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possible I am answering my own question, but fitting a slightly smaller battery to a bike will just result in a bit less stamina in the battery for cold starts? I have a bike I am looking at selling that has a deceased battery, it should take a YTX9BS which is 15x11x9 in size.

I have a YTZ10S from my wifes Honda which is slightly smaller 150x9x9. Voltage is the same and both are pretty much close in AH output.

I am literally going to sell the bike a s a runner for restoration but need to show it starting and running.
 
AH output and cranking amps is really the key, so it should be OK

As an aside - seen the new Lithium ion batteries for bikes, a fraction of the weight
 
The 10S looks like its slightly higher capacity? I don't see why it would be a problem to use it myself.
 
Cheers, I have the YTZ10S spare as I have fitted a yuasa one to the wifes Honda CBF500.
I wanted here to have a fresh battery for this years commuting and Yuasa had sale on.
 
Mrs Nod's car had a battery that was far too small (in theory!) for it for 18 months or so before a cold winter killed it. Worked fine until the battery died of hypothermia!
 
yeah cold kills wee motorbike batts for sure, we have had an optimate for a while now and rotate our 2x main bikes a week at a time when not I use.

The ZRX400 was left over winter and the battery was probably low when I tucked it up last summer.
cold killed it......sigh, I have tried to deep recover it but its not happening.
 
maybe when its ready I shall put a for sale thread up :-)

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Mr Bump said:
yeah cold kills wee motorbike batts for sure, we have had an optimate for a while now and rotate our 2x main bikes a week at a time when not I use.

The ZRX400 was left over winter and the battery was probably low when I tucked it up last summer.
cold killed it......sigh, I have tried to deep recover it but its not happening.
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Yes it's always difficult over the winter keeping the battery ok
I have fitted optimate leads to the batteries on our bikes with a connecter and just swap the charger round each bike every week or so :)
 
LCPete said:
Yes it's always difficult over the winter keeping the battery ok
I have fitted optimate leads to the batteries on our bikes with a connecter and just swap the charger round each bike every week or so :)
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Thats exactly what we have with the leads just concealed in the side panels.
 
:plusone:

Although the RE lives outside during the winter as a hack, so the battery is kept topped up by regular running. The Triumph is in the garage ATM with the leads hanging out so I can stick the charger on it for a couple of days (or as long as necessary) every so often, when I remember!
 
I leave my caravan battery on trickle charge in the garage all winter
 
Nice bike, it looks a bit like my old GPz 550 which I resprayed back in 1984, and put Mel Lemoto bars and clipons, and a Motad exhaust, plus K&N filters and Aeroquip brake hoses.
Yours looks better though, because you have the Lawson replica look.
 
andy700 said:
Nice bike, it looks a bit like my old GPz 550 which I resprayed back in 1984, and put Mel Lemoto bars and clipons, and a Motad exhaust, plus K&N filters and Aeroquip brake hoses.
Yours looks better though, because you have the Lawson replica look.
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The ZRX400 I think grew out of the GPz for the japan domestic market as the licencing laws favour sub 400cc bikes so a whole range got spawned. you can get baby fireblades 400cc, baby bandits 400cc and the ZRX which as you say emulates the Eddie Lawson rep which from memory was a modded z1000?

anyhoo its a cracking bike and I have owned this one for about 5 years, the exhaust is full titanium and carbon fibre and the whole bike is lovely,

58bhp @ 13,500 revs
 
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