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The fractured ice that PP references suggests that water penetration, not too thick a lube, is the source of his problems.
Some areas don't use road salt like the Great Lakes region does. The salt turns dry snow into slush and thus allows greater penetration of salty water into the bike's insides. In those salt free areas the issue is more lube dependent. Here in the Rust Belt we see more problems of freezing water pushing lube out of the internals and with it's salt far faster corrosion. Andy
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