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Well... i dunno... :lol

I only did about 100m total in the underground car-park :)

Do it once a week over winter layoff time. :)

I was tempted to take it out but it's SORN'd at the moment as of a couple of days ago.

Comfy and feels good though....

Gonna be a long winter this
 
You are sooooo in the ****.

If you think that you are going to be OK until March or April at this rate, your fecked. :lol

Straight jacket for Mr Weeksy! :megaphone :cheers
 
I nipped out on mine a couple of weeks ago, "Just to blow the cobwebs off" and ended up pulling power wheelies up the high street :)
 
if yer worried about getting it dirty weeksy,, get shut and buy some nice lladro china. easier to clean.
 
if yer worried about getting it dirty weeksy,, get shut and buy some nice lladro china. easier to clean.

weeksy is our resident OCD detailer. Sorry weeksy, rode home in a snowstorm last night and Andiamo is FILTHY!!! You don't have anything better to do so get that thing DIRDY DIRDY DIRDY!!!!! I won't have an opportunity to clean her until after the weekend as I am working the entire time.
Nothing like almost losing it b/c of diffraction thru the frozen sleet on ones visor.
 
spies is a top top rider !!!
but hell...my fave riders do *** all
i just love shaky byrne and tom sykes to bits ...aahh well !! :lol
 
Well, just to be a smartarse let me tell you about the ride I went on today :yes

Living here in sunny Melbourne Australia I am once more enjoying some warmer weather. The wife (VFR800) and I (tuoldo 03) went for a great little 300km ride in the hills and valleys out the west of Melbourne. Great weather, good roads, no coppers :thumbup

I'm now in shorts and a T and drinking an icy cider. Life is good in the antipodes!
 
The wife spent 18 months in Oz back in the day and loved it. I've been trying to persuade her to Emmigrate but our only allowed option for immigration was Adelaide which she doesn't fancy.
 
My wife to be spent three months there. Bought a Ducati in Canberra and then rode Sydney to Perth and back. Took me from Sydney to Adelaide via Melbourne when I went to visit. Now I am trying to get a nursing job in Melbourne. We are going to emigrate as well. **** this snow.
 
Deyago, I hate you, you are a ****.:yes
The weather is **** here, salt on the roads.:thumbdown
 
Just warm enuf here to keep the sleet from freezing, so it's sorta raining/sleeting like a m/f out there right now.... Better than -20C a couple of years ago though. 0400 hrs and my ******* insomnia is acting up again... AND I have to work two more shifts.
 
Weeksy 80% of engine wear occurs at start up, if you are laying it up best option is to remove the plugs pour some oil down the barrels and put it on paddock stands to save the tyres.
 
I ended up taking the 'Prilla to work and sure as *****, I was scraping frozen sleet offa my visor on the ride home. Not that much fun, but man, laying on the gas and feeling the back end trying to pass you as you accelerate is a blast. Flat trackin' Andiamo allll the way home. BOOOOOYAH!
 
Done the all year commute for years. But the wife got a new job Jan (2009) that dictated a second car. I am now a fair weather rider:biggrin

I will take the bike out on a sunny weekend though, if we get any,lol.
 
Weeksy 80% of engine wear occurs at start up, if you are laying it up best option is to remove the plugs pour some oil down the barrels and put it on paddock stands to save the tyres.

Explain to me how me starting it and running it is any worse than someone who rides their bike only at weekends ?

Or even someone who rides it every 3 days ?

I understand that concept that oil stays at the top end, so when left it all ends up at the bottom, but i'd have thought that was more a 1 day process ?

If i'm firing mine up once a fortnight etc then i can't see how it's a terribly bad thing.
 
It's a bad thing compared to NOT starting it every fortnight.

As Doc says the engine wear occurs when an engine is cold, all the tolerances are tight, the oil isn't up to temp. If you start an engine and run it for 100m as you describe it will wear the internals as badly as if you went off for the day. The other issue is that the engine will produce quite a bit of water as it warms up, which is normally evaporated as you run at full temp, this way you can cause internal corrosion issues.

I don't play with bikes in winter, nor do I squirt oil down plug holes - I had to strip a Honda 4 one year after I did that to get it going again.

BUT.

It is YOUR bike. If you like to get your bike fix once a week pootling up and down the car park, and you are aware of the above, then go for it. As you say it is no worse than actually running it. It would be a concern if you had long term plans for the beast, as you would wear the engine disproportionally to its mileage.

At the end of the day it is your decision, the above is just so you can make the decision with all the facts. :cheers
 

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