It is all that useless water they have to lug around that slows them down... 
how friggen true.
Then add the drama's of trying to get a radiator fixed.
4 months of being bullshyted too, yes we can fix it, take my bucks, pick the friggen thing up a week later, and 200k's down the road it leaken just as bad.
One could always buy a new one, :duh:yeah right the REX radiator, $1150 plus GST hello
the red book value on the bike, makes the radiator nearly 1 third of that. F*#* me standing, and how long before it hits the shores. Then one could buy a second hand one,
if you could find one that is. Oh I found one in England, by the time I got it here it was goning to cost me the best part of $500. Oh I could get an aftermarket unit from some bloke state side F#*# me dead, the cost by the time its landed here, for crying out loud, you would think I was asking for the death of their first born, not a flaming radiator.
Found a bloke in Japan, who could supply me with a OEM part, not a bad price but add shipping and import tax if I got caught, and again a bit on the pricey side but the best option so far.
Then bingo, while looking at using automotive heater cores, the man who I'm got checking out heater cores, asks to see my old radiator. And you got it, he has the right size core in stock, and can recore alloy cored radiators. So all the so called radiator specialists I spoke too, rang, emailed, who swore black and blue that alloy radiators can not be recored where just full of bullshyte.
The took my radiator told me he was mighty busy, and it might take a while, so I didn't push, just told him when you can. Well you could have knocked me down with a feather 2 working days later he rings and says all fixed, tested and warrantied for 2 years.
Still $600, but the cheapest buy far, and the warranty I aint bitchin about.
Water cooled bikes great for racing,
but
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