I ride an '08 Fatboy. After two or three short rides ( 5 miles or so) I start to lose cranking power from my battery.
I thought this might have been a one time thing, but its a chronic issue now, as I have to put my bike on the trickle charger
once a week. My bike has never not started but I've had it crank very slowly a couple of times wondering whether there was enough juice.

Anyone have this prob? What do I do?

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Ride it further

 

Take the battery back to the stealer ship and demand a new one for the bike and see if you have a problem with that onethe battery you have know might have lost a cell and won't hold the charge.
good luck

 

thanks for the suggestions !

 

Definately have the battery tested first. You might want to look at the battery connections to see if they are clean,and tight.

 

Dude, Take it in and get new battery, I have left my switch on and did not see it for 3 days! good thing I had a charger with a motorcycle charger bulit in, but charged it for 1 hour bike slowly started up, and rode 12 miles on highway and she is hot and never gets discharged, I can go weeks and bike still starts, butnow since the rains have passed I'M Riding! PURPLE HAZE.

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Stealer fixed it. The problem was a loose ground wire, says I could have blew up the ECM or whatever...I'm thinking " you delivered the bike to me this way.."