Can you pay your local dealer to store it during the winter? Do you have a friend, neighbor or relative with a garage you can rent/borrow?

 

I could always store it with a friend, but none too close. Thought I would keep it close, but might be better to drop it off and sleep easy at night.

 

No doubt it would be nice to have it nearby but I would store it anywhere inside rather than leave it out during the winter exposed to all the elements, even covered. Corrosion can make a new bike look old and tired in pretty short order.

Get it to a friends garage. Put some fuel stabilizer in it. Take the battery home and hook it up to a battery tender. Put a cheap dust cover on the bike and rest easy.

 

In your living room...or move to where storage is not necessary.

 

You could always prospect for an M/C, that's why they have clubhouses and there's more and more non-1%er ones every year it seems. But back to the original, plywood or even carpet remnants are a must under the tires.

 

what about a self-storage place? There are tons of them here in Texas, don't know about Maryland.

 

I live in Dundalk and we rode year round.

 

For the cost of those, you can put at a dealership for the winter.

Or, as someone else mentioned, a self storage garage.

 

A buddy of mine just ordered this:

http://www.cycleshell.com/

Looks great. It has a bottom so your wheels are already off the concrete. You anchor it into the ground and it also locks. Can't wait until he gets it so I can check it out. I don't store my bike for the winter, but sometimes I can't ride for a couple weeks in a row due to weather so it would be nice to have a cover that the squirrels can't get into.


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I am planning to ride mine as often as possible so have no plans to winterize I have a cover to put on it under my porch over hang...dumb a$$ I am moved to a house with no garage but that was before the bike...never again I tell you never