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Monday, November 18, 2013

For those of you with riding seasons

I'm on the road for work this week (again) but may be starting to realize how folks who actually have riding seasons get tormented by the weather "persons".  I'm in northern Tennessee/southern Kentucky this weekend and the forecast was supposed to be cold and wet this week.  Well, they were partially right-Nashville got about 1 inch of rain yesterday, but today has been dry and about 60.  Not perfect riding weather, as I'm sure it will cool off a bit tonight and the sun will likely set pretty early too.  However, definitely a riding day, as evidenced by the many bikes I saw parked on base and riders on the way in this morning.

So how do you decided to winterize your bike in a place like this?  Do you wait a week or two too long, or risk winterizing the first available weekend then having to wonder if re-doing it worth a day or two of riging?  I know I'd likely wait until the last minute, both to ride and because I'm a bit lazy!  Then I'd probably say, "Forget it." and just run the bike occassionally and never winterize.

So what do you do?

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