Putting the blade to bed for winter

I don't put my bike away totally for winter, i do commute on it when the weather is ok (by ok i mean not hammering it down with rain or full of snow and ice), otherwise i ride to work and on the crap days i use my car.... nice and simple, i keep my hand in over winter with riding, the bike gets used over winter (always the best option), and i get to use my car for when i just can not face the rubbish weather..... i like my system.

On a slightly alternative note, i like some of the ideas on where to put the Optimate lead, but the one with the Optimate cigarette type socket.... any pics of this ?

 

this is where my baby sleeps

 

Now that is really neat, i do like that a lot. It that a standar Optimate ? My connector looks nothing like it, and it the socket in the blade just a standard 12v one you can get from anywhere ? That is the nicest and neatest solution to the Optimate question i have seen, very well done.

 

Thanks for that bud, like I said it was a bit scary drilling into the new tail tidy but I wanted an easy point to plug into that also looked neat, just buy a tm-78 female socket, and a tm-72 male plug, it takes a second to connect it up and i love that. hope that helps.

 

I will get a pic of mine in the morning ... its in the v piece between the bolts that hold the subframe on

 

NO! I Cant put the bike in Hybernation yet? still a few days to use up

 

Here ya go


First hidden away



Now ready for use

 

thats almost where mine is but in the next gap forward near frame and opposite side of bike. i like things neat too!!

 

I pretty much ride through winter - unless my thermometer says its freezing or below or there is a chance of rain. Living on the south coast means we don't get much rain throughout the winter

 

mostly remal - cannot bear not to be riding and as I said the weather down here is mostly dry through winter with crisp sunny days. I have heated gloves so the cold doesn't bother me too much

 

never really had a problem with any of my bikes in that department - but I am one of these people that if I see a spec of dust on the bugger it gets a clean instantly. So if she does get wet or dirty even if its a slight smear the cleaning cloths come out immediatley until I am satisfied ( or my OCD allows ) me to get back to being on here