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From: stirling@fortune.UUCP (Patrick Stirling)
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Subject: Re: Cold weather (sux)
Message-ID: <124@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-Oct-86 16:03:36 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 22 16:03:36 1986
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I tried to e-mail this, but your path seems to be wrong! The one 
attempted was: hplabs!parcvax!sri-spam!rutgers!husc6!think!mit-eddie!rh
parcvax didn't like sri-spam. So I'm posting instead.

In article <3523@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> you write:
>I'm going to try to drive
>my bike ('83 Kawasaki KZ-750, 3200 miles) to work through most of
>the winter in Boston (I only have about 3-5 miles to go).  I'm
>worried about the effects the cold is going to have on the engine
>performance, and things like the battery freezing and cracking.
>

I had a bike in my final year at Edinburgh University (Scotland). It
was quite a cold winter - 6" or so of ice/snow on the ground most of the
time. I kept the bike (Honda CB250) outside all the time. Generally it
was OK. The battery did freeze once, but it didn't crack. I just took
it inside overnight and recharged it on a charger once it had thawed.
I would think it would have to get well below freezing before the battery
freezes - it only happened once to me, and it was at or below freezing
for much of the time (every night plus some days). The worst problems
were in riding the bike in freezing weather. I only fell off once, when
there was freezing fog laying down a nice coat of ice onto the road.
I did discover that eye protection is a must if it's snowing! 
You might try taking the battery out every night and trickle charging
it if it's not too difficult to get at. I have question - do you
have any problems from driving the bike such a short distance? I 
seem to remember that the carburetion got screwed up on mine after
a while, driving it only a few (< 5) miles per trip).
patrick
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