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[110tHunDer]

That (giving it to parts guy) or returning it to a local battery vendor (I returned a couple to a local vendor and he actually gave me some $$ for returning/recycling them).

 
Ride Safe,
Fired00d
 

No parts guy with Amazon, but do have an Interstate battery distributor close by.  Probably give them a try.

[Twolanerider]

No parts guy with Amazon, but do have an Interstate battery distributor close by.  Probably give them a try.

The local O'Reilly Auto Parts stores give a $10 store card for return of any automotive battery.  Last fall got $5 for a couple of lawn and garden and bike batteries. 

[iski]

Oh yeah, the 3 year olds that come out then live in the riding lawn mower for a couple years (if I'm lucky) and in a couple of other gadgets around the yard.

That's a good idea.  Yuasa was the battery in my Japanese bikes, excellent service but too many years ago to make a reasonable comparison. Will give this one a try in a few years if I can remember where the hell the link to it is by then.

[110tHunDer]

Got mine today.  Not real happy with the half-assed packaging job someone did where they just threw a few pieces of paper in to to try to keep a 20+ pound battery from rattling around so hopefully, no damage was done.

[Twolanerider]

Got mine today.  Not real happy with the half-assed packaging job someone did where they just threw a few pieces of paper in to to try to keep a 20+ pound battery from rattling around so hopefully, no damage was done.

Mine arrived yesterday.  I must have got lucky and got a different after school employee.  Mine was pretty normally box-in-a-box packaged.  Don't have it in the bike yet though.

[J.D.]

Wow, every 3 years?

My last AGM battery from the MoCo went 8 years.  By that I mean at the end of 7 years it passed a load test with flying colors and at 8 was still working fine, but I thought I'd be proactive and change it anyway.  That's about when I do the car batteries also.

Has anyone tried one of these ultra lightweight lithium ion batteries from Deltran?  Looks cool in principle but the photos of them melting down scare me.

[Aussie]

I am getting 8 years out of a Battery, always on a battery tender to keep it topped up.

[Twolanerider]

Wow, every 3 years?

Yeah, but only on the bike.  After that I move the couple of bike batteries "downhill" to the riding lawnmower and use the 2nd one (two bikes) to swap around from the garden sprayer and a couple other gadgets that need portable 12 volt batteries.  Things that won't leave me stranded if they crap out in the yard.

I likely get five or six years use out of them.  I just don't use them in the bikes after three.  Everyone has their own threshold of annoyance.  For me that threshold gets reached real fast if I've got to push or two a bike for something as simple as an AGM battery that wakes up one morning and decide it doesn't want to stay awake all day long.