Finally riding tomorrow

I've been traveling most the past 3 weeks, with only a day and a half home one weekend and hours home the other.  But tomorrow I ride!

I'm probably going to take the Harley-Davidson Sportster out, as the rides will likely be short, and the Concours is due for some motorcycle maintenance.  The Sporty is too-oil change and air filter service, but nothing that can't wait a few days.

Hope you are getting some riding in if you don't live too far north!

FInally going to be able to ride, wait, wrench a little

Finally finishing up three weeks mostly on the road for work, but it's been all airplane and rental cars.  Only one or two days home long enough to go riding in the whole time.  One of the trips was to Anchorage AK, so no way did I want to ride while up there in the ice and snow!  But it's time to get home to family and then the bikes.

Both need a little work, ok the Connie need a lot of work if I don't want to ride it around leaking from a number of places.  Age and more mileage has caught up with some seals I'm afraid, and both bikes are due for oil changes.  I may buy a SPOOFAK for the Connie, a conversion kit that allows a spin-on filter, but I have one more internal filter at the house if I decide to use a regular one this time.  The Sportster needs the oil changed and the K&N filter serviced.  Hopefully that will get rid of a deceleration pop that has developed lately as well.  I'm thinking I'll do one oil change Sunday afternoon and the other one night early this week.  I'll update everyone on how they go, and the rides I get in Saturday and Sunday.

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?