I try to start mine once every 10 days or so. Stabil and battery tender also.Do you start your bike and let it run for a while every so often during the winter? I do not. After I cover it up for the winter with stabil in the fuel and battery tender plugged in, I do not start it until spring. I had a friend tell me he starts his bike every couple weeks. What are your thoughts on this?
Unless you just need to hear it run, there's zero need to do this to a properly winterized bike.Do you start your bike and let it run for a while every so often during the winter? I do not. After I cover it up for the winter with stabil in the fuel and battery tender plugged in, I do not start it until spring. I had a friend tell me he starts his bike every couple weeks. What are your thoughts on this?
My experience tells me something different.Unless you just need to hear it run, there's zero need to do this to a properly winterized bike.
Do you start your bike and let it run for a while every so often during the winter? I do not. After I cover it up for the winter with stabil in the fuel and battery tender plugged in, I do not start it until spring. I had a friend tell me he starts his bike every couple weeks. What are your thoughts on this?
You do own a BMW so there's that to consider.Horses for courses. You do you. Whatever keeps you on the road. I average about 10k-14k per year, always done my own maintenance and want to continue that average.
Revzilla-
Don’t start your bike up every week Make no mistake, regular exercise is good for your bike — but like putting on workout clothes to sit on the couch, idling in the garage doesn’t count. Not only is a cold start hard on the motor, but if you aren’t running it under load up to full operating temperature, moisture condenses out of the air into places water doesn’t belong. If you don’t plan to actually take the bike for a rip to cook off moisture and recharge your battery from that cold crank it took to get her going, don’t even fire it up. Plan to ride once a week? More power to you — consider investing in some heated gear and a can of stabilized fuel to top it off after the ride.
Revzilla-
Do not start your bike periodically I hear "You gotta run it once a week!" from time to time. Do not start up your bike unless you plan to ride it. Cold starts are hard on engines, even when it's not freezing cold out. Worse, you deplete some of the battery's charge by starting the bike, and if you don’t go ride at normal rpms, the bike charging system won't necessarily restore the battery to a full charge. Many bikes don’t actually charge at idle. If you don’t get the bike up to full operating temp, too, you are inviting condensation in places that you likely don’t want it. Start it and go ride, or don't bother waking it up.
I would ride with you no problem. All bikes are good to me. I would have a BMW if I wasn't poor.You're not wrong, however that is coming from the guy with a Honda Fury chopper.. We should ride together