Masochist.
If you wanted a winter hack why not buy an old BMW RT. 80 or 100 makes little difference.

I bought my last bike (and my first for 21 years) off Ebay for £1200, with 123,000 on the clock. R100RT, 3 owners, never failed to start down to -11. OK, below freezing you had to pour boiling water on the carbs, but on one occasion I improvised. No longer agile enough to stop mid-stream and run round, I thawed one side, let her run on one pot for 2 minutes and both caught.

She went this week, having spat out a plug along with a fair bit of the head. 141000, and if I could have found someone to fix her for less than she eventually fetched as "spares or repair", I'd have kept her going. Apart from oil and plugs, the most I spent in 3 years overall was £500, mostly on a new clutch and gearbox rebuild.

R1100RS coming on Friday!
(all my scars face forward possesses 2.5% of a hyperalloy combat chassis, Sun 7 Nov 2010, 0:46, Reply)