{"id":1653,"date":"2012-09-23T16:35:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T20:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2012-10-08T16:38:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T20:38:12","slug":"new-agm-battery-for-f650","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/new-agm-battery-for-f650\/","title":{"rendered":"New AGM Battery for F650"},"content":{"rendered":"

After sitting without running while I did all the suspension and wheel bearing maintenance my battery wouldn’t start the motorcycle when I wanted to do a test ride. It was obviously fading when I tore the motorcycle apart, but figured I’d deal with that when I was done. I checked with a multi-meter and it was reading under 7 so it was toast.<\/p>\n

The current battery was a Deka maintenance free battery that didn’t quite fit in the battery compartment so I wasn’t looking forward to another wrestling match to get a new one installed. \u00a0The guys on the forums had said it took them 30 minutes to install the Deka. It took me 3 hours. Evidently more muscle was needed than I could provide and I didn’t want to go through that again.<\/p>\n

Bad experiences with acid battery<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>There was also no way I would consider going with an acid battery again. When you have to take off all the plastic to check the battery it’s not something you look forward to on a regular basis. And the acid had leaked on my brand new motorcycle (because the dealer didn’t attach the drain tube) and dripped down the side of the engine causing permanent damage. I didn’t want that to ever happen again. And since my motorcycle seems to spend more than it’s fair share of time down on it’s side I thought it imperative to have a sealed battery.<\/p>\n

Scorpion\u00a0YT12CL Battery<\/strong><\/p>\n

After once again reading the forums I found some guys on advrider.com who had tried a Scorpion battery from BatteryStuff.com<\/a>\u00a0and been happy with it so far. It was mentioned the maintenance free batteries don’t last quite as long as a well maintained acid battery, but I’d rather change it than service it regularly.<\/p>\n

The Scorpion is an AGM, cost $63, shipping is free, and I had it 2 days after ordering it. Before placing the order I called and confirmed with them that the battery really does fit in a 2007 F650 GS and they told me it would be a perfect fit.<\/p>\n

Installation<\/strong><\/h3>\n

After the difficult time I’d had with the Deka battery I was pretty excited when it was absolutely painless to put the Scorpion in. It is indeed a perfect fit and the battery posts are located in the exact position needed on the F650. I had it installed in no time and the motorcycle fired right up.<\/p>\n

A friend was shocked I had started the motorcycle without charging the battery so I called\u00a0BatteryStuff.com<\/a>\u00a0again and they confirmed AGM batteries are ready to go out of the box and no charging is needed.<\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see how long the battery lasts, but at $63 with an easy installation it won’t be a heart breaker if it only lasts 2 or 3 years. I love recommending dealers who offer excellent service like Batterystuff.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After sitting without running while I did all the suspension and wheel bearing maintenance my battery wouldn’t start the motorcycle when I wanted to do a test ride. It was obviously fading when I tore the motorcycle apart, but figured I’d deal with that when I was done. I checked with a multi-meter and it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trip_planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1669,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions\/1669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}