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Originally Posted by Trailbikeryder
My experience for a long life of a battery is not to let get down to a point where it would need charging. So if you're not going to ride over winter, take the battery out and put it on a good trickle charger. I always leave it on the trickle charger for three days and then leave it off for 5-7 days. This way I simulate "summer time" when I ride more often. My 2nd battery on my Kawasaki Vulcan 800 lasted me 14 years. Thats probably a world record though :-) The first one "only" lasted 5 years. Whats not good for a battery also, is below freezing cold.
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It's the other way around here, I ride in the winter and go back to air-conditioned comfort in the summer due to our extreme heat