winter in australia - better get out and ride before summer comes back and evaporates me

This dude does the absolute most lol. Word on the street is that foreplay with a girl usually takes him around 3 hours

There's a winterization technique I'd love to try.... moving somewhere with no winter!

Future Ryan to past Ryan when he makes stabilised fuel: "What are you doing?!!!"

You should be a college professor. You make boring topics enjoyable to listen to.

1:37 nice job with the pour :p

Winterization in SoCal. 1. Close the vents on your helmet cause it might get to a chilly 60 degrees. Done.

A hint. Ask at dealers that sell fridges for the boxes those fridges came in. Go down the 4 corners with your box cutter and voila! You have four long cardboard pads that you can walk your bike onto. That will protect your concrete garage floor, or your dad's driveway from oils change / storage drips, over-spray from chain cleaning, and lubing. Now dad wont't slash your tires.

Let me know when you ever sell your bikes. Ill buy them even if I don't need them if this is how you maintain it.

This dude is legit awesome so very informative . I normally get to bored with other kids cause they move so slow with Lil info. But he puts so much information into such a small video and also delivers it very well and interesting it keeps you engaged in listening

Love that "I love bavaria" sign in the background. Greetings from bavaria!

Damn you for living in one of the few parts of Canada where riding in the winter is a reasonable option. Good timing on the video... just tucking my babies away today...

Every time I watch one of these vids, I learn something. After riding for 40+ years. Thanks!

Here I am at age 36, 3 years into coming back into riding after getting my very first ride at 4 years old, riding Motocross, until I had to move into middle of nowhere Iowa and slowly fading out of what is the greatest thing to ever exist on human Earth: riding motorcycles. I'm winterizing my motorcycle by simply changing the oil and not stopping to ride 🙂

Don't care about the subject mate, but your a slick presenter, you would dominate UK Bike media, its full of quite flat well intention-ed people but you and your clearly great production team would do really well imho

All great info, but in my experience also unnecessary just to over winter for a few months IF your bike is stored in a garage. Where I live, I ride until usually mid November and then resume riding in mid March. So give or take 5 months max (with an occasional ride here and there over winter if we have a particularly nice day and I want to bust out the electrics). I have never done a full winterization process to any bike and have never had a problem, all I do is the following. 1) ensure that my tank is always full when I return home. 2) Keep the bike on a battery maintainer that will deep cycle the battery from time to time whenever it is parked at home (Always). 3) If the bike has a center stand, I put it on the stand and use a small scissor jack to take the weight off the front tire (Keeps the tires off the ground) If not, I use a stand that goes on the rear swingarm to at least keep the rear wheel up and the bike upright. Doing this I have never once in over 30+ years of riding had a situation where a bike would not start after a winter. Without fail, in March, I turn the key, thumb the starter and the bikes fire right up. And with only one exception (that I sadly wrecked) every bike I have ever owned, to my knowledge is still on the road today :) Of course YMMV :)

Your research makes my life with my bike SOOO much simpler, THANK YOU FOR SHARING IT. I just have to follow your advice, and my bike is safe. Thank you for all the links at the bottom of the page.

LOL, I love how when you're about to put gas in the Stihl blower, you end up spilling gas all over but cut away!

Thanks for the tips, I live in Adelaide, South Australia, and our winter is cold and wet and NO Snow! So I get to ride most of the year, Thanks for the Winter Tips, a lot of that is applied for winter rides.... Be safe....

An interesting comment on batteries. Personally, all my bikes get permanent quick-disconnect leads attached to the battery pretty much as soon as I bring them home. The battery is connected to a cheap Motomaster "smart" trickle charger anytime the bike is in the garage. Never had one sulfate on me. Indeed, the only motorcycle battery I've replaced this century was on the '86 Voyager XII that I bought used whose old battery wouldn't hold a charge. Oh, and Kudos for saying "formulae" instead of "formulas".

Very thorough, well organized, and as always, with just enough humor to brighten any cynics dim view of life.

Very nice video. Good advice, things you don't hear often, and great video editing. As always, a joy to watch.

