• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Dead bike- please advise (trying to go riding...bummer)

EricV

EricV

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hi all. 630 with 4k on it, original battery. Rode last week (and every week) and the thing never misses a beat. Well today I get all suited up, have a few hours to ride, click the key on, and nothing (no display, no sounds, no nothing.) Checked the battery- dead as a hammer. What may cause it to suddenly be bad? Not sure where to start. I'm looking at all kind of wires, not finding frays or anything, yet. A little worried as there are no dealers anywhere near here, but too soon to worry about that as it's gotta be something fairly simple- just not experienced w/ electricals. Any input is Hugely appreciated!
 
If it´d been mine ... first thing I´d look at would be the kill switch. I was once caught out on the motorway when the (very small) red wire to the + on the battery came off. But think yours is likely to be a duff fuse.
 
Well, though I probably shouldn't have I jumped it off the car (car not running and properly grounded) - started and ran fine. Ran it around the neighborhood a few times, stopped, turned it off, and while the display/pump activated fine it didn't turn over strong enough to start. So I guess fuses are fine...guessing I'll throw another battery in, but still concerned as to what caused the complete and rather sudden drain.
 
1lunger said:
These battery's can do that. Start you up and quit on the trail.
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That's actually comforting. :) The concern I predictably have is that the bike isn't charging it as it should or that I have a drain somehow - and that of course may be happening. For now I'll keep the voltage meter handy, keep taking reads, and see how it goes. It was the original battery, after all, and like anything that you buy that comes with a battery you never know how long the thing was sitting around, how old it is, etc. (well, I suppose you could by the manufacturers coding but I'm not going to look into it to that degree.) At least I got to ride on what may be the last toasty day of the season here (not to the destination I had in mind, but I'm not picky as long as I get to wail on the thing for a few hours each week!)

Thanks gang- I really appreciate this forum.
 
Keeping a battery tender on the battery will help it last longer. Just remember to unplug when it shows full charge.
 
1lunger said:
Keeping a battery tender on the battery will help it last longer. Just remember to unplug when it shows full charge.
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Thanks fella. I may. As odd as it sounds I've never had a battery bite the dust- my old DRZ, and my old KTM, I had for a few years each, parked outside and dormant during winters, and nev had to touch the batteries. :) This will prob get me on the tender train though.

And so all of that's old news anyway. Met some folks for dinner, came back to the bike, and sure enough antifreeze puddle- appears to be a leaking left radiator. That, to me, is precisely as it should be as the car broke down twice in the past two weeks totaling 1K, so a day like today came into place just as the Gods would have it. :) For the first time since I bought the bike I'm not feeling the Husky love (but readily get that these things happen - there is not one part of a dirt bike that an owner should not deem as disposable at some point.)
 
After reading this I'm wondering whether I should replace my battery as preventative maintenance. My bike is 16 months/10,000 kms old, ridden most weekends and I often ride in remote areas alone, so don't want it suddenly quitting on me out there.

Any ideas how long the stock one should last? Are most repacing it with the much lighter Shorais, if so how is their longevity and performance?
 
I´ve gotta Shorai. And it lasts and lasts. Does things no battery should be asked to do (trying to re-start with an empty tank).
 
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