Hey Bill,
I agree w/ that !......providing you ride often enough, and long enough to replace the juice that you took out from starting it.
The problem can come mostly in cold weather,.....
we want to ride, so we fire it up, roar off, and after 20 minutes or so, enough of this BS freezing cold, so we come back and park it,.........
never knowing that we didn't come close to replacing the juice that it took to start it,...especially in cold weather. So, every time we do this, the battery slowly becomes more discharged, w/o us even knowing it till all of a sudden one day it doesn't start. We then in turn think that the battery all of a sudden went bad, when in reality it was just slowly being discharged.
Not a problem ??? Just charge it up and we're ready for another week or 3 of "battery torture" !
Right, ....except the fact still remains that anytime a battery is less than FULL charged, it is slowly sulfating, and will show up in battery longivity.
It has been proven that if a battery stayed fully charged 100% of its life, it could last anything less than forever.....so to speak.
It is for this very reason why float chargers have become so popular, and really do increase battery longivity in such situations.
bill67 wrote on 09/14/10 at 06:14:26:I find the battery charger on the bike works best.