Lithium battery question

[Big Dog]

So I’m on my third battery. The first two died at around two years. So the next one is lithium. Luckily never left me stranded. The bike has been parked for 8 months and I’m getting ready to put it back on the road. I tried starting it the other day and it fired right up. My question is should I put the lithium battery charger on it to bring it up to full charge or just get out and run the piss out of it for a couple hundred miles?

Any feedback would be appreciated.

David

[the bartender]

stators/alternators are designed for maintaining a battery, not charging them. It's always more advisable to charge a battery with a charger.

[Antares]

Originally Posted by the bartender

stators/alternators are designed for maintaining a battery, not charging them. It's always more advisable to charge a battery with a charger.

That's not entirely accurate, a stator and alternator will fully charge up a battery that's simply low on charge, but often there is a reason they are low on charge and in that case all they can do is maintain them. With a lithium battery it's like a phone, as long as it's got juice, it'll keep working and the bike will charge it to 100%, if you run out of juice though, that's when the uh-oh hits.

[Winger]

With 6 bikes on the go,all have a lithium battery including the XR there’s always a bike that’s standing for a time so periodically put all of them on a charger and keep a record of the date it was done,the oldest one is over 6 years now and still going well.