WINTER Storage
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10-15-2009, 02:36 PM
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I keep mine in the kitchen. Oh yeah, the OL loves it. 
As I'm working on it and I need to run it, I just roll it out on the back deck. 
As I'm working on it and I need to run it, I just roll it out on the back deck.
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10-15-2009, 06:30 PM
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Hey Gump,
Nice post - I had a thought on Battery storage - 99% probably know this, but if you don't, then now you do. Concrete will drain a battery, put in on wood or whatever but NOT on the concrete floor.
I can't remember the physics of why - gettin' old is a bitch.
Pat
Nice post - I had a thought on Battery storage - 99% probably know this, but if you don't, then now you do. Concrete will drain a battery, put in on wood or whatever but NOT on the concrete floor.
I can't remember the physics of why - gettin' old is a bitch.
Pat
#16
10-16-2009, 06:51 AM
You are a man Gump that loves his ride no doubt,and you take good care of your machine it shows.You also have a good looking woman.We are both lucky men that way.I do things to my bikes much like you do except no longer take the batteries out because of the Tenders,which stay hooked up all the time the bikes are not running.
Condensation,not an issue anymore,bikes are parked in a garage away from any window,and covered.All my bare polished aluminum is treated with AutoSol polishing cream, the best I have used to date.It flat out protects that precious metal.
Spring cleaning takes no time at all,I look forward to it every year,just like you.
Condensation,not an issue anymore,bikes are parked in a garage away from any window,and covered.All my bare polished aluminum is treated with AutoSol polishing cream, the best I have used to date.It flat out protects that precious metal.
Spring cleaning takes no time at all,I look forward to it every year,just like you.
#17
10-16-2009, 07:03 AM
Road Master
Think about that for a minute...if he DOES put those in "cold storage," how much NICER the pic would be! LOL, good post Gump. Lots of good info there! For the skeptics out there about getting the tires off the cement floor....I've never lifted a bike over the winter in the past 44 years, and I've never had any issues with the tires. Of course, there have been years where I had to ride through the winter cause the bike was the only transportation I had! And to this day, the wife and I both still ride every month as long as the roads are clear/dry!
#19
10-16-2009, 07:20 AM
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I wax her up top to bottom, fill the fuel tank to the top, plug in the battery tender and forget about her until spring, change the fluids then. Been doing this 33 years and never had an issue at all. She is kept in an unheated shed too.
