You riders out there. That have to put your rides up for winter storage. Cannot ride for months at a time. How do you not turn into axe murders? I mean if I cannot take a ride for a week I kinda get hard to live with. Here in Central Texas. Pretty much can ride year round. But. Your poor SOBs in Frost Bite Falls, Minnesota? Just hop on your snowmobiles?
I know going to get a lot of replies from those that abandoned their careers as comedians.

 

Those places allow drinkin and screwin so that helps.

 

After living in the desert for 20 years it's pretty nice seeing the seasons change and yes you see a f*ck ton of snowmobiles up north.

 

Normally in the winter I'd bury myself in the garage working on cars & bikes but I'm not settled in yet

 

My Indian and Sportster won't see the road again until June. The mountains of Wyoming have a short riding season. I did get the Limited out last week here in Colorado. Winter is long here.

It stinks with only about 3 1/2 months riding in Wyoming. The snow is sometimes still there at the end of May.

 

Yep, here in the northern states we are limited in our riding time and perhaps that's why we are so anxious to get what riding in when we can and appreciate it so much.
For me, living on a dirt/gravel road sort of ends my riding season usually in October and I don't get the "toys" out until mid-April at the earliest in order to make sure the road salt has been washed off of the roads.

Snowmobiles used to be an option but most everyone I knew that owned and rode them have either sold theirs (as I did) or are no longer amongst the living and in the last few (actually several) years I just haven't been able to tolerate cold weather as I once did.

 

You ride when it's 110 degrees in central Texas? I certainly wouldn't. So it would just be a different 3 months I wouldn't be riding....

 

UK rider here and I used to rid all year round, back when I owned a 2012 K2 Gixxer. I had to clean that bloody thing every other day so the relief of not having to clean salt and road dirt off my bike every other day helps me rest easy during the winter months.

 

Sometimes we need a break from riding just to catch up on life. I put 12,000 miles on my bike this year so I didn’t have time for some projects in the garage, some home renos…. So hopefully I get time to do the bike maintenance before spring. We usually go to Arizona for the winter but I have too much to do at home this year. And if we get some cold weather I can put the ice fishing hut out.

 

I used to live in upstate NY. We used to switch gears with the seasons. I waste many good riding days where I live now because the weather is easier to live with if you ride.