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I'm getting ready to put mine away for the four month freeze around here.Put hitest with Stabil in the tank hopeing by spring I'll still have good octain for start up.Is this a good plan or just a waste of money?? I always put oil in the cylinders for the winter, starte up with old plugs then put new ones in ,in the spring.

I, too am getting ready to put the beautiful black 03 Speedie up for the winter......uh...when it starts...say sometime after Christmas maybe or New Years day or say February around then give or take a few days here and there... Usually we celebrate the beginning of Spring here around mid Februaryish.

True sun tan weather begins in March.
have to preserve things for a few days during the cold spell. (Just put a cover over the bike to keep the frost off on those few mornings when the temps dip below freezing)

Gotta be careful though the bike is hard to start early in the morning during those 43 degree lows.

It's a good thing yous guys out west have lots of space between ya!!Bet it helps ta keep ya from getting on eachother's nerves!!

dont know if its a waiste of money or not.But i run hitest year round.When you are getting 40 odd mpg whats 20cents.
I usuallly start running stablizer about a month before I put whatever kind of bike I'm running away for the winter. ive never put oil in the cylinders. But know of one guy who did with his Ninja.And it gave him a hell of a time starting the next year.I'd be curious to know how many peopel do that (put oil in cylinders that is).

While on the subject does anyone have any mouse away tips?
other than tying a cat to the front wheel?

I notice if you keep your motorcycle in the living room it keeps most rodents away from it, as long as you have a rodent free house that is.

Yeah...Matt's place always has a gerbil or 2 running around.

As long as there's also not a cardboard tube or two, it's OK.

well i used to at least I havent seen um since you came up... by the way a section of tubing from there cage is missing...i dont want it back... I just want you to know that I know you took it.

oh...you don't wanna know what i saw when i spent a few days there before the noreast rally

and i never asked, but when we stopped by the grocery store, he bought condoms, butter, and a case of keystone. not quite sure what he was trying to do to me that night, but i spent the evening elsewhere

condoms dont you mean those trash bags for leaves?? Yeah you got put in a diffrent place that night...

...I still can't sit down

Sorry, your the one that steped up to the plate I just brought the bat

Wait a minute here...I'm talking about when I got drunk and fell down the steps...I didn't even feel that.

man u must have been drunk I was talking about how I knocked you down the stairs with a bat... get your mind out of the gutter sicko.

Well that explains things. But what needs explaining is why you were trying to get Megan to "use" it on you later.

Well thats easy...the more she knocked me senseless with it the less i had to hear you yell Matt where are the gerbils again?

I was worried about the little buggers...I saw you gather them up and take them into the bathroom...never saw them again. Should have called PETA on you I guess.

I moved there cage into the bathroom to keep them safe from you... I know how you get when you drink

hungry?

Well that too