When I had a road Ducati, I rode it all year round except when it was snowing, but to be honest, I couldn't disagree more with comments which suggest that it teaches you good riding!
It teaches you to stay on in the wet, no bad thing of course, but you spend far too much time looking at the road directly in front of you for mud, leaves, wet bits, tractors etc. Both myself and my husband would then always have a lengthy conversion period when the sun came back, to get out of that habit!!
But it is nice I think to go to the bike show on a bike and to get out for a blast with your mates when the suns out, just make sure you have some warm kit! I rode 150 miles back here yesterday and the sun was shinig, but boy was I cold!
