Battery question

totally understood. BUT there is only so much damage you can do to a mans wallet between paydays. AND mine got beat all to heck this one. :gah:

Fully understand! Unless you're a Bll Gates or T. Boone Pickens, I think we are all feeling a serious pinch right now. Heck, I was thinking about retiring next year, but my IRA etc. just went south with all the jobs.:cussing:

Sorry, I misunderstood why you were keeping an eye on it. The guy has them up for sale continually so if you need to wait awhile, there will be more listed for that price. I bought mine some time back and I think they MAY have gone up $3.00 -$4.00 is all.

Sorrry for the misunderstanding!

Hahahaha No big deal!! It's all good and it is never a misunderstanding until both sides are thoroughly confused. :roflmao:

Yo Chuck:

The hyperlink you posted is a great Battery-101 lesson. They even concur with the use of trickle chagers (or I interpret as a Battery Tender)!

"Stored batteries can be left on a trickle charge or at least topped off every couple of months."

Wow, I had not even thought about Batteries plus. There is one not too far from my house. NICE price too. I will have to commit that one to memory hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

well lord knows every time I commit something to memory something else gets deleted in its place. I just wish I could decide what gets deleted and what not. :roflmao:

amazon.com has good prices on tenders too

got an 02

Wow I bought a battery for my car the other day 88 dollars!!! when did that happen?!?#??#$ My bike is an 02 and has the original battery..never used a tender and the bike might sit a month the longest without being started. I was gonna leave work the other day for lunch and it did not even click, I thought that was the end of it then. Turned out that it was just a loose positive cable. The cable actually arches i upward and over the terminal. The seat and my weihgt worked it loose. Real nice design..real nice....(yeah sarcasm).Should have fixed that a long time ago..but hey only got me once to date. But I am gonna go in the 09 with an 02 battery. I am sure when it strands me I will be still P/O!! LOL.

good luck and you will get it figured out. We actually had a wire on a buddy's bike that wore through and caused all kind of grief!!!! Look close...
750 miles then BAM.. popping (through a thunder header!!)and stopping looking and taking off the bowl... etc... one stinking little wire all of a sudden finally wore through and one piece of electrical tape fixed it all. GOOD LUCK!!!
Later
Voo1

My battery went to ckicking yesterday I was in an accedent last month and could'nt ride so the bike was sitting. I bought a charger/tender at
Wally-World after getting a full charge it switches to tender mode. The only thing I'm wonderingdoes anyone think that the pigtail plug should have a cap to keep water and crap from getting into it? It works great only paid $20.00

I don't know whatcha bought, but mine came with a rubber blind plug to plug into the wire from the battery. Perhaps you got a returned one that somebody broke? I'd check it out and exchange it if that's the case.

It appeared to be sealed and packed tightly but there was no blind cap. It worked fine. Maybe I can find a cap for a trailer hitch or inprovise one .

found one at the auto parts store all is well