interstate.  I guess that's not such a bad alternative, eh?!!!

[Magnum Magna]

I don't know but would a liquid cooled twin be a little cooler on the legs.  The head is not as wide so is a little further away from your legs.

[Sledge Hammer]

yes....

COME UP NORTH TO ROCHESTER, NY...and you'll LOVE that heat.

Even my home state of maryland, heat welcomed 9 months of the year

I was able to remain in the metro Atlanta area and still loved the heat off the engine. When I left for work yesterday, it didn't seem to be all that cold outside in the driveway, so I went with my uninsulated leather jacket and uninsulated gloves, left the balaclava and chin skirt at home, and dearly wished I had not been so stupid within two minutes of getting underway. When I reached the highway, my neck felt like it was going to freeze solid even before my fingers finished going numb. Then I got to ride along at 75 mph to keep pace with all the four-wheelers for the next five minutes or so. When I finally got to work, I put my gloved hands on the engine casing just to warm them up enough so that I could get some feeling back in them without burning them first. Only when I got to my desk and checked the local airport temperature did I realize that it had been about 27° for my ride. I was just giddy that my throat wasn't frostbitten.

[Sledge Hammer]

Added to the heat here we get periods of high humidity which is just downright horrible.
Early mornings and evenings though...beautiful.

You would feel right at home where I live Connor. We, too, get ferocious heat and steambath humidity during the summer in Georgia (the US state, not the Eurasian country). I used to work with a man who hailed from Sudan who told me that after growing up in the 115-125°F degree heat of Sudan that 100°F in Georgia would be refreshing, or so he thought. Then he made the move, and he said he thought he would die of heatstroke during his first summer here and that he just felt as if he were suffocating.

I am going to miss winter when it's over.

[MarylandMagnav45]

yes....

COME UP NORTH TO ROCHESTER, NY...and you'll LOVE that heat.

Even my home state of maryland, heat welcomed 9 months of the year

I was able to remain in the metro Atlanta area and still loved the heat off the engine. When I left for work yesterday, it didn't seem to be all that cold outside in the driveway, so I went with my uninsulated leather jacket and uninsulated gloves, left the balaclava and chin skirt at home, and dearly wished I had not been so stupid within two minutes of getting underway. When I reached the highway, my neck felt like it was going to freeze solid even before my fingers finished going numb. Then I got to ride along at 75 mph to keep pace with all the four-wheelers for the next five minutes or so. When I finally got to work, I put my gloved hands on the engine casing just to warm them up enough so that I could get some feeling back in them without burning them first. Only when I got to my desk and checked the local airport temperature did I realize that it had been about 27° for my ride. I was just giddy that my throat wasn't frostbitten.

I'm really in shock considering Atlanta I think would be so warm.  Then again, I guess the mornings are still cold right?

[dgc67]

You know they sell insulating material to put in cars under the carpet to keep exhaust heat out of the car and they sell a "tape" to wrap around exhaust to keep the heat down.  I am wondering if wrapping the exhaust (from where they bolt to the head down to where they can be seen) and also placing a layer of the insulating material (it is pretty thin) between the head/exhaust and frame on the back cylinders would help the problem?

I have been thinking I might do this to my project bike as it goes back together.

I agree with you on the heat coming from the back cylinders.  In Houston traffic it gets pretty darn hot.  Not too hot for me to ride of course! 

[hootmon]

I don't know but would a liquid cooled twin be a little cooler on the legs.  The head is not as wide so is a little further away from your legs.

My wife rides a VT1100C2 Sabre (V-twin) and I would say it throw as much or more heat off than my Magna (My wife would say more)..
Part of which is because the rear exhaust pipe comes out so close to the right leg.

[Magnum Magna]

I agree pipe placement would make a difference. 

I am thinking the Honda 750s could be cooler on the legs then bigger bikes where their pipes are placed.

[lragan]

I spent summers growing up on the top of a John Deere or Case tractor.  Maggie is cool by comparison, so I suppose I am less affected.  Also a whole lot less dusty