Trickle or hibernate?

I tend to try to keep riding through the winter months.....usually gravitate towards the everyday / rustbucket / muddy lane bike as the roads never seem to dry out around here even after a dry spell...don`t always enjoy it....I switch to a very dark visor as the sun ( if it`s out ) is so low in the sky it`s blinding you half the time and also reflects off a wet road surface causing glare from that as well .

If I think the other bikes are going to be out of action I will spray everything except the tyres and brakes with WD40 , remove the battery , take it indoors and put it on a low / pulse charge once a month or so ....and give the contents of the tank a good shake now and again as well.....

If the battery stays on the bike I do run it up to temperature in the garage every now and then ( shock horror )....when I say up to temperature I mean to the point at which the fan will come on with a modern bike....my reasoning is that if I took it out for a ride it`s unlikely it would reach that temperature anyway , so the best way to get it really hot enough to burn off any condensation is to do it in the garage...better to get it up to 110 degrees in the garage than only reach 70 degrees out on the road ......
 
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The Sock said:
-23°F/-9.4°C !
I'd hesitate to go out in a car, in those temperatures.
The Gulf Stream saves us, here, from those sort of extremes.
The coldest London winter so far, this century, was 2009-10, the mean temperature in the UK was +1.51°C, compared to a long-term average winter temperature of 3.7°C, according to the Met Office.
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it is interesting what you acclimate to. I have difficulty in a hot climate, anything over high 20's C and I start to melt and the Aussie's all laugh at me.

on the other hand, no big deal to be out in minus 40 C, which is roughly the same as minus 40 F. Life goes on, daily activities continue. We do dress appropriately and keep emergency gear in the vehicles just in case

I live on a corner directly across from a large park that includes an off leash dog park. Especially after a few weeks of minus 20 - minus 30 C here, when it then warms up to a balmy minus 10 C here I occasionally look out my window to see people out walking their dogs in shorts and a light sweater.
 
Paul LeClair said:
it is interesting what you acclimate to. I have difficulty in a hot climate, anything over high 20's C and I start to melt and the Aussie's all laugh at me.
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I think it’s pretty amazing how humans adapt.
I knew a bloke who emigrated from the Glasgow summer, into the Auckland winter. He said he couldn’t sleep for the heat.
A year later he’d decided to stay so he went back to say goodbye to his Glaswegian friends and relations. He said he couldn’t get warm the whole 10 days.
 
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