Never ever run for 10-15 minutes during storage! All that causes is possible condensation forming in the motor! When you about ready to store and the tank is almost empty, ride to the gas station. Add the proper amount of sea foam or Stabil, then fill the tank up. Ride it for about 15mins to get the mix into the injector or carb (which ever you have). Then park it, hook up the tender and leave it alone until your ready to ride in the spring.

 

 

yep, your actually doing damage by starting your bike up in your garage and letting it run. Either let it sit without starting it at all, or take it on a 30 min drive and get it out and up to speed. Its a real good idea to put fuel stabilizer in there, heck if i leave gas just sitting in my lawn mower all winter (4 months or longer) with no stabilizer it is really hard to start and runs like crap. Have to drain the fuel out and put more fuel in. Thats not a good thing to get mixed into your fuel injection.

 

God almighty what did we do before the big stabilizer debate and will the cold hurt my bike nonsense. A motorcycle engine couldn't pull enough moisture to build anywhere near the condensation needed for you to even notice it in the oil. Either do a tender or pull the battery is all you need to worry about honesty.

With today's crap gas a bit of seafoam isn't a bad idea it it's gonna sit long than 3 months otherwise it's just something to calm all the worry reading too many myths on the internet causes you........

 

I agree, it seems like anything under a couple of months your fine but i do know for a fact that just plain old gas sitting there will break down at least by 6 months...i know cause my lawnmower tells me so after 5 months of gas in it (and i store the lawnmower inside too). it runs like crap until i get the old gas out.

 

You Cali guys have no clue about condensation with your weather, here in the NE, -30 is common. I have seen 24 hour swings of 60 degrees and it was still below freezing.
fill up with non ethanol, add stabil, steel wool in the exhaust, tender or pull battery, decent cover, check for critters

 

Stabilizer never caused any harm. So why not?

 

A bottle of Sta-bil cost $5.00, a service visit for a few hours of labor to clean out the system will cost a hell of a lot more. The old saying "an once of prevention is worth a pound of cure".

 

Fill the tank with good gas. Add stabilizer if you want. Stop starting it. Use a battery tender.
The more gas in the tank, the longer it takes to go bad, and it occupies more space to not allow condensation.
My lawn equipment and snow-blower sit alternately for long periods with 87 octane and no stabilizer. Every one of them start on the first pull when I first take them out.