"Summer-ize" bike
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"Summer-ize" bike
Very newb question here...
What should I be doing, if anything, to get my bike ready for the season? I've heard you are supposed to change your oil before garaging it for the winter, and I've heard that's stupid and you should change your oil after the winter. My last oil change was about 500 miles before I put the bike away, should I be changing the oil or doing anything else? I've already done my tire pressure obviously, I do that about once a week in the summer when it's nice enough to ride.
What should I be doing, if anything, to get my bike ready for the season? I've heard you are supposed to change your oil before garaging it for the winter, and I've heard that's stupid and you should change your oil after the winter. My last oil change was about 500 miles before I put the bike away, should I be changing the oil or doing anything else? I've already done my tire pressure obviously, I do that about once a week in the summer when it's nice enough to ride.
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I've only been riding bikes since the 1960s, ridden over half a million miles and have never done any of the oil changes before or after winter! They seem to me to be a recent thing and you should simply take your bike out for a long ride, say a tankful, to celebrate the start of the new riding season - after checking oil levels, tyre pressures, etc. Don't get hung up on stuff that doesn't have much if any benefit.
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Just ride it. You're over thinking. I don't even change my oil before putting it away (doesn't sit long enough). If you do change it before storing it, before is better than after as you don't want all the combustion byproducts sitting in your crankcase all winter.
Just add fuel stabilizer and put that thing on a tender. Done.
If you want to be a nut about it. Put the tires on wood 2x4s and empty your gas tank. Swap the oil etc.. but thats nutty
If you want to be a nut about it. Put the tires on wood 2x4s and empty your gas tank. Swap the oil etc.. but thats nutty
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