:lazer_b::lazer_i::lazer_k::lazer_E::lazer_R: :lazer_f::lazer_R::lazer_E::lazer_n: on Nostr: I have merely done as our ancestors have for ~140 years, and purchased many kit parts ...

I have merely done as our ancestors have for ~140 years, and purchased many kit parts from men who own machine shops, to jazz up my flivver.

The bike is cheap. It just runs a loop of coolant through the radiator and back into the engine, with a thermostat in the way. The thermostat just pulses like every 60 seconds and dumps freezing water into the engine, and it's not so great for the machine. This bypass goes around the radiator a little, to always be injecting hot water back into the cold stream, so the bike can more accurately regulate its temperature.

The waterless coolant was something I saw on youtube. A Canadian snowmobile dude showed how he could brutally overheat his sled's engine and it didn't blow any gaskets or anything, because he was running the waterless coolant. I looked it up and it's also eternal, like if you junk the bike take the juice out 'cause it's reusable forever, so I decided hell yeah, never do this ever again, and bought some.

It's all glycols, they say. I don't really understand chemicals, but if it never freezes, never boils, and never goes bad it must be futuristic.