# What temp do you let your bike warm up to?

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**Category:** Shift518 Automotive\
**Created:** [June 13, 2009, 7:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-temp-do-you-let-your-bike-warm-up-to/244742 "2009-06-13T19:48:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vovchandr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/vovchandr/32/6275_2.png) [@Vovchandr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Vovchandr)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 7:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-temp-do-you-let-your-bike-warm-up-to/244742/10 "2009-06-14T07:42:21Z")

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> [@kinda new.....](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/kinda-new/19328/6):
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> Your internal combustion engine on your bike does not know if it’s powering your bike, a car, PJB’s anal toys, etc…
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> In warm weather, you can start it up, and as soon as it has oil pressure, you can ride it and be totally safe, as long as you don’t rip on it until the oil is up to temp. If you don’t have an oil temp gauge, the oil takes roughly twice as long to get to operating temp as the coolant does.

Well what temp is “up to temp”, that the question at the end of the day. Nobody exactly know what it is, and just waiting 'till your coolant fan turns on at ~210 degrees is just silly.

So 100 seems to be the magical number.

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