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Hibernating Goldwing
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Re: Hibernating Goldwing
Better than out in the elemants. Is the battery on a tender else someplace warmer than outdoors?
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1982 CX500-based Trident ex-Police Trike
2001 GL1800 MotorTrike
2006 Vespa LX150
1956 Francis-Barnett Falcon 74
195x Solex 1700
196x Solex 2200
St. Louis, MO
The dude abides.
Brothers of the Third Wheel - Gateway Chapter http://www.btw-trikers.org
Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club http://www.vjmc.org
Francis-Barnett Owners Club http://www.francis-barnett.co.uk/
Antique Motorcycle Club of America http://www.antiquemotorcycle.org/
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Re: Hibernating Goldwing
That's really no different than being in my unheated garage.DUGG wrote:9C4684A6-1686-40FA-ABA6-675C285B03CC.jpeg
I leave the battery in, on a tender.
This battery, AGM, is on its 6th year.
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Re: Hibernating Goldwing
scootsx2 wrote:Better than out in the elemants. Is the battery on a tender else someplace warmer than outdoors?
Thanks for the reminder. I have a battery tender that I rotate between the motorcycle to the tractors. Usually a week or two on each. I usually cover the Wing for the winter so that the cat has cozy place to sleep but didn’t get around to it this year.
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Re: Hibernating Goldwing
Where's the cat sleeping?
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Re: Hibernating Goldwing
Where else but the nice cozy seatCYBORG wrote:Where's the cat sleeping?
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Re: Hibernating Goldwing
You need to load that thing up and bring it here and we'll give you the grand tour of Eastern NC. What Terrie and my day looked like today.Looks happier than R2B5 ....
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Re: Hibernating Goldwing
I couldn't fit it into the elevator to take it up to my 5th floor apartment, so this is where it hibernates for the winter. Just like a bear, it's a bear to start in the spring. But it always eventually starts, and has done for the 41 years I've had it. I've got no power to the shed, so I remove the battery and connect it to my Genius G1100 tender, in my apartment, for the winter.
Come on spring!!....................Cheers.....Dave
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Re: Hibernating Goldwing
Hibernation in Arizona:
Of course, we do have a semi-hibernation during the intense Summer heat. Very little riding unless it's early and/or headed out on the road.- Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It's about learning to ride in the rain.
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Re: Hibernating Goldwing
That red 1100 is absolutely beautiful. I am looking for one just like that, 1983 naked.
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Re: Hibernating Goldwing
You don't see many BumblebBee Valks anymore.
As far as hibernating in Arizona....
Why I oughta.....
As far as hibernating in Arizona....
Why I oughta.....
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...and Honda didn't make a Bumblebee Tourer. I did.Dirty Dave wrote:You don't see many BumblebBee Valks anymore.
Dirty Dave wrote: As far as hibernating in Arizona....
Why I oughta...
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Re: Hibernating Goldwing
I put Mr.H to bed about a week later than I would have preferred in 2018. I was moving the snow blower from the shed to the garage and the bike from the garage to the shed so I cleared a path for the bike with the blower on the way. Mr.H has spent every winter in this shed for the 17 years since I built it and a matching garden shed. It originally had a wood floor but when that started to rot out a few years ago I had a concrete pad poured (the garden shed's wood floor is still OK but it got new sliding front doors). In 2017 we reinforced the roofs of both sheds and last summer I painted them.
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Re: Hibernating Goldwing
You know we all hate you right nowdesertrefugee wrote:Hibernation in Arizona:
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Of course, we do have a semi-hibernation during the intense Summer heat. Very little riding unless it's early and/or headed out on the road.
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