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I'm sure if that happened to my I wouldn't of kept my cool like you did.

I used rain-x + a defogger last year and it worked just fine. I just need to get up to my dads house sometime to reapply it for this season.

You'd have been fine either way, it's already on the ground, and your tires are rubber, your bike would have carried none of the current.... just would have been like a tiny speed bump.

I was more worried about the line getting snagged on my bike than anything.

You had to take a break from slamming on your brakes?

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So, I was riding home from work today in the rain and I ran into a downed telephone line. I was only doing 35mph, but my visor was a little fogged up and had alot of rain spots on it. Once I saw the downed line I got on my breaks pretty good, but I started to slide so I had to let off the breaks and get back on them again. I managed to keep the bike up and only bump the line slightly.

I called it in and also managed to stop a truck, who didn't notice the downed line from hitting it. I never thought about looking for something like this while riding, but from now on I will be more alert. I'm just glad it was raining since I usually fly down this road and the rain was the only thing keeping my speed down.

Proper permits and such this time

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My baby has a new kickstand and front tire thanks to Hoblick. I just did my my coolant last week and changed my oil today, also lubed up the chain again while I was at it. I think all she needs is a good bath sometime soon and we will be ready to tear it up Anything else I need to do/know you think? I did visual inspections, everything looked good.

Maybe you should follow paulys advice and not use your bike as a guinea pig...

I agree, when I drove semi trucks for the army we just added coolant to the reservoir... I will have to start looking up proper procedures when doing things on my bike from now on. I want to take good care of it so it will last me a long time and so I don't have to fork out alot of $$ for issues I may have neglected.

I'm glad y'all are pointing me in the right direction

Am I the only one that found the process of finding the problem a bit humorous? What could be causing the high temp of 217°? Oil level? Nope. Front tire? Nope. Back tire? Low. Only a little low so you had to have a checked out with a gauge. If you eyeballed it and it looked low, it's more than just a tad low. Only then did you notice wetness on the tire.

Just messing with ya.

I was just making my way around the bike is all, I had no clue what the issue could be because if wasn't just that it was running hot. I manually checked the tires though, it just feels a few pounds off. I have a air compressor, so no biggie, I should have checked it before I road though.

You need to put it directly into the radiator first till full, then run the bike and burp the system, top off radiator, then add to overflow tank to the min line.

How did you think it was going work? Magical coolant defies gravity, flows uphill into radiator?

Thanks, I'm not mechanically inclined. I will do that next time I get a chance.

I added it to the tank that I pictured directly. my tank was completely drained as shown in the picture, right now it's at the proper level after I filled it up yesterday. I need to be a little more careful next time I am doing something to the bike. Hopefully that was the problem, thanks for the help y'all. I'll post up again if it turns out to be a different problem.

Your fan coming on at 223 degrees is not the way it should go...

Also, how do you overfill the coolant? Do you mean the overflow tank? There is a minimum line...

If you changed coolant and dropped it completely, you probably have an air bubble and needs burped.

You should not get into the habit of running the bike over 220 while moving... I am concerned about the thermostat. You need to run it until it gets over 180 and watch the gauge. The temp should rise and then fall a couple of degrees at some point. That means the Thermostat is working. If it climbs over 200 and not decrease at all, I say a thermostat is needed. Hard to tell without looking.

223 is correct for the F4i as I looked into that yesterday.

I filled it to the tipy top because I was talking and wasn't paying attention to what I was doing. It is now at the top fill line instead of up to the cap... I just added coolant, I didn't flush it.

after my bike got up to 225 I got on it and tested the temp. it dropped to 189 degrees in a matter of seconds, 225 was just because I let it idle for quite some time.

once I actually get a chance to ride it again I will see what happens. Best case scenario is that I caused the problem by adding way too much coolant. I didn't even think about that until someone mentioned the overflow hoses I had pictured.

If it leaks again I will take off the plastics and do a thorough inspection.

The bike is about 10 minutes from Kettering. I will be at work all day tomorrow though. I am wondering if I caused the issue though, I did overfill my coolant on accident, so I am wondering if the pressure could have caused the drain valve to act like a siphon and just drained all the coolant. I filled it to the proper levels and rode it kind of hard after letting it idle to 225 degrees(fan kicks in at 223) I couldn't get it to leak again and the coolant levels remained the same the entire ride.

Is the fan working??

The fan works just fine cuz I can hear it running after I turn the bike off. I put in some fresh coolant and started up the bike. Hopefully I will be able to find the leak. I can't get a good enough angle to see all the hoses though.

No coolant

The canisters I was talking about covered in coolant

Coolant splatter on tire

Coolant on hose tips

Coolant on lower fairings

So I'm riding my 05 f4i today and smell something burning after about 2 miles and notice that my bike is at 217 degrees and I wasn't running it very hard. I was close enough to home so I figured I would just take it home and check it out. Well I make a u-turn and notice that my back tire was slipping pretty bad, so I decided to just pull off the side of the road. The firt thing I check is the oil and it's just fine, I then check my front tire and it's good(ish) then I check my back tire and notice it's a tad low, but not much. Then I noticed the left side of my back tire was very wet and I noticed there was also fresh untouched coolant splatter spots on the tire. I then checked the coolant resivore(I know spelling) and it was completely empty and I had just replaced my coolant last week. I then check under the bike and there are 2 tubes covered in fresh coolant and a metal oval thing covered in coolant. I will take pictures here in a minute and post them so you can see what I'm talking about.

Any ideas on why I'm leaking and how much repairs could cost? I haven't put the bike on my rear stand yet, but I am about to so I can do a further inspection and take the pictures.

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4yo old shoots a cops wife with the cops gun... How unfortunate... I smell a scandal...

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/08/us/tennessee-gun-death/

(CNN) -*A pistol in the hands of a 4-year-old boy went off during a weekend cookout, killing the wife of a Tennessee sheriff's deputy who was showing his guns to a relative, state police said Monday.No one saw the boy pick up the weapon before the shooting, which occurred Saturday night in Lebanon, east of Nashville, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Kristin Helm said. The single shot killed 47-year-old Josephine Fanning, the wife of Wilson County Sheriff's Deputy Daniel Fanning.The couple were hosting family and friends at their house when Daniel Fanning and a relative went into a bedroom to check out some of Fanning's guns, Helm said. Josephine Fanning and the boy walked into the room later, and at some point the boy picked the loaded pistol up off the bed.Helm said she wasn't sure of the relationship between the boy and the Fannings. The TBI, which investigates incidents involving law enforcement officers, is still conducting its probe, and no charges have been filed.The gun involved was Fanning's personal weapon, not his service pistol, she said.

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