I'd love to ride mine thru winter aswell(especially as I've only had the carbon cans fitted for 2/3 weeks) but the traffic here is bad enough without all the rain, mud and other crap on the roads that winter brings along.

Just today when I was taking the bike from my house to my parents garage I high sided on a patch of mud from a nearby construction site and almost kissed tarmac!! My wife was following in the car and she shat herself. I was going pretty fast and I was right out of the seat so needless to say, I bricked it also!!