storing your pride and joy over winter - where?

For those of you that dont battle the ice and snow over winter time where do you store your bike?

I'm thinking of putting mine behind the sofa in the bay window this year

[fizzwheel]

In the garage.

I give it a good wash, make sure all the fluids and levels are topped up as they should be, make sure the chain has a good coat of lube on it as well. I also take the battery out and thats about it.

I bring the battery indoors and pop it onto the optimate. If I had power in the garage I woudlnt even bother doing that and just leave the bike on the optimate all through the winter.

Ive decided i want to clean little gixer and look at her spotless all those cold winter months bit of a focal point for the room too

What fizz said, in the garage under a dust cover fluids checked etc. The only difference is the optimate bit. In the instructions it says never leave on for more than a 12 hour period (or summit like that) so it just goes on the optimate once a week, on a sunday to be precise.

Originally Posted by Amplimator

What fizz said, in the garage under a dust cover fluids checked etc. The only difference is the optimate bit. In the instructions it says never leave on for more than a 12 hour period (or summit like that) so it just goes on the optimate once a week, on a sunday to be precise.

My bike is on the optimate permanently, never seems to do it any harm.

Left my RSV on it for 4 months last year and it started first press afterwards.

Mine stays in a damp garage with all the rest of my bikes. if it's clean when it goes in then woopdi-do, but I won't polish it specially. I'll drag it out during winter and go for a ride when it suits me, then put it back with road salt on it and sod the consequences. It's a bike - it's not your lover or your child, it's merely a collection of metal, plastic and rubber parts and nothing more. It can be cleaned and tarted up to look good once the urge to sell it kicks in, and that's what I do.

Bikes are built to be ridden for more hours than they are polished.

Originally Posted by Lozzo

Mine stays in a damp garage with all the rest of my bikes. if it's clean when it goes in then woopdi-do, but I won't polish it specially. I'll drag it out during winter and go for a ride when it suits me, then put it back with road salt on it and sod the consequences. It's a bike - it's not your lover or your child, it's merely a collection of metal, plastic and rubber parts and nothing more. It can be cleaned and tarted up to look good once the urge to sell it kicks in, and that's what I do.

Bikes are built to be ridden for more hours than they are polished.

Love it ha ha ha

Originally Posted by danf1234

My bike is on the optimate permanently, never seems to do it any harm.

Left my RSV on it for 4 months last year and it started first press afterwards.

An optimate is supposed to fool the battery into thinking the bikes being used. Who do you know that rides for 4 months non-stop? Im not saying its right, or wrong. Im just saying thats how i do it tis all.

Never even thought about it like, I jsut assumed that was it's intended purpose. Might turn it of tonight now lol!

Originally Posted by Lozzo

Mine stays in a damp garage with all the rest of my bikes. if it's clean when it goes in then woopdi-do, but I won't polish it specially. I'll drag it out during winter and go for a ride when it suits me, then put it back with road salt on it and sod the consequences. It's a bike - it's not your lover or your child, it's merely a collection of metal, plastic and rubber parts and nothing more. It can be cleaned and tarted up to look good once the urge to sell it kicks in, and that's what I do.

Bikes are built to be ridden for more hours than they are polished.