I've logged thousands of road trip miles, and made the mistake once of leaving the ignition on, on my Heritage, coming off a Dyna I was just used to the key. Luckily AAA was right down the road.

I guess I've rolled the dice over the past several years. Just planning on a lot more touring this year since they lifted the travel bans and would like to be a little more prepared.

Just an out loud thought, curious if anyone carries one?

 

I bought one from cycle gear, used it once on my car twice on GF car and on my friends bikes on a few occasions, worth the $50.00 I paid a few years ago, I keep it in the saddlebag.

 

I keep the Micro-start on the bike. https://themicrostart.com/
Only used once but it saved our butts. Buddies Heritage wouldn't start in the middle of the Colorado mountains after a stop. 75 miles from the nearest dealer. He had a bad battery we later found out.
Left it on for 10 min and it finally started.

 

This is the exact reason I've been considering one, I grabbed a flat tire repair kit for the "just in case" situation. Doing a lot of remote back country riding in Northern New England, I've stopped before just to take in the scenery and noticed I had zero cell service, always better to have it and not need it then the alternative.

 

I've carried one for a few years, only had to use it once. Came out of the hotel room in the morning, bike turned over a few times slowly but no go. Put one clamp on the positive post of the starter, the other on the footpeg...fired right up. Battery was just starting to go south, would start good during the day but sitting overnight would drain enough that it wouldn't start.

 

I have the Antigravity XP-10. It's in the saddlebag whenever the tires are rolling.

I have used it to start everything from a small lawn tractor to my Tundra. When the power went out in Texas this past February, I used it to keep my cellphone and computer charged.

 

Welcome to how we all rode before cell phones. Few times even the cows looked at us stange like what are you doing out here

I picked up an Antigravity jump booster a couple years ago, used it several times to start cars so far. Set up my RK and my shovel both with the remote harness so you just plug it in instead having to pull stuff to get to the battery's. Figure since I spent money and got prepared I'll never have to use it on my own stuff

 

Just ordered 2 different lithium jump starter packs on Amazon. Gonna carry one on bike. Anyone know of an attachment that I can connect to my battery tender cable that is already attached to battery? That way if I need to jump the bike I wouldn't have to take off seat and whatever else to get to battery terminals.

 

The tender cable hookup is too light gauge to jumpstart, you'll burn something out.

They sell beefier versions just for jumping, it needs to look like this.

 

just clamp the positive onto your starter post, ground to anything metal on the bike. don't have to take anything apart. doing it that way is taking the bad battery out of the equation to start it. power comes directly from the booster pack.