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Started the Falco today for the first time since whenever it was I last rode it. Got to be a few months. Put some petrol in and it started after about four revolutions.

Sounded a bit sluggish to be honest but without the charger on it would have been flat as a pancake by now.

I've got one, still needed to put my battery on charge for a few hours for the post winter fire up, the solar charger got disconnected when the bike tent took a hammering in the recent winds.
The battery voltage was 11.3 so the solariser had clearly put some charge in over a 4 month lay up

randomsquid wrote:Put some petrol in and it started after about four revolutions.

The French
The Industrial
The People's
The Russian

..... Took quite a few years and much bloodshed then?

fatboy wrote: The battery voltage was 11.3 so the solariser had clearly put some charge in over a 4 month lay up

Mine was 11.5 on the dash which is marginal for starting but I reckon it's got to be better than leaving the battery to fend for itself.

D-Rider wrote:

randomsquid wrote:Put some petrol in and it started after about four revolutions.

The French
The Industrial
The People's
The Russian

..... Took quite a few years and much bloodshed then?

What do you expect from the products of Oxford.

I have a cheap version that does the job perfectly - I used to have to buy a new battery nearly every year, I won't say how long I've had the current one cos that really would be tempting providence!

I used to use a solariser before I moved and got power in the garage, I found that putting 2 in parallel kept the battery perfectly topped up over winter, 1 just didn't quite cut it in the gloom and doom of winter.

Best thing is to ride it once every 2 or 3 weeks for an hour.

wayno wrote:I used to use a solariser before I moved and got power in the garage, I found that putting 2 in parallel kept the battery perfectly topped up over winter, 1 just didn't quite cut it in the gloom and doom of winter.

Genius ! So bloody obvious its too easy to overlook

wayno wrote:I used to use a solariser before I moved and got power in the garage, I found that putting 2 in parallel kept the battery perfectly topped up over winter, 1 just didn't quite cut it in the gloom and doom of winter.

Agree - I use 2 Maplins solar panels (same as Oxford, I'm sure) and they keep a car battery perfectly topped up, even over winter.
















But the car is in the South of France...

I use solar panels to charge my battery too .... 20 big ones on my roof that power lots of my electrical things

Using two in winter sounds like a top tip.

I've been using mine since last spring and through the riding season the voltage on the dash was always the same as when I'd just got back from a run.

After a few months of winter idleness not so much.