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Originally Posted by bigfour
Looks like I'll be riding all winter, including regular trips between Albany and Boston.
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Whats your experience level with riding in the winter? If the answer is "Not much", I encourage you to do some short trips after it gets really cold and BEFORE you start out on that trip to Boston.
Unless you are a recent transplant to the area, you should already know that winter can be really nasty in that area at times. Think it through. The electrical system on a GZ won't support a lot of electric clothes.
As for the oil: Lower number is thinner, higher number is thicker. First number is how it acts when cold; second number is how it acts when hot. So.......the recommended 20W40 acts like a 20 weight when cold and acts like a 40 weight when hot. Manual recommends 10W30 for cold so I'd get 10W30 synthetic (non-energy conserving).