The fan on mine never kicked on automatically until it got to the mark all the way to the end of the white zone or in other words, about a needle width to being full red.
I put in a manual switch for when I'm running in traffic so I can kick the fan on at about 3/4. If you want to test that your fan works with the bike running, ground the wire coming off the sender located in the thermostat housing. For my manual switch, I just tapped into this wire and grounded the other side of the circuit.
Watch sticking your fingers in the fan with the bike off. When I park mine, and shut it off, the fan usually kicks on for a bit, shuts off like it's all cooled down and then kicks on again like it is possessed.
I Like the bar end mirror. Can you see out of it? I'm sick at looking at the inside of my elbows and was thinking about trying some.
For pics, I find it easiest to upload them to somewhere like PhotoBucket and copy the IMG tags into my post.
