whats the right way to warm your bike up in cold weather?

[BigMatt]

I know winters almost over, but whats the best way to warm your banshee up? I heard idling a banshee is bad, so how do you warm them up? drive around in 1st gear at low RPM's? also I have a vector and watch my water temps I dont rip on my bike till the coolant temp is around 100degrees whats the real safe warm up coolant temp?

[papa_smurf49319]

I dont ride in real cold weather, but this is how i warm my bike up everytime. Ill start it, let it idle, check my tires add air if needed, put my riding gear on which consists of gloves, helmet, googles, ill feel the pipes, if there startin to get pretty warm ill hop on her and take it easy for a couple minutes, and then let it rip. Common sense and you will be alright.

 

 

 

Cody

[volcrano]

I know winters almost over, but whats the best way to warm your banshee up? I heard idling a banshee is bad, so how do you warm them up? drive around in 1st gear at low RPM's? also I have a vector and watch my water temps I dont rip on my bike till the coolant temp is around 100degrees whats the real safe warm up coolant temp?

matt,idling is not even bad,it can foul plugs and load up ur bike if your jetting is wrong but if your not fouling plugs i wouldnt worry about letting it idle.i always start her up on choke and leave it choked for about 10 seconds,maybe lil less-keep it choked long enough so it will stay running when u turn it off then idle it for like 15 secs.then i keep mine off idle slightly for about 30 seconds then blip the throttle,let idle for about 10 secs and then off idle and blip.i then check the cylinder not the pipe.the pipe will heat up faster than the jugs and although it might not be bad to do that-i check the jugs.that tells me the piston is ready to go.ill just rev a little and keep blipping to clear fuel while i randomly touch the cylinder to make sure its warm,not lukewarm,like 100 degrees.i still putt for a second until about 115-then give er hell.your probably still good at 100 but i like to be safe-i anal about that shit.i also have a trail tech,i got the vapor

[BigMatt]

matt,idling is not even bad,it can foul plugs and load up ur bike if your jetting is wrong but if your not fouling plugs i wouldnt worry about letting it idle.i always start her up on choke and leave it choked for about 10 seconds,maybe lil less-keep it choked long enough so it will stay running when u turn it off then idle it for like 15 secs.then i keep mine off idle slightly for about 30 seconds then blip the throttle,let idle for about 10 secs and then off idle and blip.i then check the cylinder not the pipe.the pipe will heat up faster than the jugs and although it might not be bad to do that-i check the jugs.that tells me the piston is ready to go.ill just rev a little and keep blipping to clear fuel while i randomly touch the cylinder to make sure its warm,not lukewarm,like 100 degrees.i still putt for a second until about 115-then give er hell.your probably still good at 100 but i like to be safe-i anal about that shit.i also have a trail tech,i got the vapor

 

Thanks man just want to be safe, I to also had the vapor me and trail tech went back and forth to get the tach to work... no luck so they sent me the vector witch i like alot better they sent me the remote to, its setup more for racing. my jetting is not just right yet, I'm not sure what the guy before me ran as a mix I know he ran klotz R-50 but as far as 32-1 40-1 50-1 I tried 32-1 to rich than 50-1 to lean so now im at 40-1 I'll have to chop the plugs a little later to see thanks tho_

[AKheathen]

ok, here's what i do all winter.......pull the choke and start it no throttle......it might die, just do it again....after 5 seconds or so, i start bliping and reving untill it cleans out some, and let it idlewith the choke off after that.......then i unload it from the trailer or whatever for a min and go play around a bit on it for a min and then gear up. when jetted properly, it's not gonna run clean for swhit unless it's warmmed up anyways