Battery life.

[virginiajim]

My first OEM battery was replaced at 5 years.  Never let me down.  No issues, but I was going on a trip across country and wanted to make sure that I had a new battery on board.  I've heard of others going longer and others much less.  I've been using the MotoBatt MBTX12U. (on my second one) as I replaced it at 3 years...just because.

[Burchy]

I accidently let my OEM battery go completely flat after 15 months.  it re-charged OK but was never good to hold a decent charge after that.  Replaced with a Motobatt and I was amazed at the cold cranking power compared to the original

[GTRpilot]

You've got me all worried now, just been out and put mine on my Optimate  , Spain on Sunday 

[Wookie]

Fankoo for that Mr Snowy ..wook is now even more enlightened than he was yesterday 😊😊😊😊😊

[pross]

I accidently let my OEM battery go completely flat after 15 months.  it re-charged OK but was never good to hold a decent charge after that.  Replaced with a Motobatt and I was amazed at the cold cranking power compared to the original

Been there got the Tshirt.
I left my bike connected to the optimate charger it kept checking and testing the battery doing its correct job. The problem was I had forgotten and turned the power of to the shed .
Came out to a flat bike and as Burchy stated was never as reliable so a new battery fitted.