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Oct 25th, 2011, 2:08 pm
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: San Marcos/Kingwood, TX, USA
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Storing/Parking Your Duc Outside
So who where actually store/park their Ducati outside 24/7? I currently live in an apartment complex and they just built a covered parking area. My 848 is at my parent's garage 3 hours away and i would like to bring the bike up to where i live. My plan is to get a bike cover and use chains and lock on the bike. I also have theft insurance on the bike. Even with all that, I just don't feel right about parking a Ducati outside.
It does not get very cold in Texas but it can sometime get to around high 30*F on colder days.
What do you all think? My optional plan (i'm going to get killed for this) is to trade the 848 for a CBR that i don't really feel too bad about parking outside, getting dirty, and etc.
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Oct 25th, 2011, 2:31 pm
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Location: Rancho Cordova, CA, USA
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Last edited by moto; Oct 25th, 2011 at 2:50 pm.
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Oct 25th, 2011, 5:54 pm
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Wonderful San Diego, California,
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Handozizle
So who where actually store/park their Ducati outside 24/7? I currently live in an apartment complex and they just built a covered parking area. My 848 is at my parent's garage 3 hours away and i would like to bring the bike up to where i live. My plan is to get a bike cover and use chains and lock on the bike. I also have theft insurance on the bike. Even with all that, I just don't feel right about parking a Ducati outside.
It does not get very cold in Texas but it can sometime get to around high 30*F on colder days.
What do you all think? My optional plan (i'm going to get killed for this) is to trade the 848 for a CBR that i don't really feel too bad about parking outside, getting dirty, and etc.
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Selling on for $100.00…..opens like a clam shell and in it goes….SORRY….IT was just sold…SORRY
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Oct 25th, 2011, 8:39 pm
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: phoenix, az, usa
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leave it outside and its gone within wks! that solution is ludicris!get a storage unit or leave it at parents...my ducs dont leave my sight..and when they are sleeping they are in a alarmed garage with steel doors,cameras,and two 140lb american bulldogs coming in and out as they please....the way this market is there are too many people out there thiefn..
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Oct 26th, 2011, 8:12 am
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Join Date: Jul 2009
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you're parents garage is the safest place. I'd keep it there if I were you
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Oct 26th, 2011, 9:25 am
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: York Harbor, ME, USA
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During the riding months I keep the bike in my back yard under a bike cover. During the winter it goes in heated storage at a friends office.
I'm not concerned about my bike being stolen or damaged (I live in a small "safe" town). I bought it to ride it, not sit in a garage hours away.
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Oct 26th, 2011, 7:53 pm
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Raleigh, or Boston, U S A
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Keep it where 'you' think it safe !
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Oct 26th, 2011, 8:01 pm
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Member
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: San Marcos/Kingwood, TX, USA
Posts: 34
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Yea screw it, i'm getting storage unit and not parking it outside.
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Oct 27th, 2011, 4:34 pm
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Central Square, NY, usa
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all my bikes sit outside all summer. then in my enclosed trailer in the winter.
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This is just my opinion and based on my very limited knowledge, but thats what the Internet is for giving losers the ability to show their ignorance in public.
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09 Honda CRF230L
08 Husqvarna TE610 everything the honda wasn't black, sexy, italian, fun to ride.
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58 Dodge M37A1 WO/W OD "Mini me"
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Oct 28th, 2011, 10:11 am
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Del Norte County, CA, USA
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I know this is a little "out there", but what about bringing it inside the apartment? Are you on the ground floor?
When I was a kid, my Bultaco was stolen while parked outside and chained up. I lived in a second floor apartment. Later when I got my new Husqvarna CR 250, I pushed/dragged it up those stairs to park it inside! 
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