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Author Topic: Do you lay your bike to rest over the winter....?  (Read 9812 times)

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Do you lay your bike to rest over the winter....?
« on: October 23, 2006, 09:22:34 PM »
If so how do you know its time.... do you wait til its too cold to ride in leathers or do you wait til they bring out that annoying salt stuff
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Re: Do you lay your bike to rest over the winter....?
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2006, 09:31:58 PM »
I like to ride dry days in the winter.  I don't do salt though!  Usually it stays up on stands in the garage from about Nov to Feb.
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Re: Do you lay your bike to rest over the winter....?
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2006, 09:38:08 PM »
I am not keen on the salt....

I judge my riding days on the ease of cleaning my bike.... If I think it will take to long I won't ride in it....

I know I know I am a lazy git
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Re: Do you lay your bike to rest over the winter....?
« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2006, 09:43:21 PM »
Well I hope there's still some nice weekends to come. Over here they have the annoying tendency that as soon as they see a little bit of snow....be it in Switzerland...they start salting the roads [wall] Don't mind the cold, but salt  :icon_puke_r:
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Re: Do you lay your bike to rest over the winter....?
« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2006, 09:45:47 PM »
when I bought my new 636 in 05 i rod it back in the rain and they had just salted the road took me ages to clean it and it ruined all the rubbers so I vowed not to take the 10 out in the salt
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Re: Do you lay your bike to rest over the winter....?
« Reply #5 on: October 23, 2006, 10:09:41 PM »
After running an R1 through last winter  :shock:

I spent ages trying to keep on top of cleaning it etc, but it still looked well used  :cry:

Plus a had quite a few scary moments on my daily commute  :shock: :shock:





I now use my ER-5 in the bad weather, the ZX10R only comes out on un-salted roads  B-)

It's a lot easier to clean and maintain

Andy


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Re: Do you lay your bike to rest over the winter....?
« Reply #6 on: October 23, 2006, 10:17:34 PM »
jees rossi thats some heavy snow :shock:
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Re: Do you lay your bike to rest over the winter....?
« Reply #7 on: October 23, 2006, 10:41:12 PM »
same for me salt = no ride...that's when the Husky makes an appearance  :icon_thumright:
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Re: Do you lay your bike to rest over the winter....?
« Reply #8 on: October 23, 2006, 10:43:17 PM »
I know, tell me about it  :shock:

I commute 25 mile each way of which 90% is on national speed limit country roads. It's brilliant when the weather is nice, but it also means that my route isn't gritted in winter. I had quite a few scary moments on the R1  :shock: :shock:


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Re: Do you lay your bike to rest over the winter....?
« Reply #9 on: October 25, 2006, 12:21:55 AM »
i use my bike every day through out the year, rain shine snow and salt BUT this year ive gone and bought a KTM 660 SMC :lol: so this year the zx10 can stay nice and clean and i'll ride the KTM in all the shite weather


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Re: Do you lay your bike to rest over the winter....?
« Reply #10 on: October 25, 2006, 02:10:24 AM »
Quote from: CTD on October 25, 2006, 12:21:55 AM
i use my bike every day through out the year, rain shine snow and salt BUT this year ive gone and bought a KTM 660 SMC :lol: so this year the zx10 can stay nice and clean and i'll ride the KTM in all the shite weather




let see some pics of the orange beastie  :occasion14:
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Re: Do you lay your bike to rest over the winter....?
« Reply #11 on: October 25, 2006, 11:51:11 AM »
this is the day i got it, now has graphics and an Akroprovic can :shock: much better
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Re: Do you lay your bike to rest over the winter....?
« Reply #12 on: October 25, 2006, 12:11:51 PM »
What a gorgeous bike  B-)

That looks much much much cooler than my run around   :-/

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Re: Do you lay your bike to rest over the winter....?
« Reply #13 on: October 25, 2006, 12:15:35 PM »
that KTM is gorgeous....

I want it  :cry:
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Re: Do you lay your bike to rest over the winter....?
« Reply #14 on: October 25, 2006, 12:51:31 PM »
I can see Rossi's ER5 but no KTM, arggggggghhhh and I'm on a different computer . I think Glenn hides nice bikes from me to protect me from the power of buying bikes  :whip2:
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