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

Unread post by **steve-e** » Sun Nov 06, 2011 10:43 pm

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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Simon Smith · Unread post by **Simon Smith** » Sun Nov 06, 2011 10:46 pm

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.

Unread post by **steve-e** » Sun Nov 06, 2011 10:48 pm

Yes, air cooled is the other version

Sorry for the edit, was catching up on Downton

realroadracer · Sun Nov 06, 2011 11:10 pm

And don't forget your caravan/motorhome water systems too.....like some idiot did last winter.....

Unread post by **steve-e** » Sun Nov 06, 2011 11:17 pm

I did that with the purple palace, now no hot water, the valvey thingammy froze and broke on the carver heater.

kew · Unread post by **kew** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 9:53 am

What we need is a colourless antifreeze so the scrutes can't see it when they look in the tank.

NickR · Unread post by **NickR** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 10:54 am

Our is already completely stripped!

The MIL was round at our house, so I disappeared into the workshop all weekend.

Jo Warriner · Unread post by **Jo Warriner** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 5:53 pm

Keith, I'm so shocked that you think people would do such a thing!

ChrisWells · Unread post by **ChrisWells** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 7:56 pm

Or get Engine Ice approved by your sanctioning bodies http://www.engineice.com/

Alan Richardson · Mon Nov 07, 2011 11:20 pm

Anti-freeze. Then leave it in.

Kensei · Unread post by **Kensei** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:07 am

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.

Unread post by **steve-e** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 9:22 pm

No clear cut winner in this poll then

Although the lumberjacks are definitely losing, but then as the song goes "they're ok" anyway.

Bob B · Unread post by **Bob B** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 10:41 am

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?

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