Welcome to the forum, Ed! And what a lovely wife you must have! Certainly she has good taste in machinery!
You will find that the forum is a gold mine of useful (and sometimes entertaining) information and advice.
Re. your cooling fan, what makes you think it is not working? It is not supposed to run all the time, but will cycle on and off as needed for cooling. Also, the RTV900s tend to run with their temp gauges on the high side of the scale. A number of folks have replace the OEM gauges with after market models that show actual temperatures. But if it not in the red on the OEM scale, there is nothing to worry about.
But this may be stuff that you know well. So perhaps you can provide more details about why you think the fan might not be working? (If temp gauge is going into the red, have you checked that your radiator is clean, for example?)
Also, we like to see pics, so feel free to post!
Cheers,
Onfoot