Topic: How easy is it to overheat a sohc4 (550)?

[RFogelsong]

Running pretty hard in a draft on the highway this week on my 550 got me wondering this.  Am I in any danger if I'm running, say, about 85 mph on a 550 stock motor in other cars' wakes?

How about idling in summer gridlock (I'm running 10w-40)? How much can these bikes take? 

I've never had any problems, and, in theory, I'm not exceeding the design envelope, but this is going to be my first summer with a sohc4 and I'm curious.

[harisuluv]

I would be more worried about sitting and not moving than going fast down a freeway or something.  These Honda guys have engineers that figure this stuff out so I wouldn't really worry about it unless you are just sitting for a long time.

When I am working on a bike and I am running it to do diagnostics I always put a fan on it if I'm going to be running it for more than a couple minutes.