09-29-2019, 05:26 PM
(09-29-2019, 01:45 PM)LongRanger_imp Wrote: Warman, despite the fact your bike sat unused in the crate (or on the showroom floor) for all those years, if it were my bike, I'd replace the brake and clutch fluid.
Assuming the battery was fully disconnected when the bike sat, does the collective here still think it's a "five year old" battery?
5 years-old.
The moment the battery is assembled or "made up", the clock starts.
The battery is a reduction-oxidation process. If left unchecked (e.g. no external charge applied), then the reaction will eventually complete and permanently depleting and battery anode/cathode grids.
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Maybe I am wrong, but I think AGM batteries are already "made up". The old wet-cell based batteries I believe were not "made up" until the m/c was uncrated/assembled by the dealer who would then add the acid solution to the battery assembly.