As Woodie says, around here temperatures go below freezing for about 4 months and we get up to 10 feet of snow each winter.  Back in a younger day I rode all year, but it was on a 125cc that weighed about 180 pounds and had about 300 sheet metal screws in each tire.  I don't think road ice would be very kind to something as big and heavy as a K bike.

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I find my bikes feel better when the front tire pressure is a few pound less than what's in the rear tire. Typically the differential is around 3-4 lbs.

I use 38 front and 42 rear for solo riding. That's after many years of finding what is for me a perfect balance. Bridgestone Battlax BT45 front and rear.

Set your tire pressures to 38 front 42 rear.

Thanks for the tips re: tire pressure.
I will try them.

While fiddling again with the idle speed, I had an idea.
My green starter button is missing the spring and top hat portion of the button.
It has not seemed to be a problem, but the switch does randomly close while the bike is running due to vibration, bumps in the road, and jolts of that sort. The button does enrich the mixture when the engine is running, at idle the button increases rpm, at 3k rpm it decreases rpm, presumably because of too rich mixture. While riding the bike the change in mixture\rpm is not noticeable to me, but I believe it nevertheless occurs. I think the random closures of the starter button switch which enrich the mixture has caused my sub-par fuel mileage. I of course can be wrong, but I am going to pursue this cause.

So I need to fabricate a proper starter button. The archives here have a few fixes, tomorrow I will try them.