Helium in the tires during winter, nitrogen in the summer. If that isn't available then I park it on 5 layers of bubblewrap. I grease every metallic surface with Vaseline and put giant corks in the exhaust pipe to keep any moisture laden air from seeping past the valves and into the cylinders. The whole bike is then encased in a giant sealed plexiglass box with a hygrometer and wireless temperature sensitive alarms. I then suck out any remaining air and replace it with an inert argon gas. So far no problems ;)

Pictures, pictures, pictures !!!

Yep ... It happened to a good friend a few years back. It was ugly!

It's all about space conservation ............. One is in a chock mounted on a 1x10x8 between bays and one is on the lift, they share a tender.

Washed, waxed, fresh fuel with stabilizer, engine fogged, battery tender and on the floor of my heated garage. Both bikes tend to get moved around a couple of times depending on what I am doing in my garage

Happened to me overnight on a bike I was working on. The locking mechanism failed and the stand lowered. Luckily the leather bags on the bike took most of the impact. Now I block all my jacks with a piece of wood no matter how long they are on them.

Heated Garage for mine:


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I'd get in trouble with that much space to play in , having a hard enough time keeping the old lady from spreading out into what little I do have.