I haven't been using my motorbike as much lately and the battery has been dying. I think the last time I started it was about 5 weeks ago, today I can't even kick-start it.
How often and how long with each ride do you suppose you'd have to ride your motorbike at a minimum to keep it functional?
If you let a bike sit to the point of battery discharge, can you use a battery charger periodically to get it going again, or will the battery need to be replaced?
Keeping Seldom Used Motorbike Functional?
mtgmike
21 September 2020 07:29:11
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Wxx3
22 September 2020 21:27:04
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How long can it sit before the battery won't start it?
If it's just a couple of days, the battery is shot. Replace it.
If it's a couple of weeks, battery is so-so, keep on battery trickle charger.
If it's 5+ weeks, probably good, but charge on trickle charger once a week or put on smart charger that will stop charging when battery is full.
Live on a hill and "push-start" it.
Hooked
22 September 2020 22:12:23
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Yes I agree trickle charge and gas additive for storage if they sell it in Vn
SteinNebraska
23 September 2020 02:58:10
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We are going to test this theory. I just put a new battery into my Triumph Tiger 800XC in the summer of 2019. Since I haven't been able to go home at all this year it's been on a battery tender for more than a year already now, soon to be 24 months by the time I get home in June 2021.
danrodri
23 September 2020 04:55:34
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I'm leaving my bike here in Malaysia for God knows how long...no idea when I can return. Would it make sense to simply unplug the battery before I leave?
Hooked
23 September 2020 05:07:34
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Drain the carburetor of all fuel
Un hook battery cable to bike
goodolboy
23 September 2020 06:00:22
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Hooked wrote:Drain the carburetor of all fuel
Un hook battery cable to bike
If the bike is going to sit for more than a month, I would completely drain all the fuel, fuel left in a bike goes stale quickly & causes all sorts of problems!
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