Snowbum & Batteries

[montmil]

With many members placing their motorcycles into winter hibernation, those still riding and folks considering buying new batteries; Snowbum has updated his section on batteries.

Weathered in or not, good info that did help me with the new battery in my R100S. Just did an easy 6-month maintenance check and I'm grateful for da 'Bums help when I first installed the unit.

http://bmwmotorcycletech.info/newbattery.htm

[Bob_Roller]

With the cost of generic AGM batteries these days, I wouldn't even consider a flooded type battery, unless the battery 'died' on the road on a trip .

The tip of leaving the battery in the cold on a float charger is a good one, cold is a batteries best friend, as long as it's not discharged .

The battery available from Staab battery, the UB12220, is less than half the cost of an Odyssey battery and has about the same service life .

http://www.staabbattery.com/product/UB12220-V.html

This company is local for me Gruber Power Services, ordered thee batteries two weeks ago, same size as the PC680 battery .

They gave me the wholesale price, no sales tax and I picked them up myself, got them for $23 each .

http://www.gruberpower.com/12-volt-18-amp-hour-ah-battery

All of my bikes have this battery, two in the oilhead .

I use inexpensive batteries, due to the short service life of batteries here in the desert, average life of a motorcycle battery is around 2-3 years here, regardless of what type or brand you have .