How a motorcyclist gets through winter

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• CH

  @Chris-hq7nl · 11 days ago

  If there's not salt on the ground and it's above 30F, I will ride. Once you figure out good winter gear with proper layering it's very doable.

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• H2

  @h2oGrunt · 9 days ago

  I store my bike in the living room. It's a show piece for 5-6 months a year.

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• PA

  @pauloalves4337 · 11 days ago

  Since there is no Snow where i live... My bike rides 365 days a year.

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• SG

  @sgt.grinch3299 · 11 days ago

  I’m retired and I put my bike away for the winter then I hibernated. If we get a warm day I may go out but not often because the titanium rod and bolts in my leg and hip gets cold and there is nothing I can do about it.

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• AZ

  @Azlandre · 10 days ago

  Bundle... that's how you get through winter...

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• CH

  @christophersiano969 · 1 day ago

  PMS is a real and agonizing condition.<br><br>Parked Motorcycle Syndrome.<br><br>I&apos;m in New England. &nbsp;The winter roads are snow, ice, salt, and more. &nbsp;I have no way to wash salt from the bike, so I have to wait when the roads are coated in it. &nbsp;But even so, I have managed in more than 20 years of riding, to get in one day every month. &nbsp;It might be short. &nbsp;It might be for the dumbest of reason. &nbsp;But it happens.<br><br>Because the mental anguish of seeing the machine sit during those long winter days is akin to torture. &nbsp;<br><br>To keep the down time as short as possible, I have the bike set up to power heated gear. &nbsp;I have heated pants, jacket, gloves, and socks. &nbsp;The grips heat up (nice even on cool summer nights), and I can even warm the seat. &nbsp;We had one glorious New Year&apos;s Day where the roads were clean and dry. &nbsp;It had rained just after Christmas, the salt was gone. &nbsp;The temps plummeted. &nbsp; A buddy and I decided a ride was needed. &nbsp;We rode down to Newport, RI. &nbsp;We went to watch the idiots do their polar plunge in near zero conditions. &nbsp;And yet, here were two bigger idiots who even with the heated gear took nearly 5 minutes of undressing to sit down in a pub for lunch. &nbsp;<br><br>But, those are the rides that create the stories. &nbsp;Those are the rides that you replay in your head when you open the garage to a wall of snow wondering if the snowblower will get out. &nbsp;Those are the stories that help keep the PMS at bay. &nbsp;And I seek out those magical moments every year.

• CO

  @col.mustard1233 · 11 days ago

  When I lived up North I rode year round. &nbsp;If it is so cold your bike doesn&apos;t want to start, stick a hair dryer in front of the air cleaner for about ten minutes.

• SO

  @SolidThunder133 · 9 days ago

  Im gonna be riding it through the entire winter

• GA

  @gazz9995 · 7 hours ago

  these fuel price think ill ride as long as i can

• AU

  @auraanima552 · 7 days ago

  It definitely helps having a short commute to work. You can justify throwing a leg over daily in Winter so long as snow or sleet or freezing temps don&apos;t make things too hazardous. I&apos;ll never forget the first winter on my honda rebel.

• AK

  @akunamii4823 · 8 days ago (edited)

  I HATET The winter two years ago, so I just made two hobbies. I rode motorcycles on summer then I crochet on the winter.<br><br>Two sides I look forward once in a while. You forget but slightly miss, but the burning desire isn’t as bad.😊

• ET

  @ETRiderPH · 11 days ago

  Solution. I store my bike in November, then travel to the Philippines for the winter and ride my bike there until I get back to Canada in the spring. Hah...take that winter!

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