Originally Posted by
ARtraveler
I am from the conservative school. If you all remember, I lived 20 years in Alaska. Two dealers in AK at first, then one, then none. Both dealers were in the area where I lived. The dealer I used the whole time I owned Spyders from 2008, on...was only five miles from where I lived.
Alaska being big, and no other dealers for 1000 plus miles...I did not want to experience a battery failure 100 miles or more from nowhere. When a battery does decide to go, it usually dies without warning. Enter Murphy's Law--If something bad can happen, it will.
I changed my batteries out every three years of operation...whether they needed it or not. I never got stuck by a dead or dying battery. We did 150K miles on our Spyders on Alaska roads with NO issues.
Now that I have moved to warmer climes, and can ride all year long, I am going to continue the three year replacement process, whether I need to or not. Conservative, conservative, conservative.
$150 for a battery, beats a $500 tow.