Re: heat

[TrmpetDave@xxxxxxx]

I just got back from my Laguna Seca trip (from San Diego) and must report a 
most distressing problem. When we got to the flat and hot part of 33 going up 
the San Joachin I found myself looking for the "off" switch for the 
bun-warmer, as there was a lot of heat which seemed to be coming up through 
the seat. Remembering that I was not riding a BMW, I investigated a little 
more, and finally decided it must be hot air from under the trailing edge of 
the fairing that was roasting the undersides of my thighs. Coming back along 
101 in the San Fernando Valley on Monday July 12, the temp must have been in 
the triple digits, and I almost got heat-stroke. This is a serious problem, 
much worse than on my '95 Trophy 1200, about which there were many heat 
complaints. I rode mine from Mexico to Canada and back X3 through lots of 
heat (in fact there was a day in Mexicali when some of the participants 
actually were laid up for a day with hyperthermia) The frame (of the ST) was 
so hot that I couldn't touch it. It seems that no one has told the the 
designers back in good old Blighty that the US of A is a HOT COUNTRY. Similar 
problems afflicted their riding jacket-I had to have mine extensively vented 
to make it usable here.
Has any one else experienced this? It occurs to me that most of the US 
moto-magazine boys must have done their testing in the winter. Similarly, in 
the English climate, which I have biked in, a little warmth to the nether 
regions, I am sure, is most comforting.
Unless there is a solution, I think my otherwise lovely ST will become my 
around-town commuter, which it is not particularly good at, and my 
winter-touring bike. HELP! Dave Collins, San Diego

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