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Winter preparation

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florence:
I am well served for batteries here.  The local tractor shop stocks "Oregon" (chainsaw) batteries which are for ride-on mowers. They are the exact battery for the bike and last very well.  Mine has been through four winters now and still strong and they're not even expensive.

http://www.oregonchain.co.uk/

Optimate sounds like a good idea if the bike has to rest.  Might be useful for my 350 which currently shares a battery with the 500.  Gosh, it could have it's own battery; that would solve all that fiddly bolting and unbolting.

Steve, good idea, in fact, I could start now.  If I sell a part, then replace it with a BSA part(they're always cheap), before long I could end up with an A10  :D  I already have a BSA back light and some AMALs.........hmmmm, an evil plan is hatching for a hideous Japanese/British hybrid, the sort of thing that would annoy purists from both camps.  Let me see, a 500/4 engine in a featherbed frame or an A65 engine in a 500/4 frame..........

clive:
and dont forget vick's vapour rub and fishermans friend ::)

K2-K6:
"Moisture crystals" isn't that like breakfast cereal on the starship enterprise?..............

You forgot the Deer-stalker for a stylish arrival Florence.

LM grease, my favourite for squiggeing around any bolts / screws etc, they come up really nice and clean next spring when you clean it off.

Regularly spray the front of the motor with WD40 or similar in winter.


 

rigwit:
Why not just apply a carranubba wax and not polish it up. not done it on a bike but used on cars.......  come spring good old wash off and bit of elbow greaes then put on the sun gogs as shine will blow you away .............. and silica crystals will take out moister in the air .

clive:
er wots carranubba wax, is it some secret potion from thr darkest rhubarb triangle ;D

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