LMAO at the defensive mouse trap perimeter!

Exactly what I needed since this was my first season. Thanks Ryan.

The planning that went into the first half of this video was genius!

10 minute video, 10 hour winterization. Perfect timing for the video as I plan to winterize my bike tomorrow

Test strips are good but a coolant refractometer works very well, too :) and they do battery acid on the same tester

You crack me up...bravo. I can get the info I need, without being bored to death. I’ve been riding longer than you’ve been alive, but you always teach me something I didn’t know, so thanks. Keep the vids coming. I also shop at Fortnine as a way of saying thanks for the great vids.

Fuck man you scared the shit out of me. I'm going to just leave it in the garage & pray to God that he is going to watch of the little engine.

I truly enjoy your videos. They are informative , enlightening and entertaining. The dry humor is great. Thank you!

I have an electric motorcycle so full-fledged winterization is a thing of the past for me! Thanks for another great video!

Arrr -4C last night in the Laurentians but got a ride in through the beautiful autumm colours and wondered how to sadly winterize... home dark out and there's the video with answers.. Perfect timing.

And here is me, after watching the whole 10min and thinking, well it's good to know that this exists even though I ride all year long. But that moisture thing on the metals and the seat wax it's good advice.

Thanks for This! My beloved NC700X is fast approaching it's first winter and I need all the tips I can get!

Bru! THE WILDEST how to Vids EVER! Informative and yet, entertaining! Great advice.

Thanks Ryan for the most informative videos , maybe too academic but that's you. My experience tells me use fuel sta-bil on full tank gas, cover bike with cloth. Clean and lube chain. Ride and start all = 15 min biweekly. But one thing more which nobody mentioned. If a floor heater faced toward engine for a 3 min pre startup and 3 min after. It helps with managing rough starts and makes engine reach optimal operating temp very fast. The bike after that very smooth even during winter months.

Up until 3 weeks ago I had decided to put "Thera" away for the winter. You give good advice!!!

Where I live we don’t have winter, but I watched this video anyway. It’s good info to have just in case!

"Cool" vid. I really dig your new garage-studio. Those are pretty neat toolboxes you've back there. Should we expect more techincal/mechanical vids in the future? Please keep doing your vids. P.S. for the vid editor, I like the floating signs with the names of the products!

So glad I live in Southern California where I can ride pretty much every day. And I do!

holy crap, this video was much better than I expected.

I don't worry about blocking the mufflers but I always put a plastic bag under the airbox cover to keep vermin out. Re road salt: I commuted on motorcycles for 3 decades, with sidecars for winter. I learned early that you shouldn't use your good bike after they start salting the roads (it costs less to keep a beater than you would spend keeping one bike in good shape) and washing a bike in winter makes it rust faster plus gets water into places where it can freeze and cause problems so I never wash the winter one until after the street sweeper has made its spring rounds.

So Cal. Land of abundant sunshine and warmth.

This is awesome, especially since my steed is a DRZ400S. 🙂 Thank you!

Hello from California. Ryan you are the man, love the videos and info you give us. Keep up the good work.

at last f9 is back, stay on the path mate.

4:43 - 5:18 Genius. LOVE your channel, thank you Ryan F9...

Ryan i sold the 1090R and got a 450 exc 6 days. Loving it!!!

Awesome video! I live in Massachusetts and I have to have the bike outside for the winter and I was really worried about what to do and this really hit all the questions I was wondering about! Thanks! 😎🤘

Just watching that video made me so glad that I live somewhere I can ride all year around.

Very informative RyanF9! Thank you for this.

this channel is way underrated

You can tell the company has a mainly Canadian demographic because the biggest arguement here is how much someone loves Ryan.

That was the best video for winterizing I have seen. To be honest I might like it the best because it's pretty much what I do already. I did not know about the battery issue but that does make sense.

I agree, Always make sure to replace your tires summer with Winter air

Super helpful; way to be on it Ryan!

Good info. In northern cali here it just rains alot. But really good storage tips all around. especially that last part about the cover. I'd also like to add, open containers of kitty litter soak up lots of moisture aswell. Those are my secret weapon.

