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#16 | RE: SORN bikes datum

Thu Nov 16, 2023 4:37 pm

Washing a bike after every ride in winter is essential? Fuck that for a game of soldiers. I never bothered when I commuted 33 miles each way to Cardiff on a R1150GS (only taking the train if it was snowing) and I don't see myself starting in retirement with the RS.

I did wash it after my ride last week but that was to get rid of the Spanish bugs left from my trip last month as they had got a bit furry now the bike is parked outdoors under a cover. The bike won't get another bath until Easter.

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#17 | RE: SORN bikes datum

Thu Nov 16, 2023 5:10 pm

Zitat von wessie im Beitrag #16
Washing a bike after every ride in winter is essential? Fuck that for a game of soldiers. I never bothered when I commuted 33 miles each way to Cardiff on a R1150GS (only taking the train if it was snowing) and I don't see myself starting in retirement with the RS.

I did wash it after my ride last week but that was to get rid of the Spanish bugs left from my trip last month as they had got a bit furry now the bike is parked outdoors under a cover. The bike won't get another bath until Easter.

In some part I wish I had your relaxed approach Wessie, but as a metallurgist spending my working life trying to solve customers corrosion issues I just can�t permit myself to take that attitude, every sign of oxidation is a professional failure - stupid I know!

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#18 | RE: SORN bikes datum

Thu Nov 16, 2023 5:55 pm (Last edited: Thu Nov 16, 2023 5:56 pm)

Likewise, though I think it is from my time when I took the fuck that approach owning a Multistrada. Basically led to the bike falling apart.

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#19 | RE: SORN bikes datum

Thu Nov 16, 2023 6:09 pm

Zitat von Becksy im Beitrag #18
Likewise, though I think it is from my time when I took the fuck that approach owning a Multistrada. Basically led to the bike falling apart.

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#20 | RE: SORN bikes datum

Thu Nov 16, 2023 6:35 pm

Zitat von wessie im Beitrag #19
Zitat von Becksy im Beitrag #18
Likewise, though I think it is from my time when I took the fuck that approach owning a Multistrada. Basically led to the bike falling apart.

Ducati ≠ BMW

Yes, I have realised that, though if I take my bike out for 100-150 miles in late December I am going to wash it when I get home rather than let it fester for possibly 2-3 months, it is not going to get used again the next day.

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#21 | RE: SORN bikes datum

Thu Nov 16, 2023 7:18 pm

Zitat von Becksy im Beitrag #20
Zitat von wessie im Beitrag #19
Zitat von Becksy im Beitrag #18
Likewise, though I think it is from my time when I took the fuck that approach owning a Multistrada. Basically led to the bike falling apart.

Ducati ≠ BMW

Yes, I have realised that, though if I take my bike out for 100-150 miles in late December I am going to wash it when I get home rather than let it fester for possibly 2-3 months, it is not going to get used again the next day.

That's why I don't ride in winter any more. Washing a bike in 40 degree weather isn't my idea of fun. The day I put my RS to bed, it was 70 degrees, a great day to wash and wax a bike and store it. The next day the temp was 50F and raining.

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#22 | RE: SORN bikes datum

Thu Nov 16, 2023 8:06 pm

If you ride in the winter you need a 'mucky' bike, and you can enjoy leaving it mucky and treating it as a workhorse. It will get a clean in Spring.

If that is how you see your RS, that is absolutely fine. Problem is, many of us here see our RS as something special.

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