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Winterizing?
- Thread starter mntngrown
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akbeemer
SURVIVOR
Easier to winterize than to “summarize” against 95% humidity and 95 degrees. Former Georgia resident here. We all have our thermometer to bear.
Wrong or Right?
So every fall, November or December (depending upon snowfall) my final rides end with the bikes hot and changing the engine, the transmission, and final drive oils. Christmas preparations are getting close so I then abandon the garage. Over the winter I do a complete service, minus bleeding the brakes. The brakes I do in late March or mid-April, just before rolling the bikes out for their first rides of the season. I also do not turn the engines over with new oil until those first rides. My heavily insulated garage usually remains at 45F all winter, except the few days I work on the bikes (or watch operas and other DvVDS which my wife does not enjoy), which then becomes 55-60ish F.
I have been told by some more mechanically experienced than me that I should be turning the engine over immediately with the fresh oil and the brakes need to be bleed along with the other fluids, not in the early spring.
I've been doing this routine with both bikes for maybe 12 winters. Is my method going to one day give me grief or should I listen to my more experienced friends.
So every fall, November or December (depending upon snowfall) my final rides end with the bikes hot and changing the engine, the transmission, and final drive oils. Christmas preparations are getting close so I then abandon the garage. Over the winter I do a complete service, minus bleeding the brakes. The brakes I do in late March or mid-April, just before rolling the bikes out for their first rides of the season. I also do not turn the engines over with new oil until those first rides. My heavily insulated garage usually remains at 45F all winter, except the few days I work on the bikes (or watch operas and other DvVDS which my wife does not enjoy), which then becomes 55-60ish F.
I have been told by some more mechanically experienced than me that I should be turning the engine over immediately with the fresh oil and the brakes need to be bleed along with the other fluids, not in the early spring.
I've been doing this routine with both bikes for maybe 12 winters. Is my method going to one day give me grief or should I listen to my more experienced friends.
6322
Member
Your registration actually expires.... how 20th century.
Yep. Oh, you permanent plate guys... MT offers you a tremendous deal. Good on you!
orforester
Member
I ride mine every month of the year, and no I don't live in CA or FL! Good Olde Oregon, what's a little water!
