thermostat

Hi all, time for my next weird issue. Again, I hope this is only a weird issue to me. The Vulcan is running great, I think I chased down it's electrical gremlins related to lighting, and now I'm dealing with some cooling system oddities. I think I have two issues. One related to temperature...

Just bought a 1995 with 14k miles on it. In wonderful shape. Road a couple hundred miles this weekend (wow is that easy to do) and watched the temp gauge go from almost all the way cool-left to past the mid point of green. Never got in the red even though it was pushing 90 out. But when I am...

I think my bike has been running too hot. When I put the engine back in, I filled the cooling system, but never bled it, so I'm thinking that's the problem. Since it's gonna be 100 here today, I thought it was a good time to do it. I started the bike, and opened the bleeder valve (I'm assuming...