External Motorcycle Battery

 

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http://thereifixedit.failblog.org/2010/09/07/white-trash-repairs-battery-sold-separately/

DF

 


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My alternator quit charging as I passed thru Four-Corners so I shut the
lights off and made it to Kayenta where I bought the biggest cage battery I
could find, tied it on the back seat, and rode to the dealer in Flagstaff
via the Grand Canyon.

If you tie a cage battery on the tank of your sport bike and ride it 100
miles or so then take it off and go for a ride you will see what your bike
could have handled like if it was a two-stroke.

 

wrote:

Hey, sometimes there are situations in which the owner has to
improvise, so why was the person who posted that picture being so
sanctimonious?

Maybe the owner couldn't afford to keep replacing rectifier regulators
or can't easily obtain a serviceable alternator stator?

I rode a motorcycle without an alternator to work every day for
months. It only had a magneto ignition system and I had to install an
external battery and charge it up every night.

A guy I know was on a very small fixed income and he couldn't afford
to replace the RR and stator on his GS1100G.

The electrical system was known to be the achilles heel of those
motorcycles.

He just charged his battery up before he went for a ride.

His range was necessarily rather limited...

 




Possible because he'd seen the link posted on another group (UKRM) and felt
left out?


Or maybe he was in need  a new battery that would fit in its proper place,
but wanted to ride to the store to buy it.

Like most Brit bikes in the 60's.

--
Beav

 




It obviously hasn't entered what passes for your brain that the issue
isn't using a spare battery to keep a bike running. It's the fact that
this genius has got 20-30lbs of lead and acid poorly secured to his
bike with what looks like a pair of knackered bungee straps.

Your imagination seems amazingly broad when it comes to citing all the
buddies you ride with, so it should be no stretch for it to see what
will happen the first time the rider hits the brakes in anger.