Motor Bike Battery Time Again

Looking After Your Motor Bike Battery

It is very important look after all batteries, whether it’s your car battery, boat battery, truck battery or indeed you Motor cycle battery.

One of the keys to looming after your motorbike battery is the care you take in winter time, especially if you live in the Northern hemisphere and because of the cold weather your motorbikes are usually stowed away in a shed or garage, until the weather warms up and the bikes are brought out again and checked over for the oncoming riding season.

This is where your battery care would have come in before the winter. I always advise anybody who is storing a lead acid battery over the winter period; this includes garden machinery and lawn mower batteries, to invest in a "smart charger".

When you remove your motor cycle battery for winter storage you should first clean the battery and check the acid levels. The battery can then be stored in a frost proof out building or a garage of some kind. The

Varta Motor Bike Battery

next step that i would recommend would be to buy a low amp smart charger and connect it to your battery, for the winter period.

This will keep the battery topped up with charge and when NOT charging the charger will automatically switch off, until the battery requires further charge. This will continue throughout the winter and will leave with a fully charged ready to go battery. It would not harm for you to check the battery every now and then, to check the acid level, if the battery is a screw top, but if the battery is sealed then there would be nothing to check.

If there was any problem with the battery NOT charging then the smart charger would switch off.

Not just your Motor Bike battery?

As I have wrote many times this procedure does not only apply to motor cycle batteries, but to any machine that uses a lead acid battery and is not used in the winter months, as I have said things like garden machinery and lawn mowers. This would also include quad batteries and Jet Ski batteries. All these machines should have their batteries removed and stored in a frost free building over the winter months.

The same applies to charging the batteries. The purchase of a smart charger with low amps and for a 12v battery would be a good investment and prolong the life of your battery. You would also be better advised to invest in a quality brand of battery for your motor bike such as a Varta battery or a Numax battery. Both these brands are excellent brands and are made by Johnson Controls, one of the World’s leading battery

Ring Automotive Smart Charger

makers. You know the saying that “only a rich man can afford to buy a cheap product”. The quality of the battery combined with a regime of cleaning and charging your battery will ensure a long life and you will not have to keep buying a cheap battery every time you get your bike or lawnmower out after the winter period.

Eric Roberts

Hi I would like to introduce myself. I have worked in the Garage and tyre and Battery business now for 40 years. I have worked for a couple for national tyre companies in my younger days, before starting my first business. I now own a garage and MOT testing centre, here in the UK called Pellon Tyre and Auto-centre, and I am a keen blogger about anything to do with cars and their related products that will help my business. We are members of Point-S and Motor-Codes and are also a Unipart Car Care Centre and of course Tyre-safe.