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As some of you would know I've been having on and off luck with my 81 Speciall II; Saturday I put in a new AGM Battery and my bike kicked right over by basically asking her nicely. Went for a nice putt around town, grabbed some dinner and went home. Later that night I went out again and had the bike flat out die on me again, I pushed it over to a parking lot and found the neutral light dim as where the brake lights. Had to push the bike back home, took 2 hours, most of up hill (no snow though)
Long story short I bought a battery charger and hooked it up, 2 amp charge, battery was at 100%, put the charger in my backpack and raced to work on the bike fully charges batter. Just now I pulled the battery to check the voltage with my meter and possibly charge it. Battery reads 12.5V ignition off. This is after a lively half hour commute.
I'm confused, was it possible that Crappy (Canadian) Tire did a shit job when charging my battery? Do I risk it? Since I'm at work I don't have time to slap test/check charging voltages but it looks alright, right?
I just don't want to have to push my bike anymore.
As some of you would know I've been having on and off luck with my 81 Speciall II; Saturday I put in a new AGM Battery and my bike kicked right over by basically asking her nicely. Went for a nice putt around town, grabbed some dinner and went home. Later that night I went out again and had the bike flat out die on me again, I pushed it over to a parking lot and found the neutral light dim as where the brake lights. Had to push the bike back home, took 2 hours, most of up hill (no snow though)
Long story short I bought a battery charger and hooked it up, 2 amp charge, battery was at 100%, put the charger in my backpack and raced to work on the bike fully charges batter. Just now I pulled the battery to check the voltage with my meter and possibly charge it. Battery reads 12.5V ignition off. This is after a lively half hour commute.
I'm confused, was it possible that Crappy (Canadian) Tire did a shit job when charging my battery? Do I risk it? Since I'm at work I don't have time to slap test/check charging voltages but it looks alright, right?
I just don't want to have to push my bike anymore.