02-04-2019, 02:07 PM
(02-04-2019, 01:58 PM)The ferret_imp Wrote: [ -> ]My bikes get ridden fairly regularly, even in the winter, although my full fairing bikes get the call on most of the winter rides. All of the winter rides below freezing lol. The longest my CB has sat is 26 days and I felt guilty letting it sit that long, but the longest I have gone without riding is 3 days this winter. The FJR getting the call most of the time.
It's funny but a conversation I had onetime with Dale Walksler the owner of Wheels Thru Time Museum in Maggie Valley N.C. was an eye opener. He regularly gets in bikes that havent been run in nearly 100 years. I asked him how he prepped a bike that hadn't seen the light of day in years. He told me gets the old bike on the bench, puts fresh gas in them, makes sure there is oil in the crankcase, and then fires them up. He said motorcycles are mechanical things, that have no idea if they were turned off yesterday or 100 years ago.
Thinking about that made me wonder how long some of our CBs sit with out that little spark arcing in their 4 little spark plugs ignigting fuel. Like Teamvicegrip. Understand the circumstances, but can't imagine hi bike sitting there without breathing life for almost a year and a half.
I reckon one thing that comes to mind is humidity or odd times of condensation in the inactive cylinder walls building up iron oxide. Maybe if stored in a shelter, the first run simply scrapes any oxide off the walls, and assuming no piston ring seizure? I'd probably treat each cylinder with lubrication or an anti-seize treatment prior to take-off.
Maybe modern engines with their fancy cylinder wall alloys, or cylinder wall ceramic coatings (no sleeve inserts) don't have this problem anymore.
