So I've developed this habit with the Hawk of wheelieing the thing about 75% of the time that I'm in first gear. So as not to eat the clutch I'm just doing power wheelies in first gear (roll off the gas in the 3,500-5,000rpm area and then nail it to WOT right away), and have developed great proficiency with it, to the point where I'm carrying the wheel to redline. Any day now I'm gonna be shifting it into second gear while in the air.
Enough bragging about stupid stuff. I knew this would come with fix it consequences. Setting it back down tends to eat up the fork seals and whatnot. I know that much. What I didn't expect was for the radiator to spring a leak.
That's exactly what's happened. It's spraying from a tube in the middle about halfway up. It looks like it might be leaking more slowly from a second tube too. This all happened in the course of one day, and has gotten significantly worse. I'm still only losing a couple ounces after a 50 mile ride, but the puddles under the bike sure are disconcerting.
So I ordered a Magna V45 radiator on ebay and we'll see what happens, but I'm interested if anybody's done a repair on one of these radiators. Seems like an awful waste to ditch it just because of one or two bad tubes.
Anybody else bust a radiator from wheelieing?
Enough bragging about stupid stuff. I knew this would come with fix it consequences. Setting it back down tends to eat up the fork seals and whatnot. I know that much. What I didn't expect was for the radiator to spring a leak.
That's exactly what's happened. It's spraying from a tube in the middle about halfway up. It looks like it might be leaking more slowly from a second tube too. This all happened in the course of one day, and has gotten significantly worse. I'm still only losing a couple ounces after a 50 mile ride, but the puddles under the bike sure are disconcerting.
So I ordered a Magna V45 radiator on ebay and we'll see what happens, but I'm interested if anybody's done a repair on one of these radiators. Seems like an awful waste to ditch it just because of one or two bad tubes.
Anybody else bust a radiator from wheelieing?
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