Winterizing routines

[pizzleboy]

um baklava is a masedonian pastry dessert.

BALACLAVA is what you where under you helmet.

[Flash]

Definitely get a "battery Tender" to keep your battery in tiptop shape. Winter? Summer? I plug mine in all the time. Worth the money.

I agree with JohNLA. Call me crazy, but I just love to ride. I commute everyday to work and find any excuse to ride somemore.

My winterizing technique would be to keep on riding. Just be sure to get the right gear. I am already in the process of purchasing rain gear, winter gear, and I just got new racing leathers for my first Track Day coming up!!

Diehard rider or just plain Crazy. You decide.

[JasonB]

um baklava is a masedonian pastry dessert.

BALACLAVA is what you where under you helmet.

Ah well it was late and I wasnt gonna go to dictionary.com just for gstwin!

[Kerry]

baklava is a masedonian pastry dessert.

Ummm, not to get too picky, but isn't that spelled Macedonian?  

[pizzleboy]

probably, I was getting at defenition, not speling

[JasonB]

So now that we know what to do to put our bikes down for the winter, what do you do for the bike in the spring after its been winterized since this will be the first winter I've owned the bike and want to know what to have prepared for when the snow and ice thaws and the roads are rideable!

[dmp221]

um baklava is a masedonian pastry dessert.

BALACLAVA is what you where under you helmet.

Not Greek???  I thought they served it at the restaurant in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"  

Anyway, why don't they just call the thing a ski-mask??

[JasonB]

Anyway, why don't they just call the thing a ski-mask??

Friend of mine always called it a toboggon, I always thought he was gonna go get a sled.

[Kerry]

um baklava is a masedonian pastry dessert.

I thought they served it at the restaurant in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"

That makes sense.  Check out a map of Eastern Europe; Macedonia is right there where Greece attaches to the mainland.

[scratch]

I forgot to add:

Remove the spark plugs and squirt some good oil into the cylinders. Rotate the crank a few turns by hand to distribute the oil around the cylinder walls and then squirt some more oil to gradually seep past the rings to prevent them from rusting together with the cylinder walls. I use a syringe, with a curved nozzle, from one of those earwax kits, to squirt the oil around the cylinder. Oh, yeah, put back the spark plugs.

When bringing the bike out of storage, just reattach the battery, maybe let out a little air from the tyres, and ride! All the preparation before the winter is designed to keep the bike in a ridable condition. The oil in the cylinders will just burn off.

[pizzleboy]

I use a can of engine kill/store instead of oil in cylinders.

I suppose the oil would be cheaper.