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If your bike's not in 1000 pieces over winter..
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 10:43 pm
by steve-e
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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Re: If your bike's not in 1000 pieces over winter..
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 10:46 pm
by Simon Smith
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.
Re: If your bike's not in 1000 pieces over winter..
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 10:48 pm
by steve-e
Yes, air cooled is the other version
Sorry for the edit, was catching up on Downton

Re: If your bike's not in 1000 pieces over winter..
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 11:10 pm
by realroadracer
And don't forget your caravan/motorhome water systems too.....like some idiot did last winter.....
Re: If your bike's not in 1000 pieces over winter..
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 11:17 pm
by steve-e
I did that with the purple palace, now no hot water, the valvey thingammy froze and broke on the carver heater.
Re: If your bike's not in 1000 pieces over winter..
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 9:53 am
by kew
Re: If your bike's not in 1000 pieces over winter..
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 10:54 am
by NickR
Our is already completely stripped!
The MIL was round at our house, so I disappeared into the workshop all weekend.

Re: If your bike's not in 1000 pieces over winter..
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 5:53 pm
by Jo Warriner
Keith, I'm so shocked that you think people would do such a thing!
Re: If your bike's not in 1000 pieces over winter..
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 7:56 pm
by ChrisWells
Or get Engine Ice approved by your sanctioning bodies
http://www.engineice.com/
Re: If your bike's not in 1000 pieces over winter..
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 11:20 pm
by Alan Richardson
Anti-freeze. Then leave it in.
Re: If your bike's not in 1000 pieces over winter..
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:07 am
by Kensei
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.
Re: If your bike's not in 1000 pieces over winter..
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 9:22 pm
by steve-e
No clear cut winner in this poll then

Although the lumberjacks are definitely losing, but then as the song goes "they're ok" anyway.
Re: If your bike's not in 1000 pieces over winter..
Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 10:41 am
by Bob B
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
Another question - would it be beneficial to use de-ionised or distilled water as a coolant to slow damage?