jamesf
New Member
Just bought an 05 FZ6 yesterday. Today it was about 60 degrees and I was out riding on the highway maintaining about 85-95 mph for a little while. I then got off the hwy and had a relaxed ride back to my house thru the city (about 5-10 mins). When I got home, I shut the bike off (with the kill switch) and the temp was at about 3 bars (s1 gauge cluster, so no numerical values). After I shut it off the fan kicked on (or maybe it was already on and I couldn't hear it before). Temp now at 4 bars. I'm a little concerned at this point because it hadn't done this before. Temp then climbs up to 5 bars (although I don't recall the 5th bar flashing), at which point I started the bike to get coolant flowing because I was pretty worried at that point. After I started it, temp instantly dropped to 4 bars, and then quickly after that back to three. Shut it off again after it had been at three for a little bit, and it climbed to four again, and the fan kicked on again, but it went back to three after a minute or so.
It is of course logical that coolant temp would increase after shutting the bike off, but is this much of an increase normal? I didn't notice this at all earlier in the day when riding and stopping, nor did I notice it last night when bringing it home, however it was colder and I wasn't sustaining speeds as high. Anyone else experience a similar temp spike after shutting off the motor?
Related question: Does anyone actually know what the temp bars on the S1 correspond to in terms of numerical values? I hate arbitrary scales like this.
It is of course logical that coolant temp would increase after shutting the bike off, but is this much of an increase normal? I didn't notice this at all earlier in the day when riding and stopping, nor did I notice it last night when bringing it home, however it was colder and I wasn't sustaining speeds as high. Anyone else experience a similar temp spike after shutting off the motor?
Related question: Does anyone actually know what the temp bars on the S1 correspond to in terms of numerical values? I hate arbitrary scales like this.