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Title: Anyone else in the MidWest feeling sorry for their batteries this year?
Post by: Stig / Major Tom on February 12, 2021, 03:56:50 PM

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Snowing, sleeting, a little ice, cloudy, winds, more snow, temps barely getting out of the teens.
Feels like a back alley in Stalingrad out in my garage.

I think about that miserable little 6Ah battery in the Piaggio. Poor thing.
Battery box is so tight and the wires so stiff I don't want to remove the battery to keep it warm....
So, hooked the pig-tail to the Tender.

What a winter ! - nearly a month since conditions permitted a scooter ride.

I do put my slippers on & warm the wife's ride up - before sending her off to work at the hospital.  :)

(https://i.postimg.cc/HxDDf2sr/P1150074.jpg)

It's the least I can do for the team....
Stig

Title: Re: Anyone else in the MidWest feeling sorry for their batteries this year?
Post by: CROSSBOLT on February 12, 2021, 04:23:51 PM

Pictures are the same hue as the ones taken by the guy who rode a 50-year old Honda 90 up Norway to the Arctic Circle and back....in the winter!

Title: Re: Anyone else in the MidWest feeling sorry for their batteries this year?
Post by: Stig / Major Tom on February 12, 2021, 09:03:20 PM

Quote from: CROSSBOLT on February 12, 2021, 04:23:51 PM

Pictures are the same hue as the ones taken by the guy who rode a 50-year old Honda 90 up Norway to the Arctic Circle and back....in the winter!

Hondas are great bikes!
Stig

Title: Re: Anyone else in the MidWest feeling sorry for their batteries this year?
Post by: wymple on February 16, 2021, 07:36:37 AM

I Have 5 batteries to maintain. I just move the tender around every few days to keep them topped off.

Title: Re: Anyone else in the MidWest feeling sorry for their batteries this year?
Post by: Neil955i on February 16, 2021, 08:19:55 AM

Sounds like batteries in Texas are suffering currently? (Ha! See what I did there?)


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Title: Re: Anyone else in the MidWest feeling sorry for their batteries this year?
Post by: Viper254 on February 16, 2021, 10:23:18 AM

When you say MidWest you mean West Midlands, right? :)

Title: Re: Anyone else in the MidWest feeling sorry for their batteries this year?
Post by: Stig / Major Tom on February 16, 2021, 01:04:59 PM

Quote from: Neil955i on February 16, 2021, 08:19:55 AM

Sounds like batteries in Texas are suffering currently? (Ha! See what I did there?)


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Teenager had to explain this to me.
HaHa.
Stig

Title: Re: Anyone else in the MidWest feeling sorry for their batteries this year?
Post by: Stig / Major Tom on February 16, 2021, 01:18:36 PM

Quote from: Viper254 on February 16, 2021, 10:23:18 AM

When you say MidWest you mean West Midlands, right? :)

Info supplied here for those who don't adjust their own valves:

(Viper- you know if you'd push your island into a nice rectangle, instead of dealing with this .......you could have straighter roads, fewer accidents, lower insurance rates -  - happier people! Just an idea....
(https://i.postimg.cc/RFNWP1g3/Capture3.jpg)

Stig

Title: Re: Anyone else in the MidWest feeling sorry for their batteries this year?
Post by: Iahawk on February 16, 2021, 02:23:16 PM

and that's another reason I love this forum...world geography lessons!

Title: Re: Anyone else in the MidWest feeling sorry for their batteries this year?
Post by: Neil955i on February 16, 2021, 04:15:46 PM

It forgets to mention Stig that Birmingham is the UK's second city. Get back in your box Mancs
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