I've had my current GS for almost exactly 10 years and not very many miles at all. The latter being down to not being in the best of health for much of the time but I digress...
For most of the time that the GS has sat in the garage and much of that was for two years prior to this summer, it's been connected to my Optimate 4. This year, I actually got round to riding it a bit more, including towing some visitors from California around bits of Scotland. Worried that the battery might not be up to it and could let me down somewhere remote, I fitted the MotoBatt which had been sitting neglected on a shelf in the garage for about two years since I bought it and fitted that to the bike.
Fast forward to now and the GS hasn't been ridden since July. The Optimate hadn't been connected but having done so this week, it's showing a healthy battery.
Meanwhile, for a variety of reasons, I recently bought an Optimate 7 for the very fair price of £120 on eBay. During a bit of garage sorting this afternoon, I came across the original 10 year old GS battery and thought I'd see what would happen if I connected it to the new Optimate. Optimate make some grand claims that the 7 will revive dead batteries.
The first surprise was that the battery indicated a state of 50% charge right away and within 30 mins was showing fully charged. It'll be interesting to see if it's able to hold that charge.
I've attached a pic from the corner of my current shit-heap of a garage to add some visual interest to an otherwise mundane post....
For most of the time that the GS has sat in the garage and much of that was for two years prior to this summer, it's been connected to my Optimate 4. This year, I actually got round to riding it a bit more, including towing some visitors from California around bits of Scotland. Worried that the battery might not be up to it and could let me down somewhere remote, I fitted the MotoBatt which had been sitting neglected on a shelf in the garage for about two years since I bought it and fitted that to the bike.
Fast forward to now and the GS hasn't been ridden since July. The Optimate hadn't been connected but having done so this week, it's showing a healthy battery.
Meanwhile, for a variety of reasons, I recently bought an Optimate 7 for the very fair price of £120 on eBay. During a bit of garage sorting this afternoon, I came across the original 10 year old GS battery and thought I'd see what would happen if I connected it to the new Optimate. Optimate make some grand claims that the 7 will revive dead batteries.
The first surprise was that the battery indicated a state of 50% charge right away and within 30 mins was showing fully charged. It'll be interesting to see if it's able to hold that charge.
I've attached a pic from the corner of my current shit-heap of a garage to add some visual interest to an otherwise mundane post....
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The obvious thing to me was it was all shoite anyway as the tracker has been put in the same place on every bike and with a battery powered impact gun etc takes at the most a couple of minutes to get at and throw over the hedge so to any self respecting bike thief it is no deterrent at all. Saves you 3/5 of bu88er all on your insurance premium so that says a lot as they think it's useless too
