HOT

There is one thing that most people learn on accident, exhaust pipes are hot. Since I've had my bike I have burned myself, and just about every one else daring to go for a ride. It only takes a fraction of a second to happen, but the mark it leaves on your skin may very well take a week to go away. What kind a heat leaves a mark with such little contact? Around 1000 degrees farenheit. What surprises me is how fast it heats up. 

Consider this blog a warning to all those invited to climb on back of somebody's motorcycle, watch out for the pipes! The only good thing about getting a burn at that kind of heat is it doesn't really hurt all that bad. You will feel pain, but it goes away rather quickly. With little kids just be extremely cautious. Any long sustained contact could melt the flesh really fast and burn down to the bone. This is just another one of those things that puts motorcycles on peoples crap list.