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I promised myself in retirement I'd have a conditioned garage/workshop. So now life is good when it comes time to service a bike. No more numb hands in the winter or leaving the garage door open in the summer only to be devoured by mosquitoes! A garage is not ideal to heat and cool though. Lots of gaps around the doors let cold air in. So in the winter, when the temps drop well below 30 degrees (like tonight as I write this...low teens!) I set the thermostat to 50 in an effort to keep my utility bills under control. Still, it's wonderful not to have to wipe the sweat out of my eyes in the summer or worry about bikes that are too cold to start in the winter.
19 below zero F is too cold, I have not left the house all day. Dogs can't go to the off leash park either.
When I was a kid on the farm I told myself that I was never ever going to freeze my ass off doing chores, milking cows, etc. again. <shrug> I literally fell off the tractor one time from hypothermia. Could barely make it to the house.The shop is 68 degrees in the Winter, 74 degrees in the Summer.
Cold was the only reason I ever drafted a semi, staring at those taillights hoping a retread didn't come flying at me.That was in the Poconos. I was working in New Jersey and knew it would be 10 degrees warmer if I could make the low lands.
I promised myself in retirement I'd have a conditioned garage/workshop.
I can't handle working out in the cold. My 3 car garage is insulated and drywalled so even in the dead of winter when the temps dip down in the single digits; the garage is still at least 35 degrees and actually rarely below 40 degrees. Luckily I have a basement with a walkout that I can fit the Italian bikes through the door. The Harleys are too wide so they stay in the garage.
Decades ago I rode from Charlottesville to NYC in a freezing rain. The toll taker on the GW bridge had to unzip my jacket, take out the money, put the change back in and zip it up. He didn’t miss a beat.