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Originally posted by WeeJohnyB My race/track bikes sit in my garage from Nov - March with just water and I've not had any icing problems, nor have I had probs at March race meetings with the bike sitting in a freezing cold tent, but not sure if the temp went as low as freezing point, I doubt it. If you're worried, do as Skids says, (good idea mate), or try putting a blanket around the rad. WeeJohnyB |
Johnny you have been lucky so far.
I remember a couple of years back when Dallas put his race bike away in the garage for the winter without draining the water. Two cracked heads later and a rather large bill to pay, be bad enough if it had been a 916 Strada like my race bike was at the time, but in Dallas's case it was a rather more costly model as it was his 748RS.
At the same time my bike was sat in the garage having had its water drained and replaced with a Antifreeze mix, which I then drain at the begining of the race season and store in a container for next time.
Currently my GSXR600 is sitting in the workshop with nothing in it, bit of a pain if I want to run it up as I dont like running it dry as it may damage the water pump and also you can't tell how hpt it is getting. But its still preferable to risking damaging a tuned engine thats had a fair few quid spent on it.
Luckily the Desmo Due bikes will not be having these problems which is a good thing because New Era take a very dim view of this sort of thing (and after that Snetterton incident, who can blame them after all its the rules as published in the ACU handbook sent to every current ACU licence holder every year), there punishments for offenders includes fines, expulsion from meeting, expulsion from club and even suspension of race licence.
Kev