Can`t do it, had to get a car!

[Huambo81a]

The fear of salt ruining my pride and joy has forced me to commit an act of sin and get myself a car for winter! That and sliding sideways on tractor poo whilst on a corner in the pissing rain, with cars blinding me through my dirt caked helmet.

Mainly though, its the fear of salt destroying my favourite thing in the world, getting to work in the morning and knowing that your bike is outside caked in salt, and wont be relieved of it until you get home and wash it, but secretly knowing that you will be so tired when you finish that you will put the cleaning off.

So yes, got myself an awesome 99 Vectra turbo diesel with a tyre squealing 98BHP.

Roll on summer, when i`ll get my Blackbird and probably crash it through lack of practice! woot!

Anyone else chickening out of the winter?
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[G]

I take the motorbike on wet days. Push bike for nice days.
A 4-wheeler if I need to pick something big up from work; traffic annoys me too much!

[Ariel Badger]

Remove your testicles, you do not deserve them.
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[Huambo81a]

[TUG]

have you handed in your penis? man now your on 4 wheels and bollock less how will you open jars?


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Haz ER-5, innit!

[Huambo81a]

[MarkJ]

In winter I just take a bottle of FS365 in my bag and give the bike a once over with it when I get to work, takes 10 seconds

[Fahd]

[mr.z]

Thing is, its not that bad yet..

Hacks are plentyfull and stupidly cheap, i can have two and insured for the price car insurance is for me...

Haveing the option is good, if rideing in shitty weather isn't your idea of fun then why bother if you dont have to.. at the same time if its still fun then get yourself a hack for £300 or less and let the salt do whatever it likes.

Of course thats if it REALLY is the salt and not just being a nancy
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[TUG]

why not get a quad? there fun and 4 wheels with the great bit of being like a bike. and they look the mutt's nut's but thats my opinion and all to their own and what not
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[Fahd]

[TUG]

[Fahd]

[TUG]

doing my car test soon, and i've heard all sorts of rules about quad bikes such as you cant ride them on the road more than 25 miles from your home???
god knows, i need to get all the info before i buy but will be a while, might buy one next winter.
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[.Chris.]

There's quite a few road-legal quads round my way, they do look awfully good fun! You don't have to wear a lid on them either.

Sadly though it seems that the market has been flooded with Chinese crap.
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1985 Kawasaki Z550F

[mr.z]

Because they have 4 wheels.. when the laws changed to stop bikers driving reliant robins and small capacity cars this includes these.

From several people whos ridden them (and from watching them) there proper gits to ride, you have to lean right off to get around corners, great for offroad and pishing about but for fast corners there not exactly what i'd want to be dealing with on a dayly basis..
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[G]

From what I've seen you get the worst of both worlds - no weather protection, you go around corners worse than both vehicles and generally it's only the competition ones that are decently fast, I believe.
Do get to drift them in slippy conditions, though .

[Huambo81a]

A Quad would kick ass, either that or an Ariel Atom for the winter (the 300hp supercharged one )

Truth be told, it is really the salt that i cant stand. Obviously i dont like the idea of falling off, but i just wanted to get the bike garaged before it actually gets cold to save on depreciation so i can get my BB next year

Maybe i`m just paranoid, but i saw what january did to my brand new Bandit 1200.
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[_Will_]

And so he has fallen, bow your head in two wheel shame, fo' shame.

Am i evil to my bikes, i don't coat it in anything and it will most likely not see a proper wash till after winter....thats what rain is for
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[TUG]

[Will87]

Your a damned wimp, i'm biking through winter whatever the weather!

As far as quads go, my friends have a Banshee and a Raptor 700. They are both stupidly fun and very fast both on and offroad, but due to having a solid rear axle you don't turn around corners you slid the rear around them which can get a little tedious on the road, plus they are the new cool and thus huge attention magnets, which can't be good for their safety. .

[G]

[Kris]

Like the G man says, a winter hack would be ideal. Either that or liberally coating the bike in a protective layer of FT365 (?) Scottoiler stuff or similar?

I'm using the spray at the moment and the bike comes up nice after a wash and re-apply every weekend They've been gritting the roads round here for nearly a month
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