Felt the dragon's mouth today

[finless]

So I went to AAA to get my custom license plate about 1 hour ago. Worse time to go! Lunch time on a Friday.
Lots of traffic and stop and go. One light I had to wait 2 swings through. Ambient was 95. I saw the temp gage rise a tiny bit above 1/2 and the fan came on. Now don't chastise me for wearing shorts! I usually will not do that but it was a short ride in this heat wave. But when the fan came on, I felt the heat on my leg blowing out from the "Dragon's Mouth". I did not feel it on my foot through my tennis shoes. While it was uncomfortable it certainly did not burn me up or anything. Once the fan went off it stopped. Totally not the dragon's breath I was expecting after all the reports of this I have read. I think I can deal with it. Had I had jeans on, I might not have felt it.

My report on the first experience with the infamous "Dragon's Mouth".

Bob

 

[shelbydave]

It varies. Some days I don't feel it at all... Even when the fan comes on, and other days it feels like someone pointing a hair drier at me set to high. I have also not felt it with sneakers, but with my black leather boots... another story.

 

[MouthPiece]

So I went to AAA to get my custom license plate about 1 hour ago. Worse time to go! Lunch time on a Friday.
Lots of traffic and stop and go. One light I had to wait 2 swings through. Ambient was 95. I saw the temp gage rise a tiny bit above 1/2 and the fan came on. Now don't chastise me for wearing shorts! I usually will not do that but it was a short ride in this heat wave. But when the fan came on, I felt the heat on my leg blowing out from the "Dragon's Mouth". I did not feel it on my foot through my tennis shoes. While it was uncomfortable it certainly did not burn me up or anything. Once the fan went off it stopped. Totally not the dragon's breath I was expecting after all the reports of this I have read. I think I can deal with it. Had I had jeans on, I might not have felt it.

My report on the first experience with the infamous "Dragon's Mouth".

Bob

Yeah yeah yeah, Bob. After watchin your two DIY videos and seein you with bare feet in one and sandals in the other, we all know you ride with shorts most of the time.

Chris

 

[MidLifeCrisis]

Sitting in traffic, the air tends to blow pass as intended. When you get up to speed, the air will at some point change directions and hit your foot dead on, due to the way the Spyder slices through the air and the pressure drop behind the right fin. This I discovered by doing my own testing with strings and wires, while I was playing around with a fix.

Additionally for me at least, 95 degrees ambient is right about when things start to get hot. The flame is usually in full force above that temp. Air pressure seems to play a part as well. I seemed to cook more in the phoenix valley, than in the same temps at altitude.

That's my experience anyway.

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[Bob Denman]

Glad to hear that it wasn't....

 

[finless]

Yeah yeah yeah, Bob. After watchin your two DIY videos and seein you with bare feet in one and sandals in the other, we all know you ride with shorts most of the time.

Chris

:roflblack::roflblack::roflblack:

Sessh man... you guys don't miss a thing!

Bob

 

[Bob Ledford]

Welcome to Florida

Welcome to every day in the summer time. hyea:

we put up with those kind of temperatures and add on 90% to 100% humidity. That is one of the few things that bugs me about the hot foot syndrome. We here in the Southern Quarter experience a hot wet heat about six months of the year. Then we get a couple of temperate months. Guess you could call that Fall. Followed by semi ideal riding weather guess we should call that Winter. Then we have Spring which is a mixed bag of cold, warm and hot but not :cus: Hot, and dry or wet.

But I would not trade it for CA weather on a bad day at its best.

I think and let me state now I don't have any solid evidence at this time but a gut feeling. BRP could probably solve the problem with a minimal dollar expense by scooping more air in the front and providing a bigger air outlet in the rear. Some one with more technical knowledge of heat and air flow experience will probably say I am all wet too. But they have a huge radiator in the front with exhaust outlets facing the crew area. Honda brings their air in the front and exhausts it out the sides and out the bottom of the chassis or frame. So the ambient air could legitimately be within degrees of each other but since Honda dumps their hot air out the sides and bottom the crew area seems cooler. Whereas BRP choose to dump its collected hot air where it is felt more in the crew area.

I'm not being bothered right now because I don't do well at temps in the hi 90's/100% humidity. So I curtail my mid day exposure to early/late day time and like a good farmer sleep during the heat of the day or suck up AC.

It's a never to be solved situation in my book at this time. We as good Spyder folks will continue to beat the horse. Come up with our minor fixes such as heat shields, baffles, redirection, etc. it is a shame we can't give Canada some of our heat in exchange for some of their cool/cold.

 

[mcaccamise]

:agree::agree: 100% early in the day and late in the evening.

 

[kepople]

hmmm... my RTS runs hot. Tonight on a short cruise, it was running 1 bar below the hot line on the guage. Up to speed it came down, but it definatly was running hot. I never hear the fan come on or not, but I was not listening for it.

what should I check before I really feel the dragons tongue?

 

[AbNormy]

custom plate

So I went to AAA to get my custom license plate about 1 hour ago. Worse time to go! Lunch time on a Friday.
Lots of traffic and stop and go. One light I had to wait 2 swings through. Ambient was 95. I saw the temp gage rise a tiny bit above 1/2 and the fan came on. Now don't chastise me for wearing shorts! I usually will not do that but it was a short ride in this heat wave. But when the fan came on, I felt the heat on my leg blowing out from the "Dragon's Mouth". I did not feel it on my foot through my tennis shoes. While it was uncomfortable it certainly did not burn me up or anything. Once the fan went off it stopped. Totally not the dragon's breath I was expecting after all the reports of this I have read. I think I can deal with it. Had I had jeans on, I might not have felt it.

My report on the first experience with the infamous "Dragon's Mouth".

Bob

Does AAA make custom plate holders? I'd like on that says Spyderlovers.com AbNormy

 

[NancysToy]

hmmm... my RTS runs hot. Tonight on a short cruise, it was running 1 bar below the hot line on the guage. Up to speed it came down, but it definatly was running hot. I never hear the fan come on or not, but I was not listening for it.

what should I check before I really feel the dragons tongue?

You probably won't hear the fan. Hold your hand by the opening to feel for the air flow.

 

[Bob Denman]

:agree::agree: 100% early in the day and late in the evening.

Is it time to go riding yet??