Just thought I'd add my little story.
the reason I have so much trouble with the heat is because my right leg is stiff, and therefore is very close to the header pipes and the heat coming up from the exhaust. My trike was 24 hours old to me when I shipped it to the states for our 3 1/2 month riding tour.
The heat was so bad, that the back of my thigh was burnt several times. I rode with my bad leg hanging out at times trying to get away from the heat. Cried a lot too! Kept going to Harley dealer's along the journey, and I have to say they were all wonderful, but nothing resolved.
We were riding with friends on our way to Georgia, and to also ride the Dragon, when things finally came to a head. Coming down a hill on the highway the sound of the trike got real loud, then the neutral light came on -- and I was in gear!! Yelled over the CB to my husband that something was wrong and I had to stop. Only place was the small area marked where the highway split. We all pulled up and the heat was so bad I had to move back into the passenger seat to get my leg away from it .... just as my friend yelled that the bike was on fire!!!!! They grabbed their bottles of water and put it out. My husband then saw oil all under the trike. He took the chrome cover off the header pipe to find that they had split from the heat about 6-7 inches.
Arranged a tow truck, and trike was taken to Chattanooga H-D These people were amazing. Their technician was finally able to tell me the problem. A wire was broken, and this prevented the flap from opening on the cat converter -- so all the heat was going back into the engine. Bad enough to near blow the thing up with me on it. This was from initial build of the bike before it was shipped to me!!!!! The heat also melted my clutch cable, this is why the light came on, and it was that oil that caught fire.
Gotta tell ya it was scarey there for a while.
the reason I have so much trouble with the heat is because my right leg is stiff, and therefore is very close to the header pipes and the heat coming up from the exhaust. My trike was 24 hours old to me when I shipped it to the states for our 3 1/2 month riding tour.
The heat was so bad, that the back of my thigh was burnt several times. I rode with my bad leg hanging out at times trying to get away from the heat. Cried a lot too! Kept going to Harley dealer's along the journey, and I have to say they were all wonderful, but nothing resolved.
We were riding with friends on our way to Georgia, and to also ride the Dragon, when things finally came to a head. Coming down a hill on the highway the sound of the trike got real loud, then the neutral light came on -- and I was in gear!! Yelled over the CB to my husband that something was wrong and I had to stop. Only place was the small area marked where the highway split. We all pulled up and the heat was so bad I had to move back into the passenger seat to get my leg away from it .... just as my friend yelled that the bike was on fire!!!!! They grabbed their bottles of water and put it out. My husband then saw oil all under the trike. He took the chrome cover off the header pipe to find that they had split from the heat about 6-7 inches.
Arranged a tow truck, and trike was taken to Chattanooga H-D These people were amazing. Their technician was finally able to tell me the problem. A wire was broken, and this prevented the flap from opening on the cat converter -- so all the heat was going back into the engine. Bad enough to near blow the thing up with me on it. This was from initial build of the bike before it was shipped to me!!!!! The heat also melted my clutch cable, this is why the light came on, and it was that oil that caught fire.
Gotta tell ya it was scarey there for a while.