Hi guys...
New rider here, thanks to this forum's great info I bought an '02 Savage for my first bike after taking an MSF course last month.
My bike still had the original battery though, which was in pretty bad shape after sitting for a long time, but it was just enough to get it home and take it around the block a couple times. The bike had an underglow kit put on it by the previous owner though and I accidentally left it on for about a day and a half, and with the battery in its poor condition, it lost just enough charge not to crank anymore, plus I'm too new of a rider to compression start it and not let it die again.
So, given the age of the battery that came with the bike and the fact that I didn't want to mess with filling the battery and dealing with the tube and stuff in the future, I broke out the Clymers, took out the old battery and bought a new Big Crank EXT15L off of the great reviews here and a number of other bike forums.
As a complete newb to bikes and their batteries though, I don't get how I'm supposed to deal with the very different U terminals on this thing to get the leads reconnected. BatteryMart's customer reviews for the battery talk about bending the terminals to an "L" shape? Does this mean that I just crush in with a pair of pliers the side connectors on each terminal and only use the verticals or something? It's charging right now, but I'd love to get it in the bike and have it back to running ASAP!
Any advice or photos you guys have would be a huge help as I'm still pretty mechanically dumb with this bike and the Clymer's photos are not so good. Thanks!