Putting The 'Bling' back into Plastics

I remember getting my AE430 to the top of a long snotty hill on a hot day. The hill was really wide with tracks snaking up thru the bush in places, I had made the wrong choice and was faced with a rocky gully with not enough momentum - FARK!!! comes to mind. It was an early ride and I was still getting the hang of the 3 speed auto. I just decide to jump off the bike and walk it over the rocky gully and jump back on, all without touching the clutch cus it didn't have one. I and others watching said, how Farking easy was that. On later rides if I could hang onto it that bike would climb anything.
Anyway - melted plastics - at the top of that hill Andrew Tyler finally arrived with his 175 Yamaha almost on fire with the plastics melted down over the red hot exhaust - boy did we laugh. I then looked at my very hot AE430 and the petrol was bubbling in the tank - I stopped laughing.
Auto clutches create a lot of extra heat and the standard cooling was a bit overwhealmed, an extra tank with another 600ml in the circuit cured that.

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