Hello goddamn ryan F9 from goddamn 5 years ago! Your goddamn channel was pretty dope back then but is absolutely killing it right now, 5 yrs into the future. Y u so gud fam?!

Actual winterization takes a lot longer than the “10 minutes” Ryan says ! Hell it took me 10 minutes just to find cardboard !

Ryan deserves an Emmy.

As always, one of the best bike vid styles out there. Puts some of our middle aged, fart knockers with a helmet go pro to shame.

Love F9! ❤️

The best advice by far , as usual.

I usually don't ride between, roughly, mid-November to mid-February. My winterization: top off the fuel tank. Cover the bike. Done. So far, she's always come alive immediately when I got her out on the first sunny and dry day. ^^ Then again, I live in Germany. xD Anyway, I enjoy your channel very much, so keep up the good work. : )

I cleaned and waxed the seat of my cbr once. The next ride I genuinly almost fell off the bike at 130km/h. Never going to do that again, for sure.

Ryan, great video as always, best regards from Argentina!

The fuel stabilizer that I buy from Lordco accommodates 75 litres of fuel, more than enough protection for the two machines I park for the season.Don't have pigtails so the batteries get removed and connected to maintenance chargers. I clean them and cover them until Spring and they have always been good to go with these storage procedures. Cheers!

I leave my bike in the garage over Winter here in Sweden up to -35C. I have always left my battery on an Optimate plugged into the bike and my last battery lasted twelve years ! I also put the bike on a bike lift to keep the tyres off the ground and use the best fuel I can find to completely fill the tank (E5 here). An oil change before Winter storage so that old corrosives from combustion aren't kept in the engine and I chuck a cover over her. Always starts first push of the starter button in Spring :)

Winter is always coming. Great vid

Hi Ryan, I love your videos, great content as always! I'm from Brazil, we use carnaúba wax for a lot of applications here, including of course waxing the tank, but I never thought this wax was available and used in other countries too, nice to know!

Brilliant video. Informative AND funny!! Great job :)

So.Cali winterization: Step 1. There is no step 1. Done!

"midwinter cuddle" :3

Another great video. I think it might be interesting to see how you winterize other drive systems, example a belt drive.

I'm never going to complain about British winters ever again!!!

Great video thanks from Long Island NY

I glad I live in Australia F9 as I can ride ALL year around

love that the most replayed is Ryan winterizing the floor at 1:38

wow, glad you made such guide! As for newbie - lots of hints.

Brilliant channel, brilliant video

Your awesome! Best vids about motorcycles period!!!!! Keep it up bro!

My routine: 1. Buy house in Southern California 2. Ride there for the winter 3. Return to Chicago in late Spring 4. Repeat cycle

Ryan! You're my favorite Canadian since my Grandpa George moved to the States from Billings Bridge, ON back around 1924! Keep up the good work and keep the intetesting stuff coming, eh? PS: Taking your seat off your bike and taking it in the house can also prevent mice from eating thru the vinyl and making a winter nest inside. Don't ask me how I know...!

In a few weeks I will enjoy this video one more time

Am not sure we'll ever get winter in Kenya but Ryan makes a video, i watch the video.

Really practical & helpful thanks for the info.

These guys need more subs for the work they do

That midwinter cuddle... hahaha ha thanks for the awesome informative video fortnine.

breathtaking

Great video as usual, Ryan..

I like your style man!

YESSSS FORTNINE IS BACK!!!

I like how you put on your safety glasses to wax it but not spray the toxic de orangeing of the chain 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. Love the channel

Always good information and always entertaining

In SW Ontario I'll have to park it and change the oil but bang on otherwise. Good vid.

This channel is Emmy awards material

Lots of excellent tips, thanks!

Haha, I love the way you say “Carnaúba”. Only when I hear foreigners speak Portuguese I realize how difficult my language really is..

I will never have to do this. But it was such a great video I had to watch the whole thing.

That's a pretty awesome charger. Thanks for the link.