Frank:
Gas = petrol over here =)
What I meant was to keep your tank full whenever the bike is going to be garaged/parked/stored. That's assuming your tank has no water/rust.
You guys have water added to your petrol???
True, if stored for over a month, petrol tends to break down - good enough reason to ride year round (or use fuel stabilizer or one of those tablet things I've seen recently for the petrol).
Funny thing about getting the knee down. I rarely used to get the knee down because I was always afraid of hitting the OEM headers, levering the rear wheel off the ground, and then highsiding. Ouch! But once I put the custom spaghetti's on and knew I had enough clearance, I was draggin my knees everywhere. The mind has a funny way of getting in the way. Oh, and I'm 8' tall
But there's a friend who rides a 93 900/966SS and he never gets his knee down (except lowsiding!). But he rides like a rocket. No need to get a knee down if you can still ride (and from the looks if it, it looks like you can).