How many people here SORN their motorbike for the winter?
I won’t ride mine until it’s warmer again, so seems like a wise thing to do for £30-£40 or so…
You need proper gear not SORN
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Yep, you can get some great ride outs in winter. Cold dry days can be awesome.
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Dude just went out this morning!!
I love riding in crisp cold weather and the scenery is so beautiful: leaves turning red,brown KTM orange!
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Haha! You lot are mad! It’s cooooollllldddd 
Winter gear is so bulky too
I loved my dainese winter 2piece. Felt very light. Ok.not mesh level lightness but still
A dry winter’s day is great for riding… Even better to ride when snow all around but roads dry
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Struth it’ll be some folks feel the rain and others get wet next
But I only taxed my bike this month after having SORNed it for the summer. Did I get that wrong?
Went out today for a wee trip around the Southampton area. Almost a good day, but my heated grips died on Wednesday and I missed them so much for my arthritic hands.
Being Honda O.E.M. ones they will probably charge even more to repair than their already overpriced cost.
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Rode 570 miles last weekend, Leeds then Snowdonia. Looking forward to more trips over the winter.
What you need are heated grips, heated seat and a big screen…
First Sunday of November is the London to Brighton veteran car run, I’ll be following on the the bike, can’t do it with a car. Early start, leaves from the Mall.
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Too much information! 
Funnily enough I’ve just re-taxed mine and I was having a quiet moan with myself how much it has gone up over the years, there was a time VED on a bike was a token few quid now it is enough quids that you actually notice it.
Even then it doesn’t seem worth the effort of SORN’ing just to save £30 and miss out on some nice rides.
My car however, that is a different story, I haven’t moved it since August and should have put it on SORN immediately on return from the summer holiday. And it’s a lot more quids.
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Stop being a fair weather rider 
Winter rides just become shorter and with more stops for coffees and cakes to warm up!
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You’ll probably miss autumnal sunsets if you’ve SORN’d the bike plus you can’t beat the feeling of a rear wheel spinning up in 3rd gear to really feel alive 
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Thought this was a biker’s forum?
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My wee CB500F wishes it were a mighty MT-07.
I was only out for a leisure ride, it started raining shortly after the puddle, I was wet, the heated grips had died recently, the roads were covered in wet leaves. It was obviously what to do.
So I just carried on for another 180 miles, stopping off in Clacton and enjoying the afternoon sun on dry roads. Lovely day.
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There was a time when a LB ride wasn’t an LB ride without a ford. Last across yours truly on an 11month old Bonne’
Happy Days
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I’m in that but I’ll be honest I don’t remember it.
TDM’s have that effect on people 
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