Ralfyguy has just now rediscovered the points made two side stand wars back that caused the HOT CHECK to come into being -- oil expands, our bikes are different from each other and
the side stands are not at the same angle. Welcome to 3 months ago, you are finally catching up with the discussion.
And yes, Ralfyguy, ideally you might want half a glass empty on a hot test but trouble doesn't start until a full glass is seen -- you need to get that particular point right or else you are just lobbing hand grenades into the discussion (which in a side stand war is normal enough behavior , but the other folks simply need to recognize what that smoking knobby oval form means when it lands at their feet).
Routy is upset that I take conservative positions on these things, this one being that logically, you don't want your oil level getting up into your crank space above the oil shelf. You can get away with it short term, we all do each time we hit the brakes going down hill -- but conservatively you don't want to do it all the time.
Another conservative point that Routy may not like -- once the oil is over the window in the hot test you simply don't know how high it really goes. Over the window is "unmonitored territory".
Now, the fact nobody is seeing copious amounts of oil in their air boxes does tend to support Routy's position that this may not be harmful, but I still can't recommend people going past a full window on a hot test -- jest can't do it. Conservative, you know.
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What is a list member to do?
If you want to side stand, do the Hot Test once on your bike to see what the angle of your side stand combined with the expansion rate of your favorite oil really really does. Two folks have seen that they shouldn't side stand on their bikes out of the dozen or so who are currently doing it.
heck if somebody wasn't going to fail the test why would we be saying you need to do it ....
Interesting point discovered this time around the barn, if you added a side stand puck to your side stand (something the folks down South need in the asphalt softening hot summer months anyway) you would pick up some hot test clearance.
Jest think of it as carrying your wooden block around with you all the time ....