winter on the way
 

as the weather is soon goin to change for ppl who ride all year round does anyone change anythink to there bike for the wather??

only ting i do is lub my chain more often and fit the oxford mitts and have my watter proff suit on all the time

bike avin new sprokits and front pads in october

what u do to yours

Re: winter on the way
 

Nothing. :D

Strange - I was thinking of doing my winterising thing.

I have just re-waterproofed all my jackets and trousers. Dug out my mitts.

I don't do anything other than make sure I have made a sensible schedule for the tyre replacement - new ones on around the beginning of December - and made sure that I have set aside time for services from the end of November.

I have asked for Oxford hot grips for my birthday this year (2 hopes of that I think)

The rest of the preparation is getting some decent reading in for the longer evenings. Have you thought of a dictionary?

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:D :D :D :twisted:

Yep. Gonna dig my muffs out, get me hot grips fitted and re-proof the suit soonish. Anyone got any products they recommend?

lalalalalalalala it's not winter yet !!!!!!!! :evil:

Bloody hell, Jon its not even September. Where do you live....bloody Manitoba?

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Yea both are NikWax products - First wash with Tech Wash, then wash again in TX.Direct Wash-in

Nice and clean and revived.

It was the last chance to get a 3 day weekend and do all the other weekend stuff

Winter? Tsk. That and Gloomy Miserable Time - but I'll deal with it when it happens and not a moment before, and absolutely not in August :D

Yes indeed I am battening down the hatches as we speak. I have logs piled up against all the walls and a supply of bottled water and tinned food that should see us through to spring. :wink:

What he said. I used the same and its good stuff that came highly recommended. Might need a couple of washes if its been a while tho, mnine did :oops:

Its not even autumn yet !!!

But when winter does come, and thats not for a while, I just lather anything that looks like it might go rusty in ACF50 or WD40.

Fitting a fenda extenda (if you haven't already done so) might also be an idea, or carry a wee tin of WD40 around with you, for when your bike decides it wants to be a 325 single when it rains.

:D

Scottoiler.

Fenda extenda.

Heated gloves/glove liners/grips/overgrips/handlebar muffs/handguards (my hands are always cold whatever I use!!). Only warm combination I've tried so far was heated glove liners with Oxford hot hands with Oxford muffs, but that was on a Divvy, cant get the muffs to fit the SV. There is a post about hand guards from a Vstrom on Augusts forum, I'm going to try these with glove liners this winter (see my post asking about wiring accessories).

My old lewis leathers jacket with a fleece gilet (£15 at Decathlon) plus thick jumper and thermal vest is enough to keep my upper body warm. Leather pants are a must, although I used quilted wax cotton Belstaff bottoms happily for a few winters until I discovered leather.

I run my tires 1-2 psi down in colder weather. The idea is that it generates more heat = better grip and I swear by it, but it's probably more my thinking that it helps and it giving me more confidence, than it making a real big improvement.

It's been winter for 2 months here :)

Heated grips or gloves... Good quality cordura jacket and trousers. Waterproof boots.

For the bike, ACF50. It's the business. Spray a good coat on in september, and you could probably never wash the bike again till march. I wash it once a month, anyway, and it's come through 3 winters looking better than most "washed daily" winter commuters.

I make sure my heated grips are working, my electric jacket liner,

I mix a bit of parrafin with automatic transmission fluid to reduce the viscosity of the ATF I use in my scottoiler,

I start putting gas line antifreeze (isopropyl) in my gas

and mount my winter tires

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Northwind, is FS365 from scottoiler the same thing as ACF50 ?

All the stuff under my tank visible through the gaps in the frame is still looking brand new but very vulnerable to winter attack, would I be OK spraying FS365 onto it all ? Wuold the fact that its water based affect the electrics ?

I've used waxoil in the past but it looks unsightly and is hard to get off, what do you all use ?

No its not the same thing. The FS365 is water soluable and you have to reapply it frequently. ACF50 was produced for the airline industry and 1 or 2 applications should last considerably longer the FS365.

ACF50 also has a very nice smell when it burns off your downpipes and other rather warm engine bits.. can produce large clouds of smoke as well.. which is always worrying first time you find that out... :lol: