So I can escape X factor shit on the tv and go tinker with my bike, it's absolutely shite!! Enough said!!
Get yourself an oil filled radiator mate. I have 1 in the garage and it made all the difference when tinkering with the bikes. If need be you can plug in a thermostat type adapter socket that will switch it on once it drops below a certain set temperature.
Pretty much where I am now, but I'll take the bike back down to my dads garage where the heating is and let it hibernate cossy
Without sound very stupid, why does the garage need to be heated to keep your bike over winter? is it taking TLC to the extreme
Suppressing all enveloping festering damp is another good reason. It encroaches on fixings, invades electrics, it is a major killer of all things shiny and difficult to clean. My workshop is insulated, as near weather proofed as a wooden out building can be and through the winter has a space tube heater on an RCD, permanently. Blades, bits and tools stay fur free all year round. It'll still drop to near freezing in there but its a dry cold. We've decided to bite the bullet now and build a new double garage, where I'll have my own input from the outset. This will be a haven for my cars, bikes and me to fettle, detail, store and most importantly hide during the endemic onslaught of Strictly come fecking dancing each year. It might even become a build thread...
I,ve got a wood burner in my shed, a mate made it from an old gas bottle. Its brill toasty warm, free fuel and you can do bacon butties and boil the kettle on it.
You'd think wouldn't ya ............. but many years back I had a large paraffin heater in my garage with 2 bikes and it never went armageddon
Surely a little blow heater set at a certain temp ( normally the lowest setting ) will be sufficient enough to stop the chill n keep the garage warm enuf for you to be in there for few hrs shud the need arise?? i always take the spare kettle in n have a few brews whilst cleaning or doing wot litte maintenance i can do that helps to keep me warm to plus wearing few layers if warm clothing,p, i dont think ive evr seen a garage get frost anywhere on the inside as the temp wont fall as low as it is outside cus the garage is adjoined to the main house??
Always very carefull with petrol fumes!!!! Winter 2010 twas hoofing it down with snow so I went in to shed at 8.30am lit the burner and did full front end strip down, new forks, breaks cleaned and bled, new head set bearings. It was 28 deg according to my thermometer and I was wearing shorts. Even pissed in a bucket to avoid going out in the storm. At 5pm when I finally emerged couldn't get out due to the snow drift against the door ......had to phone the missus to dig me out. She had no idea where I was, she thought I'd gone climbing
