Richard, like I said in a post above, I respect you immensly, and would bring a bike to you or Daniel first to have it turbocharged
, and I'm in no way trying to disrespect you, but before 1984 and kawi's water cooled GPZ900, pretty much every bike ever made was air-cooled, and ran fine in rush hour traffic and highway cruising.......
without needing a fan OR moving air when sitting still in that rush hour traffic. BMW boxer twins and Harleys, among others, STILL run with only air-cooling and engine finning/oil coolers and can sit in rush hour traffic or cruise just like a modern water-cooled sportbike, and last just as long :learn:
Water cooling is way better of course........but you don't
have to have a fan or moving air to keep an engine running.......it just helps. My 92 gixxer 1100 air-cooled with its engine fins and big ole oil cooler with no fan gets ran in the same conditions as my water-cooled bikes, and performs admirably whether stuck in traffic or moving down the road
Like I said, of course water cooling is better, but I had to respond to the :learn:
emoticon you threw in there, not sure that was really necessary?