Denny

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Looking at it from a different point and using this example. Over here, February is the hottest month of the year. I have been attending the same event since 1978 in absolutely glorious sunshine and annoying rain. The run is a round trip of 1521 miles from home. The run consists of boring straight freeways, plain secondary flat open road with high speed wide sweepers, an absolutely delightful 30 mile tight winding mountain roads and a further twisting open and tight 90 mile mountain road.

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Over this period of time bikes ridden were my R90S, R65LS, K100RS and K1100RS. All the bikes were packed with tents and beer to survive 4 days out in the bush. All bikes satisfactorily did the run without any issues. However being loaded with luggage and consistently averaging 85mph the water cooled K’s were definitely less stressed in such a hot climate. The hottest run was at 118F during the day and 95F just after midnight.

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You’re going on a long run facing mountains, acceleration and braking whilst carrying pillion, panniers and luggage. Any engine will have its work cut out for the run. I will not tell you which bike to bye/use, just think of mechanical sympathy.

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And don’t forget the bloody postcards.

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Cheers mate

Frank

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