Friday freezer Ride

[weldingshop]

So the thermometer Said 52, But the bike Says 46; what the hell right? I needed to do the fuel stablizer. Both bikes ......I felt like a freak'n ice-cycle. summers over .

[Warp Racer]

Inlet temp, wind chill factor until the airbox heats up from the engine

[ducaticorse]

So the thermometer Said 52, But the bike Says 46; what the hell right? I needed to do the fuel stablizer. Both bikes ......I felt like a freak'n ice-cycle. summers over .
careful of those tires bro, they simply don't heat up in the extreme cold. (learned that the hard way last year).

[weldingshop]

Yeah it was two years ago almost to the day I broke my shoulder......now I ride like a timid field mouse. Almost.

[Mongo]

Oh man +1 on the cold tires and roads. Almost wiped out Saturday in front of Colemans - looking cool, doing a huge downshift right in front and Hey! My rear tire isn't supposed to be on the left!!! :eek

Also the Pirelli DC3 dual compound kinda sucks in the cold. The harder middle stuff gets really hard.

[Mongo]

Update: why is it sunny, but frickin freezing? Ugh this weather sucks. Need my fix bad. Can't believe I'm spending another winter in the northeast. Looks like this next weekend too. Will have to start both bikes and just sit there with them for awhile.

[weldingshop]

cold weather blows

[Mongo]

Things I leaned today. Mind you, I'm 37, have a grad degree from tier 1 school, and can fix anything built by people.

1. My monster will always start. I put an Autozone bat in it, that looked like the stocker, 2 years ago, which is apparently powerd by voodoo. Haven't changed the belts in 3 years, no check valves or anything else, has 18k miles on it. It sarts, and runs like some freaky indesctuctabel actual monster out of a horror flick. Maybe like the aliens in "Aliens." Hit the button a few times, likes to go BLAM!!! to clear the cyls when it's been sitting in the cold & wet (?), then fires right up. Had a pleasant ride today.

2. The 1098 will not always start. Clock said 44; 48 ouside. The 11.7v didn't do it - one rotation per sec. Tried several times. Went down to 10.6, one large and disconcerting backfire. It's never backfired before.

3. Old speaker wires don't make good jump wires. I connected them from the Monster to the 1098, using the tirckle charge plug Battley's installed. No M750 running, did'nt help. Started 750, and fuse in the tender connection popped. Who the hell has 7.5a fuses????

Jumped the fuse and started 750 back up. Wires connecting 750 to bat tender connector caught on fire.

Last resort, I suppose I could've got actual jumper cables & tried that direcly to the batts, but seemd like a bad idea when I already had to take the panel of to get to the battery.

2nd to last, and what I did - just take the damned bat out, bring upstairs, and connect to my 1a charger. Few hours on that.

Put bat back in, read 12.4 volts, and started fast on the first pump. One little backfire, but that was it. VR settled down and she was hummin along. Did one lap of my parking garage, 120 dgrees, and shut her down. 2 people passed by, probably thinking I'm a nut. I think the alarm is killing it.

Bikes have been sitting two weeks, and soaked for several days due to extreme condensation.

Though, even at 10pm, really nice to start her up for a while :thumbup

[weldingshop]

I read Starting the 1098 on a low battery was a bad ideal. Cant rember I the thread.

[Phil]

cold weather blows


Sounds like a case of "vaginitis" to me

[weldingshop]

nah, I just spent the past week working in it.......its the two wheeled part. In fact, I just saw a guy I columbia md wraped like a fool on his hypermotard...2degree wind chill,...I passed him in a 1ton dually.

So it's not the "vaginits," its most definitetly the "shrimpdick."

[kemaactiott]

I might be a little scared riding with a newbee, but we all started that way. Id love to get a group of N.E. ducs and go for a nice little ride. This weekends all booked up but after that Id be free. Maybe a ride up to Curtis BBQ in VT for lunch some Saturday.

[GLantern]

cold weather blows


Get heated gear and some textile stuff you will be good to go all winter except when we get 2ft of snow..........