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Bike is all waxed and tucked up in the garage ready for next year

When I lived in the UK I rode my CX500 all year round. Just stuffed newspapers down my jacket in winter. Most snow there is just slushy on the roads and gritted so no problem. So I dont understand why you wouldnt ride on 98% of days there. In your words, man up

Taz wrote:When I lived in the UK I rode my CX500 all year round. Just stuffed newspapers down my jacket in winter. Most snow there is just slushy on the roads and gritted so no problem. So I dont understand why you wouldnt ride on 98% of days there. In your words, man up

Why? Been there, done that and only ride for fun now.

Besides I,d get it awfully dirty

I bought my PCX specifically for the winter

QED, if you dont work and dont need to go to the shops, fair enough park the bike up over winter. For me its just a means of getting from A to B, either work, shops or to the marina to play with my boat. My kids sometimes come on the back. We have 2 scooter rally's a month here. Only done one so far and will do another soon but agree I do need good weather to want to go on a fun rally ride!

qed wrote:Bike is all waxed and tucked up in the garage ready for next year

dunno, whats the climate like where you are? does it regularly get below freezing day or night? snow, ice? how often?

here in osaka it only gets below freezing a handful of days per year and sometimes at night but not often. there is rarely snow and ice on the roads in the kansai plain. therefore, i ride all year in the low altitudes.

haildamage wrote:

qed wrote:Bike is all waxed and tucked up in the garage ready for next year

dunno, whats the climate like where you are? does it regularly get below freezing day or night? snow, ice? how often?

here in osaka it only gets below freezing a handful of days per year and sometimes at night but not often. there is rarely snow and ice on the roads in the kansai plain. therefore, i ride all year in the low altitudes.

Its pretty grim even in the summer tbh

just saying we dont know where you live from your info. how cold does it get at the center of the universe.

even if it isnt any colder than where i am, i wouldnt call you a wimp. i'd just say you arent as hardy a rider as some!

He lives in Yorkshire.
I live in Aberdeenshire and am still riding when there's no snow or ice about.

gn2 wrote:He lives in Yorkshire.

If thats the case then I think we can answer an emphatic YES

lol, nothing wrong with tucking her to sleep for the winter.

Though i ride all year round, just not in snow or ice, i do take public transport when the temp goes below freezing, just not worth the risk or frostbites! lol

Kudos to you for waxing her up too, need to wash and max mine soon, thought its not been a month since the last wax.

Minus 3 this morning and the roads are gritted, had to scrape the car windows.

Strangely the weather this year has been worse in Yorksire than Scotland. Whatever happened to global warming?

If I lived where you did, I'd move. Especially after these two posts: qed on precipitation and qed on stargazing in Yorkshire.


Anyways, back on topic, I won't ride if there is ice or if they salt the roads, so I wouldn't say you're a wimp. They probably salt the roads here maybe once every 3-5 winters, because most of the time we only get snow or ice on the roads a couple of days a year. If we had snow and ice and grit or salt, I'd be packing my bikes away for the winter too.

The roads here get salted frequently from the end of October till March.
Not unknown for them to be done in September.

They can also grit the roads during the summer to "condition" them. It's a skinflint way of getting rid of any surface polish

Bastards

yea, I bought mine and parked it. I'll take out a dust cloth an ever so delicately polish and remove the dust. I don't dare ride it. It might get dirty and i'd much rather put that 4.00 dollar a gallon gas in my Humvee and drive for a mile........just jokin

qed wrote:Bike is all waxed and tucked up in the garage ready for next year

WIMP
Just kidding mate, I will still be riding in the winter, But I only do about 25 miles a week

When I was on holiday last mth the buffet dinner included 'yorkshire pudding'. The lady in front of me was asking me what it was but I wasnt able to help though a vision of soft compound tires came into my head!

Roads salted last night and this morning, still riding mine (It lives outside too) I'm too tight fisted to pay the £31 per month parking permit charge (bike is free) or the £5 per day charge!!
Bad Ice yes I'll use the car maybe!

qed wrote:Bike is all waxed and tucked up in the garage ready for next year

Ditto that... Sat. I cleaned the screen and changed the oil, filled the gas tank, and dumped in some stablizer. Ran it on the stand for about 10 minutes, then parked it in the garage and covered it up for the winter.

Here in the Chicago area this time of year, there's no riding a bike in the winter. You could head to work in the morning and it could be 75 F outside and by the time you leave to go home it could be snowing. Then in the dead of winter zero - 20 F is common place.