We all love a winter project, don’t we? Something to occupy our time and minds during those long, cold months, so we don’t start clawing at the furniture out of boredom. It’s necessary enrichment for auto enthusiasts who live in northern climates, but we’re also prone to biting off more than we can chew — starting on projects without nearly enough time to finish them.
It may only be January right now, but as I’m writing this it’s 44 and raining outside my Brooklyn apartment. It feels like spring is right around the corner, and my projects are definitely not done. I bet you’re in a similar state. What does your car need before spring rolls around?
My winter project was to sell my last bike, which was sort of accomplished in a roundabout manner. This left me with a new winter project, though: Cleaning up the tail on my new Suzuki GSX-8R. It needs a tail tidy like I need oxygen, and I need to pick one up and get it mounted to the bike before spring. I can’t be showing up to bike nights with that dweeby rear end.
It also needs a phone charger wired up, which I luckily already have — I’m just waiting for a warm enough day to actually sit outside and do it. Today would have been that day, but I don’t love the idea of working with a motorcycle battery in the rain. That’s the reason, nothing else. I’m not procrastinating the phone charger even a little.
Those are the bits my bike needs to be spring-ready, but what about your project? Do you just need to swap your summer tires back on when the time is right, or do you have a disassembled engine sitting on a bench somewhere that needs to make its way into a vehicle? Let me know down below, and I’ll collect my favorite answers later in the week.