Fireblade burned leg syndrome

[cmaguire]

Angrybiker said:

Very occasionally, on a hot summer's day, going only a few miles down the road on traffic roads and only at low speed. Gimme a break and start talking about the subject at hand, if you please

I'm not bothered by you wearing shorts, or not wearing a helmet either.
You at least have some choice with the former. For now

[308mate]

nervous said:

People don't really wear shorts on a bike do they? I'm genuinely staggered. Hot legs is the very least of the OPs concerns if this is true.

Now you've done it...

[nervous]

308mate said:

Now you've done it...

How do you mean? Is this one of those contentious topics?

[Yoda400]

In Arizona most people wear shorts, tattoos and flip flops on bikes, no helmets. But then it's 40 degrees. And they ride Harleys.

My right leg was being boiled through my leathers today in slow traffic on the VFR. I can't wear draggin jeans on that bike it gets so hot.

[Rawwr]

Having covered 7,500 miles on your bike, I can safely say I never experienced that.

[Andy XRV]

cmaguire said:

Angrybiker said:

Very occasionally, on a hot summer's day, going only a few miles down the road on traffic roads and only at low speed. Gimme a break and start talking about the subject at hand, if you please

I'm not bothered by you wearing shorts, or not wearing a helmet either.
You at least have some choice with the former. For now

Nor me, I think it's called freedom of choice..

[cmaguire]

Andy XRV said:

Nor me, I think it's called freedom of choice..

Freedom of choice here peaked about 30 years ago. Ever since they've been claiming it has been increasing, when it very much appears to me that the exact opposite has been happening.

Freedom of choice vs. Political Correctness.
There's only going to be one winner.

[Darkslider]

Angrybiker said:

Very occasionally, on a hot summer's day, going only a few miles down the road on traffic roads and only at low speed. Gimme a break and start talking about the subject at hand, if you please

I'm in the same camp as you. To get from my house to my parents is a couple of miles of slow moving town roads with nothing higher than a 30 limit. I can ride this in lycra shorts and top on my bicycle, and for the most part can meet or exceed the 30 mph limit along with the passing cars and filtering that it entails and nobody bats an eyelid.

Yet if I undertake the exact same journey on my much bigger, noisier and safer GSXR, wearing shorts and a t shirt everyone loses their minds.

[hman]

Darkslider said:

I'm in the same camp as you. To get from my house to my parents is a couple of miles of slow moving town roads with nothing higher than a 30 limit. I can ride this in lycra shorts and top on my bicycle, and for the most part can meet or exceed the 30 mph limit along with the passing cars and filtering that it entails and nobody bats an eyelid.

Yet if I undertake the exact same journey on my much bigger, noisier and safer GSXR, wearing shorts and a t shirt everyone loses their minds.

I reckon your pedal bike weighs 10kgs and your gsxr somewhere around 175kgs - I know which one I'd rather not have pressing down on a naked leg whilst skating along the tarmac at 30mph.

Also I reckon your pedal bike doesn't have any hot metal surfaces and i reckon your pedal bikes whizzy jagged metal bits will not continue to slice through your flesh and bone with the power of a motorbike engine at idle when you fall off and your foot goes though the rear wheel / chain/ rear sprocket.

[Gavia]

Angrybiker said:

OK, just got this 'new' 14 blade. Was hoping that the leg burning situation would be an improvement from the 600RR. Unfortunately the exact opposite. Instead, while waiting at the lights, feels like my right calf is like a doner kebab where the rotisserie has stopped working. Truly insane amount of heat. In fact left leg is also pretty hot. Looks like my days of summer afternoon trips to Kingston on the bike wearing shorts, are numbered . Rather need asbestos knee socks.

Does anyone else notice this and any suggestions? Do after market exhausts help?

I'm quoting this because there's every chance it will be deleted. However, my view is simple, stop pushing your legs / calf into the exhaust. It's not difficult. When you think you look awesome, have a look in the mirror, you'll look a tt. Sort that and you'll solve your leprosy leg problems.

[cycle tramp]

You lot dont know what heat is all about until you've ridden a Panigale round town in the summer.

[nervous]

cycle tramp said:

You lot dont know what heat is all about until you've ridden a Panigale round town in the summer.

You've got nothing. My 1098R sterilised me in an afternoon. I could literally hear my offspring vaporising.

