I'm jealous of you guys with fairings.
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I'm jealous of you guys with fairings.
My riding to work has ended for the winter.
I rode yesterday and didn't ride today due to the snow. If the roads aren't salted I'll be back at it the rest of the week
C'mon, wire the Thruxton for heated gear!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kenn157
hahaha! Its nice and tucked away in my basement behind the theater chairs as you well know Dr. Botto! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by sveesix
My feet are resting on the front tire of the 636 in the basement lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kenn157
Hopefully they'll be resting on a 2013 636 next winter!Quote:
Originally Posted by G21forme
Not a Doctor quite yet. Let's see, five more years?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kenn157
Wire up the Speed then, or the Street!
Just kidding, now we run the risk of ice and frost that early in the morning, and going into boston, there are a lot of metal transitions in the road. No thank you.
Andover salted the roads tonight :(
Damn salt truck went right by me, just as I was heading home from work and admiring the fact that the roads were still untreated. :(
Same with Bean town last night. Saw it all over the roads on my drive in the cage to work this morning.Quote:
Originally Posted by e30addict
haha! Walk to work Rob youre like less then a 1/2 mile :tehee:Quote:
Originally Posted by rsw81
It's on Amy's way to work which is not T accessible... so I get to spend an extra 15 minutes with my wife in the morning ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Kenn157
Rode in today. Gotta admit, I did miss the butt warmer I have in the car
Install one on the bike!
The Firstgear jacket+zip-in-down-liner extend over my butt so my butt heats itself. The first few times I wore this combo I was thinking that my bike got hot awfully fast and that maybe something was amiss in these cold conditions until I realized it was the clothes. New rider Aha Moment #712 this year.Quote:
Originally Posted by OneCheekRider
You guys still riding with all the salt? How detrimental/treacherous is that for the bike and rider?
Coat the bike with a anti-corrosion agent like ACF-50, recoat once a month, and rinse off in April.Quote:
Originally Posted by Karate.Snoopy
What about damage to tires?Quote:
Originally Posted by sveesix
Do car tires get damaged? It's rubber, it burns off. Put some ACF on the rims as well, just don't spray it on the discs or rubber. It should go without saying you'd want a knobbie/roadsmart tread.Quote:
Originally Posted by Karate.Snoopy
Is there anything equivalent to ACF 50 that I can buy locally?
I doused my WR is Boeshield T-9. I picked some up off of Amazon, but a bunch of stores carry it.
Popular in aircraft (Boeing developed it) and marine applications, I'm told you can find it in marine supply stores.
Apparently, cyclists like it so you can sometimes find it in Bike shops and REI.
I'm thinking of a trials tire for winter riding.
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Originally Posted by Karate.Snoopy
I'm baffled, my nekid SV650, I rode in same conditions as my V-strom, the SV I never had any corrosion problems in winter, the worse corrosion I had was summer bug splats on the fork lowers. V-strom is a different story, I have corrosion from E-10 puking out tank overflow in summer, I had my slave cylinder seize from frost, and my wire harness and about everything else electrical got cancer even with dielectric grease in all the connections
I have been planning on applying some ACF50 this year but haven't yet
just tried finding a comparison of ACF50 vs Boeshield T-9 and found this, maybe I'll use Vaseline
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Clearly, the intermittent immersion test was the most severe of the three. After six days (12 immersions), only four products- Brownell's LTS-1, Pachmayr Rust Preventative, RIG Universal, and plain old Vaseline Petroleum Jelly provided sufficient protection so that no rust appeared on the steel strips. Two more, those protected with Outers Metal Seal and Boeshield T-9®, showed only very slight traces of rust. Most of the others were badly rusted.
After four days, the freshwater test demonstrated clear differences in the effectiveness of the various rust-blockers under non-salt water conditions. The strips treated with Brownell's LTS-1, Outers Metal Seal, Pachmayr Rust Preventative. and Vaseline showed no signs of rust; those with ACF- 50, Boeshield T-9®, Hoppe's Gun Grease, and RIG Universal had only very slight traces. The rest exhibited a range of rusting from slight to considerable.
The salt-air exposure test didn't produce the dramatic differences we obtained with the other two tests, but the top six products in the previous test also scored well in this one. While some products that performed poorly in the other tests did well in this less severe exposure, the results we obtained generally confirmed our findings in the other two tests.
Vaseline might attract dust. Probably better to use inside your boots:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zfw...tailpage#t=55s