So I guess you really need to read the fine print to make sure you don't get a continuous charge.... Thanx...

 

I think I'll RIDE Tomorrow to charge the battery, adjust the Ohlins, and clear the cobwebs........


OOPS, Sorry....... wrong section.......HOWDY EVO BRO's!

 

Yea yea.... I think the only Cob webs are in your head. So yea a ride would do it right...

 

Try not to let idle for long period ,get on bike ,straighten it up and raise idle up 200 to 300 rpm until you feel heat in head and cylinder and then take it easy until it gets some miles on it.

 

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone for contributing to this post because this is a topic that my friends and I debate every year. I personally park mine and leave it untill spring.

In my area if we get 1 inch of snow, they throw down 2 inches of salt so my bikes stay in the garage the entire winter. My routine every fall is to fill the tank and add fuel stabilizer. I also put on the battery tender. My tender lights yellow if there is a fault or battery isnt taking a charge, flashes green while charging the battery, and goes to solid green and delivers a maintenance charge when it detects a full battery. Ive never had a battery fail before it was 6 years old so im sold on the tenders. Its also nice going out in the spring and pulling the bike cover off and hitting the starter button and never having a dead battery on initial startup.

 

I don't start mine unless its warm enough to go for a ride. Sometime days it's just better to just avoid going in the garage and seeing it sitting there because I know me, and I get to thinking I need to hear it run. I think tomorrow will be warm enough even with a 20mph south breeze.

 

I fire mine up a few times in the winter...just to keep it from sumping...I always keep the battery charged... but if I let it set too long it makes a mess in the floor...just crank it long enough to get the oil back in the tank...have an 84 that still has the 84 rings the MOTO company gave it..so must work OK.

 

Without a doubt the best place for different opinions and advice anywhere.

"If everyone did/thought the same thing we would all be driving black ford's"

 

Hey Tom,when your bike sumps,where does the oil start to drip from to make it to the floor ?
Mine has never done this....(I'm knocking on wood)

 

Exactly what happened to my BMW R75/5. After having to buy a couple of new mufflers, you don't do that the following year.

All my junk is hooked to BatteryTenders over the winter: Harley FLHS, 76 Jeep CJ5, Checkmate 219 Persuarder (dual batteries), Xcursion pontoon (90hp Yamaha-ha), Husqvarna zero turn mower, etc, etc....