Take the battery out of trickle charge??
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what do you guys do.. leave the battery in the bike and trickle charge in the cold garage during the winter??? or
take it out and put it a nice warm house and trickle charge every now and then???
Been through tooo many batteries to buy yet another next year..
take it out and put it a nice warm house and trickle charge every now and then???
Been through tooo many batteries to buy yet another next year..
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Never had a problem with any of my batteries and I leave it on the bike and trickle charge it with one of those so called 'intelligent' battery optimisers / chargers. Mines an OptiMate III for the record. My stealer delivered the bike with a cable already installed to plug a charger into. I leave it on all winter and occaisionally wheel the bike out and start it and run it for 30 mins or so before tucking it back up again.
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I keep the battery in the bike also, but the bike is in my basement where it is about 60 degrees F all year around. I rode every month last year including Dec, Jan, Feb so it stays in the bike. I use the trickle charger every once in a while and charge until the light turns green and then unplug. I just don't like leaving it plugged in without me there.
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I store mine in my (cold) garage during the Ontario winters and leave the battery in with an automatic trickle charger plugged into the battery plug that was on the bike when I bought it new from the dealer. It's a 1.5 amp charger. Make sure you use an automatic...as the manual ones won't shut off. I've never seen the chargers green light change to red but for the last 3 years every spring she starts right up no problems.
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