My Winterization Plan

The weather is beginning to get colder. I pulled the W650 into a field for a picture and realized that snow will be flying soon and I’ll need to start winterizing my motorcycles and scooters.

The idea of pulling batteries, draining fuel, and packing away a perfectly good scooter or motorcycle for six or seven months seems a terrible idea. Not because of the work involved but rather I can’t stomach not riding for that long. The mix of riding desire and not understanding why I couldn’t ride on many of the bone dry winter days I decided to forego the conventional winterization menu.

The challenge at the beginning was to ride often enough to keep the fuel fresh. Easy when there was only one machine in the garage. Now that I have five to maintain I can’t fly by the seat of my pants and need a plan. On a recent ride to breakfast I began to have some ideas.

Solo rides to breakfast is where I do a lot of my best thinking.

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