So who is going back to their car this winter?

[InquisitionCh...]

Saw this and was thinking this winter could be quite bad.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/520672/Winter-weather-2014-UK-forecast-cold-snow-November

HOWEVER this is the express we are talking about....

'If only Diana were here' they cry

Anyway, what are your thoughts?
____________________
Currently Riding: CBR125-R7 (and having too much fun doing it) + Kawasaki Z750 (She's called Clementine for a reason!)

[esullivan]

I live in London, and I'm no where near important enough to have a private underground parking space and/or personal driver. It's the tube, the motorbike or (I guess) a pushbike.

If there is snow on my street, I take the tube. If not, I take the motorcycle. At about 35 miles round trip, it's a bit long for the pushbike.
____________________
Current: '14 VFR800X Test passed 31/10/12.
Previous: '12 NC700S, '11 CBF 125, '04 SH 125.

[Copycat73]

I don`t ride below 10ºC.. that's why I keep a vehicle with 4 wheels...
cannot see much millage bein done till late march..
____________________
Whatever I post I have no citation and no intention of providing one..
caveat emptor

[RedPanda]

The Express has a permanent boner for bad weather and they sell rags by being sensationalist shit-stirrers. I wouldn't worry about it.
____________________
CBF125 (2013) -> CBR600F (2001) -> 'Ninja' 300 (2014)

[CBFcarl]

After a couple of nobheads nearly wiping me out in the last month, the Mrs is pushing me to buy a cheap car to get to and from work when its wet / icy / end of days. I am pushing back on the idea, but this morning, after slowly going through a 3 foot puddle (slowly), and water penetrating my waterproof overtrousers (bag of shite), kevlar jeans and work jeans, my cold wet testicles desperately want a car.

I dunno. I'd be happy with a pair of trousers that were actually waterproof but didnt cost a fortune to buy. Other than that, I'll be on the bike unless two wheels aren't safe and I need the 4x4 to get in.
____________________
thx1138 wrote: Well if you had a car, I'd bet it would smell like urine had had drunken sex with vomit and made a poo baby.
Polarbear wrote: They are all old now. Probably had more abuse that a Rotherham schoolgirl.
Hellkat wrote: I want to know if Nigella smells of garlic, or just minge.

[Rogerborg]

[chickenstrip]

When I had only a bike as transport, it got used throughout the winter, except for when there was a high risk of ice/snow conditions. Thankfully, we don't get too much of that here in the south of England, even in the worst winters, or if we do, it doesn't usually last all that long. Then, I just used the bus (last time I had to do this, it wasn't a long trip, and I did sometimes walk - 4 miles each way).

Now I have the luxury of a car, and you're damn right I'll use it through the worst of the winter! Although last year I still kept the bike on the road throughout, and did have a couple of good winter rides on the better days, few though they were.

This year, I have just SORN'd the bike, but that was because of my off and subsequent immobility coinciding with the tax expiring. I am sure that as soon as I have done a few repairs to the bike and am properly back on my feet, I will put it back on the road. I have left the insurance running for this reason.
____________________
Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
THERE'S MILLIONS OF CHICKENSTRIPS OUT THERE!

[DrSnoosnoo]

FCUK that. I've got a CG and I've bought some crash bars for chinese bikes that I'm gonna bodge on and have a blast through the winter. Managed the winter last year without crash bars so I should be reet.
____________________
I'm Sam; Northern, Ginger, Lover
Did have: '95 ZZR600 '83 CG125 '97 ZZR1100 '15 Hypermotard 821 SP Do Have: '10 ZX10R

[Musketeer]

I haven't really stopped driving my car in summer. I still drive to work, take my son to school, do weekly shopping, family trips etc.

The bike on the other hand will go into hibernation. I see no benefit of riding it in cold and icy days. It doesn't make you a better rider no matter how hard to try to convince yourself and everybody else about it
____________________
Current Bike: Yamaha XSR900 Previous bikes: Honda CBR1000RR Fireblade, Kawasaki ZX-6R Ninja, Aprilia RS125 2-stroke

[chickenstrip]

Agreed. If you hit a patch of ice, you're off. Nothing you can do to influence it, no matter how good a rider you are. Or maybe once you can stamp a foot down and keep upright. But if you often ride in icy conditions, how long before you have an encounter in which that doesn't work?

