If your bike's not in 1000 pieces over winter..

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If your bike's not in 1000 pieces over winter..

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Anti-freeze or empty? An interesting discussion started, so what do people think/know?

Apart from just cooling liquid, what else should be done to prepare a machine for winter? (Gatey, sensible options, not putting it in the loft ;) )
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Steve,

You need two new options:

1) Mine is in a heated garage.
2) It's air cooled anyway.

I would tick both of those.
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Yes, air cooled is the other version ;)

Sorry for the edit, was catching up on Downton :lol:
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And don't forget your caravan/motorhome water systems too.....like some idiot did last winter.....
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I did that with the purple palace, now no hot water, the valvey thingammy froze and broke on the carver heater.
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Re: If your bike's not in 1000 pieces over winter..

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What we need is a colourless antifreeze so the scrutes can't see it when they look in the tank. :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Our is already completely stripped! :shock:

The MIL was round at our house, so I disappeared into the workshop all weekend. ;)
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Keith, I'm so shocked that you think people would do such a thing!
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Or get Engine Ice approved by your sanctioning bodies http://www.engineice.com/
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Re: If your bike's not in 1000 pieces over winter..

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Anti-freeze. Then leave it in.
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Re: If your bike's not in 1000 pieces over winter..

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ChrisWells wrote:Or get Engine Ice approved by your sanctioning bodies http://www.engineice.com/
Looks like great stiff. Unfortunately change doesn't come easily over here (look at the threads about f2 triples).

My bike is currently stripped waiting for its new engine. But it would just be getting drained.
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No clear cut winner in this poll then :idea: Although the lumberjacks are definitely losing, but then as the song goes "they're ok" anyway.
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A question from a well known idiot and dinosaur - "How would some older Japanese oil cooled engines be viewed by the authorities today as only water may be used as a coolant," Sorry, but it needed to be asked :roll:

Another question - would it be beneficial to use de-ionised or distilled water as a coolant to slow damage?
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