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Weather turns cold and guess what, my battery has decided to die
Almost got stuck last Friday night because I had to stop twice on the way home to fill up and then vote, I'd been using the heated grips too instead of putting my winter gloves on. Outside the polling station it was *chug*chug*chug* oh f**k... didn't help that the heated grips came on with the key because I'd forgotten to turn the switch off... after pulling out the fuses for the lights (no light switch on this bike :rolleyes: ) and waiting about 15 minutes it finally started. I'd even given it a trickle charge a couple of nights earlier because it seemed a bit low, but guess what, my charger decided to die at the worst possible time, too :rolleyes:
Gave it a few hours on the car charger yesterday which should have been enough to get it through today, and it was, but not being sure if you'll be stuck in an underground car park with a flat battery isn't nice
Looking around Halfords is surprisingly the cheapest, I'd already arranged a day off for tomorrow so I'll head over there, they have a decent price on 4 litres of oil too so I reserved that online as well.
Only checked now but the battery is 5 years old, if you'd asked me on Friday night I'd have said at most three.
I've always recommended the cheap €10 Lidl chargers and when they work they're great, but I've now had two of them die on me without warning in the last two years, when they have the €20 in next I'll be getting one. The car charger I have is too powerful to leave connected to the bike overnight.Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.
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Hotblack Desiato wrote: »Weather turns cold and guess what, my battery has decided to die
Almost got stuck last Friday night because I had to stop twice on the way home to fill up and then vote, I'd been using the heated grips too instead of putting my winter gloves on. Outside the polling station it was *chug*chug*chug* oh f**k... didn't help that the heated grips came on with the key because I'd forgotten to turn the switch off... after pulling out the fuses for the lights (no light switch on this bike :rolleyes: ) and waiting about 15 minutes it finally started. I'd even given it a trickle charge a couple of nights earlier because it seemed a bit low, but guess what, my charger decided to die at the worst possible time, too :rolleyes:
Gave it a few hours on the car charger yesterday which should have been enough to get it through today, and it was, but not being sure if you'll be stuck in an underground car park with a flat battery isn't nice
Looking around Halfords is surprisingly the cheapest, I'd already arranged a day off for tomorrow so I'll head over there, they have a decent price on 4 litres of oil too so I reserved that online as well.
Only checked now but the battery is 5 years old, if you'd asked me on Friday night I'd have said at most three.
I've always recommended the cheap €10 Lidl chargers and when they work they're great, but I've now had two of them die on me without warning in the last two years, when they have the €20 in next I'll be getting one. The car charger I have is too powerful to leave connected to the bike overnight.
Get a relay for the heated grips don't take then directly off the battery.0 -
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I didn't find Halfords have much stuff dedicated solely to bikes, the little area they have is fairly bare, any idea what the batteries are like with them? Some of the Lidl stuff isn't bad in my experience.Hotblack Desiato wrote: »Weather turns cold and guess what, my battery has decided to die
Almost got stuck last Friday night because I had to stop twice on the way home to fill up and then vote, I'd been using the heated grips too instead of putting my winter gloves on. Outside the polling station it was *chug*chug*chug* oh f**k... didn't help that the heated grips came on with the key because I'd forgotten to turn the switch off... after pulling out the fuses for the lights (no light switch on this bike :rolleyes: ) and waiting about 15 minutes it finally started. I'd even given it a trickle charge a couple of nights earlier because it seemed a bit low, but guess what, my charger decided to die at the worst possible time, too :rolleyes:
Gave it a few hours on the car charger yesterday which should have been enough to get it through today, and it was, but not being sure if you'll be stuck in an underground car park with a flat battery isn't nice
Looking around Halfords is surprisingly the cheapest, I'd already arranged a day off for tomorrow so I'll head over there, they have a decent price on 4 litres of oil too so I reserved that online as well.
Only checked now but the battery is 5 years old, if you'd asked me on Friday night I'd have said at most three.
I've always recommended the cheap €10 Lidl chargers and when they work they're great, but I've now had two of them die on me without warning in the last two years, when they have the €20 in next I'll be getting one. The car charger I have is too powerful to leave connected to the bike overnight.0 -
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Change the oil and filter.
Combustion creates acids and moisture in the oil, if it's going to be sitting around unused for months best to have fresh oil sitting there. Some people change it on taking the bike out of storage too.
UK has, or is going to, go to 10% ethanol in all petrol and this causes more problems in storage. Fill the tank right up (to exclude moist air) and put in a fuel stabiliser additive.
Or, just ride it, it's not as if we're in Finland.Use copper grease on the spark plug threads when doing them.
Check what the workshop manual says. If it gives a torque figure for dry threads and you apply that torque figure to greased threads, you will over-tighten the plug and risk damaging the head.
