Misery loves company! :)
*Paul LeBoutillier * *www.hondanighthawks.net <http://www.hondanighthawks.net/>* Honda Nighthawk Lovers Email group <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/nighthawk_lovers> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 5:24 PM, James O'Gorman <aspor...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yup, I've done this a few times. The worst [most embarrassing] was two > years ago. I just took the bike out of storage and got it all fired up. I > took it to work on Monday. I got out of work and walked up to the bike only > to realize that not only A) the Key was left in the bike ALL DAY but also > B) it was left in Accessory ALL DAY. I think I was too excited about having > it out again and I forgot what I was doing... :( > > So I had to get a jump. I let it warm up for a bit at high enough RPMs so > that it was charging, then started home. I made it a few blocks, but it > died when shifting to Neutral at a stop when I wasn't fast enough to hit N > and then get back on the throttle. :( It wouldn't start from popping the > clutch since it was still too dead, so I needed a SECOND jump start :( > > ... and another time, with another bike... and car... I almost had a > double whammy... > > My wife and I have a NHX110 aka Honda Elite 110 scooter. I was sent to > California for what was supposed to be 6 months on assignment for work. It > ended up being 1 year. The Scooter was left in the garage back in > Wisconsin. I had my car in California with me. It had the Optima Yellow Top > AGM battery. I didn't end up driving my car for about 1-2 months before I > left, so I needed to jump it and drive it around for a day or two before > leaving to drive back to Wisconsin. Somewhere about Utah, I noticed a > strange sulfur smell, but didn't think too much of it. Five days later, I > rolled into the parking lot at my apartment. After walking around the > apartment for a few minutes, I went to re-park my car. The battery was > shot. I somehow managed a 2,000 mile trip only to have the battery die > right after delivering me home. *Phew* BUT I was still stranded by myself > without a car (wife was still out of town); and I didn't have a charger. > Luckily, I had the Scooter in the garage. I went over to the scooter, but > was saddened by the fact that the key was in the ignition, and it was set > to "Seat" which is how to pop open the storage under the seat. It had sat > for an entire year off the charger like this... I crossed my fingers, > twisted the key over to Start and pressed the Crank button. It fired to > life! Wahoo!! > > So then I was able to go and purchase a charger. I let it charge > overnight, but the battery was still dead. So I scooted off and got a new > battery. > > Moral of this story - if you have a Yellow top or other similar battery, > don't charge them too quickly. Charge them the way the manual states - slow > and steady. Otherwise they will go bad and waste your $160 investment. > > Oh fun! > > - James > > On Mar 30, 2015, at 13:30 PM, mark.wf...@gmail.com wrote: > > OK, so you have not done that at least half a dozen times yet? > How is that possible, you must not drive it to work several times a week > then. > That's why it's called the* "Kill my battery"* position. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nighthawk_lovers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to nighthawk_lovers@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nighthawk_lovers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to nighthawk_lovers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
