MOPED ARMY

Step one. Bundle up.

Step two. Dong get frost bite.

Depends how cold. I ride all year around in Charlotte. Even rode to a

Couple events when it was in the upper teens. No biggie. 2strokes like cold.

I made the pressumption that to ride in cold weather required adjusting the jetting?

I recall riding my Puch in cold weather and having a hell of a time trying to start it. Hmm so is adjusting the jetting only for the barometric pressure of the air /elevation?

There's a Fortnine video on a two-stroke bike. He talks about jetting for a minute or two. I'm very new to bikes is all.

i like the carhartt winter overalls! nothing better then riding up and down the street on a nice sunny 35 degree day after it snowed. be careful of those snow patches and use an old bike because the sand. il try to make a video tomorrow of me ripping up my road on a maxi stocker. cars coming at me get scared and slow way down so i just pull over to the side and chill for a minute( quite country roads). (edited)

You may have to upjet.

Watch out for step no 2 tho.

Depending on how close to the limit you're running you might need to upjet, likely it's a good idea. As mentioned denser air = more oxygen. from an ideal gas perspective, 70 degrees F is a change of around 10% in air density so you should need a little more gas to compensate in winter by upjetting.

It'll be usually trickier to start also because the gas wont atomize as well, more condenses on everything until it gets warmed up. this is where choke is required, unfortunately it also gets easier to flood. and sometimes it's harder to get things moving in the denser oil.

I'm telling you all this because it's interesting HOWEVER from a PRACTICAL standpoint you DO NOT NEED TO WORRY much about it. go start your bike. if it runs crappy after it's warmed up, upjet. if it's hard to start, try starterfluid on the coldest days and use the choke. and bundle yourself like crazy, especially gloves.

Are you ok

Make sure your zipper is up when winter riding.

Pretty much always do this....

All that for 40 above? :)

Yea because my fingers were freezing, all else good and warm.

Riding my mb5 in the snow every day to work was so fun, I miss being able to do that

Colin likes to worry about jetting and air leaks...

I grew up 40 miles south of where he currently lives, which is literally a stone's throw from Lake Erie, elevation 569 feet, in Lake County Ohio. The highest point in the county I live in, Geauga, is 1319 feet, 750 feet higher, and I lived about 3 miles from that highest point.

I rode my stock Motron (Minarelli V1) in weather ranging from 15 degrees to 100 degrees F 40 years ago, and had no issues. The only "jet" I knew of back then were those things in the sky and a Paul McCartney song. I have to think that up jetting or down jetting would make no significant difference.

Somebody recently told me to switch to a warmer spark plug. Back then, I could never find the correct plug for that motor, a Champion L9G, because nobody would stock a gold tipped plug.

So in the 3 years and 6000 miles that I rode the bike from 79 to 82, I never did anything different to the bike from summer to winter.

As far as clothing; layers, a snow mobile suit, and thick gloves.

i just got a snowmobile helmet this year, holy shit i wish i had bought one of these years ago.

windproofing is the key, i have a tourmaster transition 3 jacket that i wear now, its hi-vis because i figure any time i'm riding in bad enough shit to need it, i don't care about looking like a doofus.

unless you have some super tuned up thing, usually you don't have to rejet until about 30 degrees, then again at zero. my snowmobile is jetted for 0 and barely runs when its 30 out.

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Those things cost more than I paid my FA50. LOL

You want nice gear you pay for it.

That's true .

Is a point required ? ;)