storing your pride and joy over winter - where?

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I am putting mine in my parents garage when the proper frost settles in - will disconnect the battery and put it on a paddock stand with a cover over it - thats where it will probably stay for the foreseeable future as I fancy a Supermoto next year and dont want to sell the SV so thought I might as well "mothball" it for now...

What if you don't have a garage? Any solutions for the least fortunate ones? Is the Stormex cover enough?

[yorkie_chris]

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.

Yarp.

Good slarting of ACF50 stops the rot though.

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by maxinc

What if you don't have a garage? Any solutions for the least fortunate ones? Is the Stormex cover enough?

Rain does not do any harm, I don't think covers actually make any difference except stop you getting a wet bum in the morning.

Same advice... make sure everything is well serviced and add grease and ACF50. Maybe wax the paintwork if you're "that sort" to care about such things

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.

Yep, which is why I ride through winter providing there is no white stuff settling on the ground. I must have only ever cleaned my SV about 5 times in two years.

Slightly ontopic, but I may be selling a cair-o-port for a bike as it got thrown in with my bike purchase and I have no use for it.

http://www.proppa.com/cair-o-port-mo...ent-5905-p.asp

Mine will stay under my Stormex (no other choice). Depending on how lazy I am I might ACF50 it.

[Sid Squid]

You can leave the Optimate connected as long as you like, it will be fine.

Originally Posted by Sid Squid

You can leave the Optimate connected as long as you like, it will be fine.

LOL I turned mine off last night. Fook it, it's going back on.

Our bikes are kept in a cabin.
I use the bike throughout winter but the SRAD and gsxr have thier chargers on throughout

With regard to the charging,my bike is plugged in constantly while in the garage,be it for a couple of days or months and my last battery was seven year old before I had to replace it
My charger is a Power Commander 900 and once it has brought the battery up to the optimum charge it goes on to standby and will only charge the battery if the charge level drops below the optimum.
The charger is similar to the Optimate but about half the price.