Living in northern US most of my life, I know that even though the roads are clear and dry, they still have the residue of the salt or calcium chloride on them and it gets into every little nook and cranny.

I too have take a quick motorcycle ride on a clear winter day, but I pay for it later when trying to clean out all of the salt residue on the bike.

I normally wait until we've had a couple good rains after the last road treatment.

I'm sure you don't care and just said do it, but thought I would throw it out there for others that may want to wait until after a couple good rains to wash the crap off the roads.