[moanthebairns]

Do you have the sort of aftermarket cover at the exhaust bend?

[moanthebairns]

[308mate]

Darkslider said:

I'm in the same camp as you. To get from my house to my parents is a couple of miles of slow moving town roads with nothing higher than a 30 limit. I can ride this in lycra shorts and top on my bicycle, and for the most part can meet or exceed the 30 mph limit along with the passing cars and filtering that it entails and nobody bats an eyelid.

Yet if I undertake the exact same journey on my much bigger, noisier and safer GSXR, wearing shorts and a t shirt everyone loses their minds.

Exactly this. I hit 65kmh in the Surrey Hills on the bicycle last week, will go faster for longer on Mt Teide next month, wearing owt but some lycra. But you just try going to the shops on a motorbike in a t-shirt.

Weights aside, I can tell you which one has the better stopping distance at that speed and it isn't the one with two thumb-print size contact patches running 115psi.

[black-k1]

papa3 said:

Loyly said:

A good slide down the road in shorts will probably leave enough scarring so that you won't feel your flesh burning near a hot exhaust in future. Not a short term solution though.

^ This exactly. Astonishes me to see shorts/no gloves/trainers on any bike.

Because having an accident while wearing long trousers is completely safe!

If (and only IF) ALL the gear you wear (all the time) is fully CE level 2 or 3 approved, your helmet has 5 stars from SHARP, you hold a number of advanced riding qualifications and never ride in a way that might slightly increase the risk to you or any other road user will you be in a position to comment on/criticize how others manage their own risk.

[Angrybiker]

Gavia said:

Angrybiker said:

OK, just got this 'new' 14 blade. Was hoping that the leg burning situation would be an improvement from the 600RR. Unfortunately the exact opposite. Instead, while waiting at the lights, feels like my right calf is like a doner kebab where the rotisserie has stopped working. Truly insane amount of heat. In fact left leg is also pretty hot. Looks like my days of summer afternoon trips to Kingston on the bike wearing shorts, are numbered . Rather need asbestos knee socks.

Does anyone else notice this and any suggestions? Do after market exhausts help?

I'm quoting this because there's every chance it will be deleted. However, my view is simple, stop pushing your legs / calf into the exhaust. It's not difficult. When you think you look awesome, have a look in the mirror, you'll look a tt. Sort that and you'll solve your leprosy leg problems.

Thanks SO much for that very useful input - after 20 years riding I'd NEVER have thought to move my leg farther away from a hot source. Is this some kind of joke?

[Angrybiker]

black-k1 said:

papa3 said:

Loyly said:

A good slide down the road in shorts will probably leave enough scarring so that you won't feel your flesh burning near a hot exhaust in future. Not a short term solution though.

^ This exactly. Astonishes me to see shorts/no gloves/trainers on any bike.

Because having an accident while wearing long trousers is completely safe!

If (and only IF) ALL the gear you wear (all the time) is fully CE level 2 or 3 approved, your helmet has 5 stars from SHARP, you hold a number of advanced riding qualifications and never ride in a way that might slightly increase the risk to you or any other road user will you be in a position to comment on/criticize how others manage their own risk.

Exactly. Enough sanctimonious bullst please. You're not talking to a 16 year olds here.

In any event, since everyone seems dead set on talking about everything in the world except whether they have the same problem and what they did or did not do to mitigate it, I'll presume that no one has anything constructive to contribute and I'll move on.

[Jazoli]

Angrybiker said:

Exactly. Enough sanctimonious bullst please. You're not talking to a 16 year olds here.

In any event, since everyone seems dead set on talking about everything in the world except whether they have the same problem and what they did or did not do to mitigate it, I'll presume that no one has anything constructive to contribute and I'll move on.

Simple answer is don't ride a '14 'blade in town with shorts on, there is no solution, apart from buying an R1 and toasting your nuts instead

[spareparts]

If you think a Blade's exhaust is hot, wait till you ride a Ducati where the rear header is about half a foot from your inner thigh (exactly within the small red triangle on the trellis frame in the pic). I had my exhaust ceramic coated with a carbon heat shield added, and it has significantly reduced the heat.






With regards to what you wear when you ride, who gives a st. Your body, your risk, your whatever. There are millions of bikers in Asia who ride 2/3/4-up who have never heard of Goretex or CE-protection!