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Snowing, sleeting, a little ice, cloudy, winds, more snow, temps barely getting out of the teens.
Feels like a back alley in Stalingrad out in my garage.

I think about that miserable little 6Ah battery in the Piaggio. Poor thing.
Battery box is so tight and the wires so stiff I don't want to remove the battery to keep it warm....
So, hooked the pig-tail to the Tender.

What a winter ! - nearly a month since conditions permitted a scooter ride.

I do put my slippers on & warm the wife's ride up - before sending her off to work at the hospital.  :)



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Re: Anyone else in the MidWest feeling sorry for their batteries this year?
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2021, 04:23:51 PM »
Pictures are the same hue as the ones taken by the guy who rode a 50-year old Honda 90 up Norway to the Arctic Circle and back....in the winter!
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Re: Anyone else in the MidWest feeling sorry for their batteries this year?
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2021, 09:03:20 PM »
Pictures are the same hue as the ones taken by the guy who rode a 50-year old Honda 90 up Norway to the Arctic Circle and back....in the winter!
Hondas are great bikes!
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Re: Anyone else in the MidWest feeling sorry for their batteries this year?
« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2021, 07:36:37 AM »
I Have 5 batteries to maintain. I just move the tender around every few days to keep them topped off.

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Re: Anyone else in the MidWest feeling sorry for their batteries this year?
« Reply #4 on: February 16, 2021, 08:19:55 AM »
Sounds like batteries in Texas are suffering currently? (Ha! See what I did there?)


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Re: Anyone else in the MidWest feeling sorry for their batteries this year?
« Reply #5 on: February 16, 2021, 10:23:18 AM »
When you say MidWest you mean West Midlands, right? :)
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Re: Anyone else in the MidWest feeling sorry for their batteries this year?
« Reply #6 on: February 16, 2021, 01:04:59 PM »
Sounds like batteries in Texas are suffering currently? (Ha! See what I did there?)


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Re: Anyone else in the MidWest feeling sorry for their batteries this year?
« Reply #7 on: February 16, 2021, 01:18:36 PM »
When you say MidWest you mean West Midlands, right? :)
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Re: Anyone else in the MidWest feeling sorry for their batteries this year?
« Reply #8 on: February 16, 2021, 02:23:16 PM »
and that's another reason I love this forum...world geography lessons!
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Re: Anyone else in the MidWest feeling sorry for their batteries this year?
« Reply #9 on: February 16, 2021, 04:15:46 PM »
It forgets to mention Stig that Birmingham is the UK's second city. Get back in your box Mancs
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