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NJD
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PostPosted: 10:44 - 27 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Indeed, my first and only bike has fuel injection and I can't imagine going without it.


Come on now, lads. I went from having a kickstart to electric start only, lets slow down on the advance in technology shall we before I faint in excitement.

Having a choke isn't all that bad although have never owned nor ridden a fuel injected bike so don't know what, if anything, I'm missing out on. I'd say it depends on the motor: the GS 500 I rode at the training school was the worst for taking its time to warm up and that thing was stored inside in a garage well away from the elements. I could have been halfway -- at the time -- to work by the time they'd given me the nod to get going: even then it cut out in the process a couple of times.

Winters one of them slow transitions over the year whereby I slowly start to accept that I'm not going anywhere quick. Biggest pain in the arse -- now I'm on a big bike -- is ensuring I get enough miles in to keep the motor running at suitable temps.
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PostPosted: 11:16 - 27 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Genuinely low temps over winter, especially here in central UK, lasts what 2 maybe 3 weeks a year, so no great hardship. All my bike are now efi, and, yes it does make starting alot easier, almost always a first time start, no matter what the weather. As for warming the engine, I tend to start the bike, and let it tick over for a minute or so, long enough to lock up, and put my helmet & gloves on, by which time, it's usually up to the first bar on the engine temp gauge.
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PostPosted: 11:35 - 27 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
I keeep riding my bike through the winter. Done it for years all the way up from 125cc. I'm cleaning/prepping my downpipes & replacing any dodgy bulbs/bits as the nights start drawing in.

EFI is a god-send in the winter. My FZ6 starts up no matter what & only needs about 1 min to warm up!

If it's genuinely cold I'll make the bike's covered/locked up & I'll get the train to commute.
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PostPosted: 11:47 - 27 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
NJD wrote:
SDFarsight wrote:
Indeed, my first and only bike has fuel injection and I can't imagine going without it.


Come on now, lads. I went from having a kickstart to electric start only, lets slow down on the advance in technology shall we before I faint in excitement.


Sorry but linuxyeti has already got his 'engine temp gauge' out, which is no doubt connected to a laptop (running on Linux, naturally..) which sends average temp readings to his Twitter account and floods the 'core' if it overheats. *nod*
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PostPosted: 11:59 - 27 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
SDFarsight wrote:


Sorry but linuxyeti has already got his 'engine temp gauge' out, which is no doubt connected to a laptop (running on Linux, naturally..) which sends average temp readings to his Twitter account and floods the 'core' if it overheats. *nod*


Laughing Laughing Shame I don't have a twitter account, I kind of have a facebook account, and a nominally maintained linkedln account, that pretty much accounts my my use of social media, aside from a couple of forums !!

As good as the above sounds, alas, the temp gauge is displayed on the dashboard on all but 1 of my bikes. However, I have connected the OBD port from the car to my laptop on occasion, not had the need to with the bikes as yet Laughing Laughing
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PostPosted: 14:54 - 27 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
SDFarsight wrote:


Indeed, my first and only bike has fuel injection and I can't imagine going without it. I didn't like fiddling about with the fuel mixture in IL2 Sturmovik and I don't fancy doing it in real life!


lol n00b

How about having a choke on each carb, just to keep you on your toes?
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PostPosted: 23:14 - 27 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
GT200Fan79 wrote:
SDFarsight wrote:


Indeed, my first and only bike has fuel injection and I can't imagine going without it. I didn't like fiddling about with the fuel mixture in IL2 Sturmovik and I don't fancy doing it in real life!


lol n00b

How about having a choke on each carb, just to keep you on your toes?


Sounds.....Interesting.

I might have a kick-start as otherwise I can't convey my air of manly determination when just pushing a button. Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: 00:24 - 28 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
NJD wrote:
Having a choke isn't all that bad although have never owned nor ridden a fuel injected bike so don't know what, if anything, I'm missing out on.

Your neighbours not hating you Wink One of mine had a Bandit with the noisiest exhaust and he used to warm it up at 4am. I nearly set his bike on fire.
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Your neighbours not hating you Wink One of mine had a Bandit with the noisiest exhaust and he used to warm it up at 4am. I nearly set his bike on fire.


