cubz
L plate rider.
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Post by cubz on Jan 1, 2011 22:22:34 GMT 1
iv been keeping my bike nice and warm in the kitchen ;D
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Post by leaky on Jan 1, 2011 23:25:54 GMT 1
I've lost a watering can (split in half) and the hozelock spraygun on my hosereel, but most importantly- a YPVS engine that was sat on the garage floor obviously hadn't been cooled with anything like 50% A/F by the previous owner. It had an icicle about 5" long sticking out of the lower coolant stub! I actually knocked it off as I walked past the engine... thank God it wasn't still plumbed into the bike as I dread to think what would have split!
-14 degrees was our lowest and I know that wasn't the lowest in the country...
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Post by mellow on Jan 2, 2011 13:00:56 GMT 1
didnt go n e where near freezing in my lounge ;D
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doy
Thrash Merchant
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Post by doy on Jan 3, 2011 12:38:57 GMT 1
My lc actually froze up with anti-freeze in  Luckily i had left the rad cap off when i had checked it so had a lovely little frozen glacier out of the filler and down the rad  Hopefully leaving the cap off saved it but going to fire her up this week to check. |
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Post by midlifecrisisrd on Jan 3, 2011 12:53:34 GMT 1
The list is endless for me, garage water pipe burst in 5 places, tarmac on drive split from where the moisture in the ground expanded as it froze, steps at front of house lifted and retaining walls in garden bellied and cracked from the expansion behind them to mention a few. Will end up having to fix all that rather than spend time on the bikes  Steve. |
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Post by Norbo on Jan 3, 2011 13:21:33 GMT 1
Ill have to take a look at a F2 i have standing out the back at my mums with nothing but a cover over it . I hope it had anti freez in it /
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Post by looey on Jan 3, 2011 14:53:02 GMT 1
Nothing for us thank god !. All the bikes are either in the house or in a heated garage (lowest temp I saw in the the Garage was +5 degress), and I turned all water supplies off to anything outside and empied things with water in and left all taps wide open. I checked the coolant in the expansion bottles of me 2 cars and me van at the lowest temps we had and none of them had frozen at all. When I saw the forecasted temps I knew if I don't do anything then damage would occur  |
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Post by mellow on Jan 3, 2011 19:19:25 GMT 1
Nothing for us thank god !. All the bikes are either in the house or in a heated garage SENSIBLE MAN ;D |
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Luckily i had left the rad cap off when i had checked it so had a lovely little frozen glacier out of the filler and down the rad 
