[SimonT]

you guys are classics :p

[SimonT]

Motobatt ordered... 

[GlennF]

Doh!  Irrefutable photographic proof that I'm wrong again... 

Actually Enfields were pretty popular with the Legions back in the day.

[Bmadd34]

This is the upgraded battery for Royal Enfield from Yuasa Batteries. Faster cranking and stronger fuel pump. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8jd_ys3DoM

[SimonT]

Battery arrived and installed.... Snug fit indeed.... a mm bigger and it wouldn't fit I reckon!

Thanks Wildbill.

[tooseevee]

This is the upgraded battery for Royal Enfield from Yuasa Batteries. Faster cranking and stronger fuel pump. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8jd_ys3DoM

          Not to be the turd in the swimming pool, but specifically what is so "upgraded" about this Yuasa battery that appears to be the same as all the other Yuasa batteries that I've put in bikes for many many years?

           Just because their ads may say New, Improved, Bigger, Better, Longer, Harder and other superlatives doesn't mean any more than what they put on the cereal boxes.

[Bmadd34]

          Not to be the turd in the swimming pool, but specifically what is so "upgraded" about this Yuasa battery that appears to be the same as all the other Yuasa batteries that I've put in bikes for many many years?

           Just because their ads may say New, Improved, Bigger, Better, Longer, Harder and other superlatives doesn't mean any more than what they put on the cereal boxes.

    The battery is the updated model of the Yuasa battery that some people got in their bikes from the factory. mostly the fact that it is maintenance free.

[tooseevee]

    The battery is the updated model of the Yuasa battery that some people got in their bikes from the factory. mostly the fact that it is maintenance free.

           I'll buy that  Are you saying that RE is STILL putting wet lead/acid bat trees in these new bikes 

            I don't even know what to say about that............it just makes no sense to me as a lot of things do these days.

[Bmadd34]

           I'll buy that  Are you saying that RE is STILL putting wet lead/acid bat trees in these new bikes 

            I don't even know what to say about that............it just makes no sense to me as a lot of things do these days.

    Some do, some don't. Mine had a conventional battery when I purchased it new in April last year. Others have a sealed battery. Luck of the draw, lol.

[mattsz]

Not to be the turd in the swimming pool...

tooseevee... you're more like the candy-bar in the swimming pool...

[tooseevee]

tooseevee... you're more like the candy-bar in the swimming pool...

         I have zero clue how to respond to that.....

        Perhaps we should get back to bat trees??

         Or have we just about beat that subject to death? 

          For what it's worth - I'm really happy with my little Motobatt and I've gone through a lot of Yuasas and AutoZone batteries on the way. (Interstates were really good BTW). I'm glad AGMs came around. They are "good things" in this sea of junk and hype and crap and hyper bole we swim in now.

          You don't have to mortgage the house for a good bat tree these days. The most important thing is to keep it on a tender ALL the time the bike is idle. A weak bat tree causes a multitude of problems for those who use the electric start all the time.

           Are the starter relays any better now? They were absolute crap in the AVLs.

         

[mattsz]

tooseevee... you're more like the candy-bar in the swimming pool...

         I have zero clue how to respond to that.....

Sorry for the serious digression.  I wasn't sure if you'd get the reference... it goes back a ways, but it's pretty low-brow... the film Caddyshack?  A discarded Baby Ruth candy-bar becomes a TLO (turd-like-object) floating in the crowded country-club pool, and panic ensues.  Enter Bill Murry, who casually scoops it up, and... well, it is a candy-bar after all...

One minute and forty-four seconds of childish hilarity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPxiXGr9nFM

[tooseevee]

         I have zero clue how to respond to that.....

Sorry for the serious digression.  I wasn't sure if you'd get the reference... it goes back a ways, but it's pretty low-brow... the film Caddyshack?  A discarded Baby Ruth candy-bar becomes a TLO (turd-like-object) floating in the crowded country-club pool, and panic ensues.  Enter Bill Murry, who casually scoops it up, and... well, it is a candy-bar after all...

            I get it, but I didn't got it  (that particular detail). Loved CS, love BM and everything he's ever done or is doing or will continue doing. I go way back a ways also; back to way before the days when SNL was funny.