My trip to work now is 3 miles each way. Pointless waking the bike up for that. And I won't be walking or cycling it, cos it's down a winding, unlit country lane with no pavement. Every winter, cyclists get taken out on it.

To me, bikes are now solely about fun and enjoyment. I don't get that from winter riding these days.

I have had the good fortune of having a nice free car land in my lap. I'd be a mug not to take advantage of that!
____________________
Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
THERE'S MILLIONS OF CHICKENSTRIPS OUT THERE!

[CG Sam]

Its part of why I've kept my lovely little CG, although part of me is tempted to just get a little pitbike and zip straight down the canal to work and back
____________________
CG125, SV650S, CBR600F, GSXR600 SRAD

[rideslikean00...]

I don't have a car. I'll get back on four wheels again eventually but for me it's utility. I'd still rather have the bike for the work run because it shaves off 45 minutes of travel each way, that's 90 minutes a day I get back because I don't get stuck in traffic. If it was icy to the point of dangerous I'd get the train but in comparison to a bike it's so expensive and I still have to walk a couple of miles or waste more money on the bus. Bus + train is £13 a day (20 weekdays in a month = £260) costs more than the finance, petrol, insurance and service per year and obviously with the bike I can go almost anywhere.
____________________
.
Previous/Current Bikes
2013 Yamaha YBR-125ED -> 1997 Yamaha YZF-1000R Thunderace -> 2009 Yamaha XJ-6 Diversion -> 2007 Yamaha FZ6 Fazer S2

[wr6133]

Bike is my sole transport so I'll be riding all winter (wife has a car but that's just used for big shopping trips). Bought a crappy v-clic earlier in the year and stuck a big bore kit on it, that'll be my main winter transport with the ZZR only getting fired up for longer journeys.

[monkeybiker]

I'm self employed so don't need to travel to work but I have never put my bike away for winter.

When I was working in a factory most of winter I would use the car because it saved the hassle of getting dressed up but I would still use the bike on my days off. I would even bike it to work on the odd day in winter when I felt like it.

The idea of putting a bike away for winter just seems silly to me.

[pepperami]

I look out of the window and see no sun = bike staying in the garage
cold, wet = Pepperami not like = take the car
____________________
I am the sum total of my own existence, what went before makes me who I am now!

[Beehive Bedlam]

I intend to ride a bike rain or shine until I can no longer hold one up.

[mentalboy]

I'll be putting the bike away in a fortnight for the next three months. Normally I'll ride all through the winter but as I'm in Florida again for the winter and have no bike out there (yet!) I'll be driving the cage again. Bizarrely enough the only time I ever drive a cage now is when I'm in the States.
____________________
Make mine a Corona.

[Copycat73]

[thepuma]

They say the same shit every November...'get ready for the worst winter on record'....then stuff all happens.
____________________
YBR125 (SOLD) - CBR250R(SOLD) - CBR650F(SOLD) Current - Street Triple
765 RS

[thepuma]

They say the same shit every November...'get ready for the worst winter on record'....then stuff all happens.
____________________
YBR125 (SOLD) - CBR250R(SOLD) - CBR650F(SOLD) Current - Street Triple
765 RS

[Copycat73]

Yeah they do have a habit of repeating themselves...


Yeah they do have a habit of repeating themselves...

____________________
Whatever I post I have no citation and no intention of providing one..
caveat emptor

[Rogerborg]

[Commuter_Tim]

[The Shaggy D.A.]

Bloke on my morning's commute today was giving it the beans on a Piaggio MP3 - pissing down, leaves, not a single fuck was given. Tempting.
____________________
Chances are quite high you are not in my Monkeysphere, and I don't care about you. Don't take it personally.
Currently : Royal Enfield 350 Meteor
Previously : CB100N > CB250RS > XJ900F > GT550 > GPZ750R/1000RX > AJS M16 > R100RT > Bullet 500 > CB500 > LS650P > Bullet Electra X & YBR125 > Bullet 350 "Superstar" & YBR125 Custom > Royal Enfield Classic 500 Despatch Limited Edition (28 of 200) & CB Two-Fifty Nighthawk > ER5

[janner_10]

My commute is 2 miles, not taken the bike in about 3 years, just not worth it with time-wise.

Even if it was 20 I'd still drive from August onwards. That said, I live in Tewkesbury - we don't get much traffic round 'ere
____________________
Yamaha FZS600 (Now gone to heaven) > CBR600F4i (SOLD) > '99 YZF-R1