Winter doesn’t care if you’ve been riding four months or forty years—it will still find a new way to test you. The pavement hardens, rubber stiffens, and the habits you trust in July can betray you in January. Most winter crashes don’t happen because riders are reckless. They happen because good riders assume the road will behave like it does in summer. It won’t.So today, we’re breaking down 12 things you should never do on a motorcycle in winter—the real-world mistakes that catch riders off guard every single year. And number one? It’s the one even veteran riders get wrong.