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I'm extremely happy with this option as I am in the same situation as I don't have a garage and definitely no room for a trailer.

FLRYDR

 

My guess is that it is heat damage from the sun. It get extremely hot in Arizona. Just watch what direct sunlight does to your dashboard in your car when it's been exposed to extremely hot direct sunlight. Mine stays in a friends garage with his 2 Harleys. My roommate works out of the garage at the house and I don't want to temp fate by leaving it there for him to drop something on.

 

OH FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, THE SPOKES!

 

The AZ sun, mostly. The bags getting wet in the rain, then baked by the sun. The plastic liner inside the lid cracked from the shrinking leather and buckled, which let the leather shrink some more.

I bought the bike used, so defective or not, there's not much I can do. I spent a couple of days this winter soaking and reforming the lid, and got it back into shape, but it went right back to this after a couple days of riding. SoI soaked and reformed again a month ago, and while it was in the right shape I riveted a length of metal stock under the lid. It still deformed a little, but looks a lot better now.

 

I couldn't imagine leaving my Road King outside for any length of time. Maybe you shouldconsider a heated storage unit close by. Leaving it inside of a trailer might still cause "sweating" inside the trailer that could be harmful to nuts, bolts, chrome, etc.

 

Lots of good responses here. I too left a bike outside for many years in New Jersey, Georgia, New York (Governors Island) and Virginia. Always worried about it getting ripped off, bird crap, scratched up, etc.Parked it in my kitchen for some years I had a sliding glass door I could get through. Have a one car garage now which I've learned is way to small. Do what you gotta do to keep her safe and let you sleep. The enclosed trailer is a good option if you have a place you're allowed to do that. Many Home Owners Associations, Condo Associations, aka **** parties, prohibit it. worse case use a cover and a good lock and chain. Mine was protected by a Smith and Wesson alarm System.

 

If you do leave it outside, and the paint turns to sh*t, just tell everyone it's a new color... white denim.

 

I'd be more worried about theft than anything.Like someone said,I'd put it in the house before I'd leave it outside.

 

until the trailer gets stolen. That happened to a good friend of mine with a Pro-Stock Harley drag bike in the trailer.....

~John

 

Bikes are tough and when I lived in the barracks in SDak, the bike was parked out side all year round. The machine really seemed to thrive when I'd brush off the snow and ride her up to Deadwood. So don't baby the thing.