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[Helge Buchholz]

i wish everyone of you a very merry christmas. god bless you and your families. may santa bring you what you wished for ride safe bookwood bookwood@... http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/bookwood/klr650.html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[PATRICK J. CASSELS]

Hi All Wishing one and all a very merry Christmas.............Here ( in the Great White North ) I also look at it as one day closer to Spring. This year something special as my Son will be taking over my A19. By Spring he will be 16 and is already enrolled into a Motorcycle Course and has his 2006 Honda CRF up for Sale. I will be hopefully moving up to the 08 KLR or maybe a Vstar but bigger displacement Than my Wife's Vstar 650 Classic ( after all that's the rule) . So yes now is he time of confusion weighing out the benefits and advantages to both. kinds of bikes again. I ride with C.A.V.'s which stand for the Canadian Army Vets Motorcycle Unit http://www.thecav.ca/ . With this group you can ride anything just so long as we just get out and ride when ever we can. So back to my dilemma....What to do........... guess the most important thing to me is that my Son will be getting a Great bike the Chick Magnet Red A19. Again ............All the best of the Season Pat From an Island in the Pacific. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[Greg May]

A couple of interesting facts or perhaps better called opinions, the last time a battery post was going through I was unfortunate enough to have to work on the drive of one of our sideloaders....I really hate these things and only have to work on one of these things when things are very wrong.....anyway I asked the guy that usually takes care of all of out lift truck, forklift & pallet jacks what type of batteries seem to last the best. He said that at the present time we had eveything in service from wet cells to AGM to Optima AGM's and he thought there was some Gel cells still in service. These batteries are abused in every way possible and in his opinion there was no real difference in the their life span but the sealed ones saved a lot of time as of course didn't need to have water added every week. One rather neat thing that they did come out with a couple years ago for the very large batteries they use on electric forklifts is a system that ties all of the cell caps together with a hose system and an indicator, when the indicator shows the batery needs water you connect a water hone to it and it fills all of the cells to the proper level in seconds without removing a cell cover. My '04 has the original battery which is typically way low eveytime I check it but seems to keep coming back, it's replacement will be either a gel cell or an AGM just so I don't have to service it.....Have a Merry Christmas all.....Greg

--- On Wed, 12/24/08, Ron Magen wrote: From: Ron Magen Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Re: battery To: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com Received: Wednesday, December 24, 2008, 3:07 PM I've been following this discussion about batteries. While I've just acquired a 'New-to-Me' KLR -immaculate in my opinion and at a GOOD price-, as a small boat sailor & builder I DO have some valid experience with batteries. So I guess it's O.K. to 'put my oar in'. {Also I've kept alive an 18-year old small pick-up . . .} When I first acquired {about 1990} a 19ft 'trailer-sailer' it was equipped with a 'wet-cell' battery. It was in a case & well strapped down - however it was a bit awkward to reach under a cabinet on the side of the bilge. Obviously so problematic that the previous owner didn't check it frequently enough - about half the cells were bad. I took the 'cheap route' and replaced it with another 'wet cell'. While I did have TWO hygrometers -a large very accurate one and a small 'tester'- using either one was awkward. But the REAL PIA was ADDING WATER. It was also interesting to note how much EVAPORATION was occurring in a compact closed container, in a closed bilge. That first year I watched it very closely. I immediately knew I wanted to change it . . while I monitored it closely I did a bit of research. The BEST battery type was the Sealed Deep Cycle GEL-CELL . . . NOT CHEAP but THE best. Waited for a sale and got one at MY price - took about two years!! What is pertinent here is that the Sealed AGM type came in #2. With the 'demise' of the mechanical 'kick starter' {even as a back-up}, the health of the battery becomes a primary concern - at least in MY opinion. The enclosed area, the heat and the possibility of a 'knock-down' -not to mention the frequent periods of vibration- are probably worse then in my bilge. Supposedly, one of the things the previous owner did was install a 'maintenance- free' battery. As soon as it warms up {gets above freezing !!} I'll be removing it for winter storage {in shop on a 'trickle' charger}. At that time I'll inspect it and make plans accordingly. The 'working life' of a battery in car is considered 5-years {60 months}. With a well-used motorcycle I'd look at 2-1/2 years {30 months} as 'break-even' point and start looking for it's replacement. Regards, Ron Magen Backyard Boatshop 4a. Re: Battery Posted by: "Tumu Rock" guymanbro@yahoo. com guymanbro Date: Tue Dec 23, 2008 12:15 pm ((PST)) wrote: > Is it worth saving 30 dollars? Hell no. I would rather not take my seat > off and side panels off 3 extra times a year! > When $30 is ~50% savings for the same performance duration, the math becomes personal... da Vermonster __________________________________________________________________ Instant Messaging, free SMS, sharing photos and more... Try the new Yahoo! Canada Messenger at http://ca.beta.messenger.yahoo.com/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]