That wouldn't have happened three days running if he was my neighbour. I could handle it being started and ridden away but deliberately warming up a noisy bike at that time of day would have got it disabled pretty damn quick.
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PostPosted: 10:10 - 28 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Agree,

I've got a 1200 bandit with a Not road legal exhaust on it. I used to leave for work around 6:30 and would'nt even start it until I was in riding position rolling down the drive with it in gear ready.
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Nope.....ride through winter.

Don't think you can call yourself a proper biker unless you do.
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PostPosted: 20:27 - 28 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
thepuma wrote:


Don't think you can call yourself a proper biker unless you do.


Oh noes! All those years of riding have been for nothing! Shocked Crying or Very sad

Laughing
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PostPosted: 07:05 - 29 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
thepuma wrote:
Nope.....ride through winter.

Don't think you can call yourself a proper biker unless you do.


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Been there. Done it. Got the t shirt

Why bother.

By the time I’ve suited up, got the bike out, rode to work, de suited.
I’ve not saved any time from the car. It’s not been enjoyable. And tbh it’s been a farce.

People that genuinely believe this generally don’t have the option of taking a car.
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PostPosted: 11:02 - 29 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
thepuma wrote:
Nope.....ride through winter.

Don't think you can call yourself a proper biker unless you do.


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Lol n00b

Don’t worry, I was naive like you when I was inexperienced. Then I grew up and realised that there are no prizes for freezing to death or turning your bike into a pile of rusty scrap.
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PostPosted: 11:16 - 29 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
jakebrownbass wrote:
Why bother.

By the time I’ve suited up, got the bike out, rode to work, de suited.
I’ve not saved any time from the car. It’s not been enjoyable. And tbh it’s been a farce.

Doesn't this apply all year round? Eh?
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PostPosted: 12:18 - 29 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
M.C wrote:
jakebrownbass wrote:
Why bother.

By the time I’ve suited up, got the bike out, rode to work, de suited.
I’ve not saved any time from the car. It’s not been enjoyable. And tbh it’s been a farce.

Doesn't this apply all year round? Eh?


Not for me, it doesn't. I need to wrap up warm on the bike in winter these days, and it's a right old palaver. Ditched the idea of a ride today because I just couldn't be bothered.
In summer, pull on lid, jacket and gloves and I'm away.
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PostPosted: 14:08 - 29 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
chickenstrip wrote:

Not for me, it doesn't. I need to wrap up warm on the bike in winter these days, and it's a right old palaver. Ditched the idea of a ride today because I just couldn't be bothered.
In summer, pull on lid, jacket and gloves and I'm away.

That's the problem when you're riding to a biker cafe, don't want to get all hot and sweaty whilst having your cuppa Wink Working outdoors I'm normally wrapped up warm anyway, so it's pretty much the same for me. In fact I sometimes think I'll get a bit too hot on the bike, I'll put my thermals on at work.
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Upgraded the RST textile gear to Dainese Goretex - see if that deals with the muggy damp and overheating.
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PostPosted: 23:43 - 31 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
M.C wrote:
Your neighbours not hating you Wink One of mine had a Bandit with the noisiest exhaust and he used to warm it up at 4am. I nearly set his bike on fire.


<ten years later>

Depends how well the bikes running I'd say; not ignoring the fact, of course, that some exhausts are just designed to extract maximum noise at all times.

Start, keep below 2k, knock it off as soon as sounds healthy and ride away: I let the riding do most of the warming up now rather than burn redonkulas amounts of fuel for no reason. Then again, though, I don't ride at silly hours in the morning (been there, never again).

Don't poop on your own doorstep and all that: I like to have my fun elsewhere. Laughing
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PostPosted: 23:53 - 31 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
UncleBFester wrote:
Upgraded the RST textile gear to Dainese Goretex - see if that deals with the muggy damp and overheating.


For me I'm wearing my Alpinestars drystar, survived 2 winters with the same jacket, got a new one for this winter. bought be a pair of Buffalo textiles (mega cheap) which should do the job. (HG gortex if it rains)
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The CB1300 is coming off the road (I'm having the swingarm braced and the wheels are going to be powder-coated to change the colour) but the old Flying Brick will be ridden right through, seeing as that's what I bought it for.
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