Yeah cheers Dougie. I looked last night but they're only listing silencers for the 954. I'm sure I'll find one, it's just not as easy as I thought it would be.
ah no worries - you know, ide love to have a bash at making one! just need a mate with a cnc machine! but even then, i doubt it would be difficult! its basically fancy chicken wire!
Good point. I have a friend with a CNC machine, several, in fact, and he has a 954 too, so it's in his best interest to make one. or two.
Cox might be your best chance ken if your mate can make 1. BLACK Radiator Guard or this 1 954 radiator guard
Nice find Fez. I just text my mate to find the lay of the land, as it were, and his concern with a rad guard is how much airflow it restricts. He panics about his battery when his fan's running. I'd be more concerned by the £500 bill to replace the rad. I've told him to double his speed to compensate for a 50% restriction. Jees! You'd think an engineer could have worked that out on his own!
My 2009 blade used to run at 75 C - with the rad guard its running at about 80 C. To be expected as it does cover some of the riffles to provide protection but its no biggy.
Hmm, interesting. If one was to be made then that was flat across the space rather than curved to sit snug against the rad, the increased gap between the guard and the rad might null out the restriction of the cooling air, do you think?
Dont think that would work mate to be honest the air is still coming in from the front so It wont matter if its curved or flat, also, if you have the abs model, the guard just squeezes up past the abs wires. Look at mine
I see. I was thinking something along these lines. By placing the whole surface of the guard flat against the surface of the matrix, you may be losing possibly 50% of the wetted surface area of the radiator that is in direct contact of the airflow. If the guard was flat and didn't follow the contour of the radiator, then the airflow would pass through the guard before coming into contact with the surface of the rad. So even though the airflow would be diminished, the wetted area of the radiator matrix wouldn't. I know the configurations of each model is different and the curve of the radiator seems to be to increase the clearance to the wheel as the forks turn, but I did a quick, by eye measure last night and the radiator is recessed far enough into the fairing that there'd be no fouling.
Mine's way too old for ABS mate. It was just a thought. There are some horror stories about rad replacement costs on here and given South West Highways predilection for sprinkling granite hundreds & thousands on every bit of tarmac they can at the moment, it's definitely a mod worth considering, airflow restriction or not. Cheers Dougie.
