How many run there bikes in winter?I ride all year i meant how many use a Ducati all year or swop to something else.
I ride all year round wherever the weather allows. I prefer to ride above 5°C but have been caught out by hail and snow more than once. Andy
I commuted a 70 mile round trip daily for three years in a row on my first 899. Deeply unpleasant and I wouldn’t recommend it one bit if you can avoid it. The wet and wind being worse than the cold.
Depends how much I feel like cleaning it when I get home. I dropped in on my aunt Christmas Day on the 999 a few years back. It rained.
I ride all year round but avoid wet days. As per Andy above 5deg I can handle. Lower than that and the car wins.
I ride my Multistrada V4 all year round, its my touring and winter bike. I do make sure to cover the bolts with the likes of XCP and I also spay the whole bike with some sort of ceramic spray as well but that's basically what I do to all my bikes and seems to work really well.
Anything under around 12c and that’s me not going out. Any chance of rain, that’s me not going out as well. No fun freezing on a bike.
Never really used to until I got the Pikes Peak, heated grips and seat make all the difference, weirdly quite like it when the frost symbol comes on, feel a right biking hero! Not bothered if I get caught in the rain, its just a PITA to clean. I use XCP clear coat quite generously.
Riding in the dark cold shit weather is a definite no. So occasionally in the day time when it's light, after rain has washed away the salt. Broadly up to October and after March! My Ducati only goes out in wonderful days, and makes them even better.
I know what you mean & the only weather that stopped me on my daily commute, on a V-Raptor, was the possibility of snow/ice or strong wind. I used heated gloves and had a full Rukka GoreTex Pro suit and can't ever recall been cold & wet. I've retired now and miss those rides (and not the work I hasten to add) and as you say the feeling of a biking hero.
