Storing Your Bike for the Winter
Posted on August 21st, 2009 by mmStreet
It’s nice and sunny out right now. It’s the perfect season to enjoy long motorcycle rides on your favorite bike. But the time is flying by. Pretty soon winter will be here and it’s going to be the season for storing your motorcycle.
Follow these tips for winter motorcycle storage:
- Find a good self storage unit where you can store the bike. You don’t have to use self storage facilities to store your bike. You can store it at home. It’s smarter to put the bike in a secure and protected storage unit, though.
- Gas it up. When you store a car, you drain out most of the gas. That’s not true when you store a motorcycle. Instead, fill it close to the top. Add a fuel stabilizer so that the gas doesn’t go bad while the bike is in storage.
- Prepare the tires. You want them to be road-ready in the spring. The best choice is to drain the air out of them entirely. If you don’t want to do that then you should fill them to the correct pressure, set the bike on its center stand and then rotate the tires monthly throughout the winter.
- Disconnect the battery. Reconnect it and turn the bike on to charge about once a month. If you can’t do that, remove the battery entirely.
You may not use your bike in the winter but you want it to be in good condition when the weather warms up again so that you can ride next year like you’re riding now.
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