This is an issue that we frequently see brought up: why does it idle higher after a long, fast ride? I'm pretty used to the phenomena myself not to make a fuss out of it, but lately it's been a little too much to ignore. Yesterday I came into the city from the freeway with idle at 2500, and combined with the hot weather and traffic jams, found myself forced to turn off the engine at stop lights before it shoots close to max temperature.
The factor of coming down from revving high for a while is familiar, but I can't resolve the correlation between high temperature and high idle as they appear to reinforce each other. Earlier yesterday, I was doing some parking lot drills (MSF exp.), not revving high, but the hot weather apparently shot my idle high as well throughout the day, again reinforcing high engine temperature and so on. I'm a little alarmed that this phenomena can actually get to a point of being forced to shut down. The bike runs great otherwise (jetted, K&N) and has enough oil. Any ideas?
The factor of coming down from revving high for a while is familiar, but I can't resolve the correlation between high temperature and high idle as they appear to reinforce each other. Earlier yesterday, I was doing some parking lot drills (MSF exp.), not revving high, but the hot weather apparently shot my idle high as well throughout the day, again reinforcing high engine temperature and so on. I'm a little alarmed that this phenomena can actually get to a point of being forced to shut down. The bike runs great otherwise (jetted, K&N) and has enough oil. Any ideas?