Hi Ronnie,

Appreciate your business. Good to hear you got/are getting a good life out of them.

Yep, I think AG grew too fast for their own good, letting they QC drop and not regarding it as a priority to get resolved.

I need a smaller battery for my Sporty, so have been looking at some other lithium batteries. I spoke with Shorai last week, and they do Not recommend the small form batts they have for the sporty...they used to, but had too many of them taking a dump, so they no longer recommend them. Not sure what I will end up with.

 

I replaced my 1200 battery in 2018, thought about a lithium, but decided to go with a standard AGM and carry my Li jumper as backup. Had a 600 mAmp that worked ok but was getting old, got a bigger one that started my pickup truck last month when the battery got too low (spun that motor fast!), so unless the AGM shorts out (even a jumper won't help with that I found out the hard way), shouldn't get stuck. Bought the parts to make a 10awg replacement for the battery tender wire so I can hook the jumper up to it real easy if needed. Have an SAE/EC adapter for the jumper, too, still have some SAE stuff but even some of the newer tenders are going to EC connectors, have to use EC5 instead of EC3 for 10 awg wire. Might be pigtails made up in 10awg by now, haven't looked. Have enough parts I could and should make these little battery pigtails for all the bikes, pita to reach the battery and use alligator clips on most of them, and all have 18 awg wires for tenders, I don't dare try a jumper on those.

 

Man, I must be getting old.

It was 39* this morning on the ride in. I had my heated jacket up all the way and I was still COLD!

Just a few years ago I was not that cold even down at 30 degrees.

 

A couple of days ago I had to do a 300 mile run for some stress/pressure testing of a new product we're working on.

It started out cold (but thankfully not raining) as I headed southeast on the interstate.

Took a little detour on Natchez Trace-







Ran about 60 miles total on the Trace, stopped at a Visitor Center...








...did a little status check...









...then did a few more miles on the Trace...








...then got back on the interstate and ran into Alabama about 20 miles.








Turned around and headed back.







Ended up doing 320 miles. Everything tested out well. Temps varied from 48 up to 55 down in Alabama.

Even though it was mostly interstate, it beat sitting in the office. And running the Trace for a bit was nice.

 

"THIS" is what a Heritage is supposed to look like. Even has my all time favorite color combo.

 

Thanks man. I like it too. Lot of work to get it where it is.

Couple of threads on what all I've done with it- https://www.hdforums.com/forum/softa...thank-you.html

https://www.hdforums.com/forum/softa...er-2016-a.html

Couple before/after pics-

 

Yeah but, how you commin on the new battery for the Sport?

 

I went ahead and picked up a small Shorai...against their recommendations. It is even smaller than the Antigravity I had (that lasted 8+ years). Have not taken the time to install it yet. Lots of irons in the fire. When I do, I'll take some pics and post them here, along with how it works (or doesn't work).

 

Subscribed! What a great thread.

 

on the Kank in NH during Laconia in '16