https://earthxbatteries.com/

 

They're proud.

 

Do you ever NOT overthink everything?

 

Those are all good points, and given the anti-gravity restart feature isn't recommended on my 114 I might do exactly the same...

 

Some can, but certainly not all. You'd think this is such a key product feature, that if a battery is okay with it the mfg would print it on the box and in all marketing collateral - in bold 48pt blinking comic sans!!!

 

Motorcycles are often left parked for months on end. AGM and other SLAs self-discharge (in addition to the small load from the bike), and when they get low their lifespan significantly shortens. AGM batteries in particular suffer from sulfation. Do it a few times and it's time for a new battery. (Desulfation cycles of tenders seem to help a bit, but I view it more as getting you back on the road for the time being... Plus they take a lot of time.) The same happens in cars BTW if you leave them parked for extended periods. I hadn't used mine in maybe four months and hadn't noticed that a neighbor unplugged the tender. Battery would start the car but was pretty much shot, desulfation over a few weeks helped a bit, but in the end I needed a new battery. (I just thought I'd try the NOCO auto desulfation.) If you think a H-D battery, even a Li one, is expensive, just wait until you see the bill for an Audi...

 

lol

Not when there's a billion choices and vendors on the interweb. Life was a lot simpler 20 years ago. I'm not accustomed to throwing darts and bitching about where they landed. I make good decisions. Once.

If I had your guy's touring models, I'd have been done long ago. Since I have a shoe-horn softail, not so much.

 

Which one would you choose for a touring model?

 

Yup. Since retiring & pandemic, a lot of us don't drive much. Compared to 50 miles a day when I worked. For decades.
I put a top of the line Odyssey AGM in my truck because AGM's weren't supposed to discharge as fast as flooded wet cell when sitting, even on parasitic 'sleep' mode devices like the key fob finder pinger. **** - within a week my charge was down significantly. So I have it on a C-Tek charger/maintainer all the time now.

What good is an AGM over a flooded if you have to leave it on a charger? Why not just a good quality, old time flooded cell? Back when life was normal, none of this was a puzzle. You bought a wet cell every 4-5 years didn't need any chargers, didn't need any research. No interwebs, no discussions, no billion websites.

Twenty some years ago when AGM came out for consumers, guys put them on boats. That was it. Then small powersports vehicles. But they didn't have sleep mode electronic gizmos, either.

Again, frustrated. I'm buying one battery. Not half a dozen to test.

 

I have a 107ci 07 egc TC and the 17 107ci RK M8. They both have the same battery. For some reason the TC has always cranked over faster than the M8.. Starter motors are different..