I am on Long Island...so my winters are like yours....

Besides the tender and STA-BIL.....I also have a "heat stick"......It is about 18 inches long and it gets "hot" to the touch....I clean and wax the bike and put a cover over it in my shed (not heated)...The heat stick draws the moisture and condensation on to the heat stick and not on the bike....works great......until I ride again

 

Never heard of that! I am going to google it......

 

I also live on Long Island, also keeping mine non heated shed.

Fill up with Fuel, add some stabilizer. I dont bother changing oil just make sure it is proper level. I change it in the spring so I ride with fresh oil (6 one way, half a dozen the other) Make sure tires are proper pressure. Battery Tender.

CLEAN IT!! WAX Paint and CHROME!!!!

Make sure there are no bags of Weed Killer etc anywhere near the bike. It actually promotes corrosion - I kid you not.

Put a piece of wood (Flat plywood) or rubber under the kick stand so it is not directly on the cement

I put my bike in an inflatable vinyl bubble that exchanges the air every 3-4 hours and prevents anything from falling on it (cost me $125 on ebay)

Treat the seat and any other leather with a good conditioner.

I do not fog my motor, see no need for it personally.

Above all else do not START it unless you intend on riding it for a good amount of time. Otherwise the moisture and condensation will develop quite rapidly and ruin the chrome etc.

 

Peg, I am just a few minutes north of you... Scrambled to get my bikes into their garage Saturday afternoon, literally just before the snow. I had planned on riding a few more weeks.

Plow-able snow before Halloween... Crazy! Still cooking on the grill and waiting for power! God bless those line workers!

 

OK so my bike is cleaned and waxed and the Sea Foam preservative is in the tank, run through the engine, the tank is filled to the top, and the bike is on blocks of wood in the corner of the garage with the battery tender attached.

And now I have to ride it up to a shop where it will spend a few weeks while a fiberglass seat pan is made for it (was going to do this in Spring but the seat maker wants to do it over the winter).

So I assume when I get it back I just put more Sea Foam in and run it through then top off the tank and put her back in storage?

 

Depends on how far you have to ride it. If it's just few miles, just top it off on the way home. If more add the seafoam and gas ibn the right proportion. Since the fuel in teh system already has seafopam in it, you might not have to run more thru. I'd be more bummed about the prospect of it getting filthy on the ride there and back and having to clean everything again.

 

i was just told that at the hd dealership the other day good to hear it from somebody other then those *****

 

I just put a dehumidifier in my garage, I don't think its the cold you gotta worry about, its the damp, this thing pulls about a pint a day from the air, I'm real pleased.

 

Before I pulled it into my lower basement, I had it in the garage and the humidity on a rainy/wet day put a fog of moisture all over my bike. Not good. Glad to have it in the warm dry basement.

 

My wife just started a new Newsletter - especially designed for women. Real Women and Motorcycles. Just so happens, her lasted issue has a great article written by a female mechanic on what to do with your bike over the winter - from if you can ride it occasionally, to totally winterizing it.

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