Getting timeout on image.save() when the image is big

I'm getting a requests.exceptions.ReadTimeout: UnixHTTPConnectionPool(host='localhost', port=None): Read timed out. (read timeout=60) when trying to call image.save() on a big image.
If I double the timeout then everything works, but isn't image.save() supposed to return a stream of data?

Thanks!

Edit: The whole stack trace:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "script.py", line 46, in <module>
    main()
  File "script.py", line 32, in main
    img_save = image.save(2097152)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/docker/models/images.py", line 86, in save
    return self.client.api.get_image(self.id, chunk_size)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/docker/utils/decorators.py", line 19, in wrapped
    return f(self, resource_id, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/docker/api/image.py", line 40, in get_image
    res = self._get(self._url("/images/{0}/get", image), stream=True)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/docker/utils/decorators.py", line 46, in inner
    return f(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/docker/api/client.py", line 198, in _get
    return self.get(url, **self._set_request_timeout(kwargs))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 525, in get
    return self.request('GET', url, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 512, in request
    resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 622, in send
    r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 526, in send
    raise ReadTimeout(e, request=request)
requests.exceptions.ReadTimeout: UnixHTTPConnectionPool(host='localhost', port=None): Read timed out. (read timeout=60)

Start with docker/models/images.py and docker/api/image.py, then follow the timeout handling in docker/api/client.py and reproduce image.save() with a large image. Compare the response behavior with the documented streaming API and the supplied traceback; done means the timeout behavior and expected stream handling are verified and covered by an appropriate test.