GS500F forever gone

I need to change the banner image of this blog.  My GS500F is no more in my hands.  A young rider will be taking it on the road this summer.  I sold it.  I've had really good fun with it and now, someone else will.  Does this mean I will stop riding???

MotoBatt Batteries

I've always had some kind of problem with batteries in winter time.  When I first got my motorcycle, my battery died through the winter after 6 months or so.  I decided to get a new battery and purchased one from Amazon.ca.  It was a MotoBatt branded AGM battery.  I checked later it was made in China but heck, what isn't made in China these days.  So, I was using this MotoBatt battery throughout the year until this past Tuesday.

Leading up to this past Tuesday, I started having problems starting my bike in January.  The cold wasn't that cold with only a couple of days of -15C when I rode out there.  You'd think the battery would be effected by the weather, but not to the point that my bike wouldn't start.  Well, it got bad pretty badly.  I couldn't start my bike many times out in the cold for a couple of months.  That sucked big time.  I've had to use a portable battery to start up my bike or do push starts.  Either way, it's a pain, in the cold.

A couple of weeks ago, I had my battery and stator checked out.  The stator was fine.  The battery was not.  It wasn't hold a charge in the cold.  The good thing is the battery comes with a two-year warranty, so I then contacted MotoBatt in the U.S.  They referred me to a distributor in Canada.  I think there is only one distributor, and there is a dealer in Newmarket, a good 60km from my place.  The dealer had accepted to honor the warranty.  I rode my bike up, getting there at 8am.  It was chilly and I was underdressed but it was a fun ride nonetheless.  I got a brand new battery and installed it.  My bike roared to a start and I made my way back down.

The point of my story is that I had a good experience with MotoBatt and their warranty policy.  Thumbs up.