Manual for my bike says to go in dry, as it were
Never heard of anyone having difficulty removing a plug that wasn't well over-torqued when it was put in.Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.
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Hotblack Desiato wrote: »I got a Yuasa battery for €74 and 4 litres of Castrol Power 1 Racing fully synth for €48. Liffey Valley, reserved online. Battery comes filled and charged but I gave it a bit of a top up anyway. Sticker on it says it was filled in August 2018
I reserved the semi synth Power 1 by mistake, look nearly identical, they let me swap it on paying the difference ... €2.60!?!!?!
That's not bad at all, the price of the battery, use Castrol myself on the car.
Is there a specific type of oil for bikes? Have no idea what i need for the DL, i'm looking around a few sites at the moment for bits to buy, i'll change out the pads as well after a few youtube lessons, otherwise i'll end up spending a fortune on workshop labour. I can change everything bar an engine and gearbox on a car, time i started learning ho to do it on a bike where possible.
Forgive me for asking, but what kind of bike have you
The reason i ask is so i can understand battery prices, i was charged €80 for one supplied and fitted recently from a guy for my 50cc scooter.
Sure €2.60 is only pocket change, you wouldn't even notice it missing.
Would you be the kind of guy who sticks to Halfords where possible for bits or would you go to the likes of XL Moto?0 -
Yeah most of the NGK plugs are pre-treated.Hotblack Desiato wrote: »Combustion creates acids and moisture in the oil, if it's going to be sitting around unused for months best to have fresh oil sitting there. Some people change it on taking the bike out of storage too.
UK has, or is going to, go to 10% ethanol in all petrol and this causes more problems in storage. Fill the tank right up (to exclude moist air) and put in a fuel stabiliser additive.
Or, just ride it, it's not as if we're in Finland.
Check what the workshop manual says. If it gives a torque figure for dry threads and you apply that torque figure to greased threads, you will over-tighten the plug and risk damaging the head.
Manual for my bike says to go in dry, as it were
Never heard of anyone having difficulty removing a plug that wasn't well over-torqued when it was put in.
I have seen a seized plug though due to water.
I use various greases on different bolts on the bike and would just torque to 1or 2 nm less because of the grease.
A dab of grease won't make a huge difference.
Never an issue so far touch wood.0 -
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Yeah most of the NGK plugs are pre-treated.
I have seen a seized plug though due to water.
I use various greases on different bolts on the bike and would just torque to 1or 2 nm less because of the grease.
A dab of grease won't make a huge difference.
Never an issue so far touch wood.
What i am seeing in the video's so far is copper grease on the plugs like you say blade1 and also being told put them on the pads, just like you would for a car?
If my oil cooler was fcuked from corrosion i can expect the front plug as you mentioned to be problematic possibly.
Jasus lads ye are a world of knowledge, thank you.
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Addisyn Screeching Sickbed wrote: »Is there a specific type of oil for bikes? Have no idea what i need for the DL
Yes! Car oil can cause clutch slip on bikes, because most bikes have a wet clutch which sits in oil, and a lot of car oils have additives to reduce friction as much as possible to save a bit of energy, that's a problem for a wet clutch where you want plenty of friction
Also (like an old Mini) the gearbox shares the engine oil, and usually manual gearboxes run in quite thick oil, too thick for an engine but it stands up better to the shearing loads of the gear teeth. On a bike, the engine oil has to be able to cope with running through the gearbox, and this tends to break down the oil faster (it loses viscosity.) Much less of a problem with fully synthetic oils I've heard, but still. Most people would change their oil every 4-6000 miles or so.
I'd imagine that engine was designed with fully synth bike oil in mind, it'd probably be fine on a good semi-synth provided you didn't push your luck on changing it regularly.i'll change out the pads as well after a few youtube lessons
Be careful, easy to shear off a pad pin or something by overtightening, but can't be too loose either...Forgive me for asking, but what kind of bike have you The reason i ask is so i can understand battery prices, i was charged €80 for one supplied and fitted recently from a guy for my 50cc scooter.
Triumph Sprint ST but it's a 12Ah battery which would be typical of a large range of bikes. €80 is a lot, presuming that the battery is easy to get at.Sure €2.60 is only pocket change, you wouldn't even notice it missing.
It makes the fully synth pretty good value, and the semi-synth not good!Would you be the kind of guy who sticks to Halfords where possible for bits or would you go to the likes of XL Moto?
I'd rarely go to them at all, it's just because it was handy for me to get to yesterday that I looked them up. I've had good value in the past ordering from motorcycleshop.ie but I couldn't wait around for delivery of the battery.Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.
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