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Everything must be fine then. Ride on.

I'm not assuming the battery is bad. I know the battery is bad based on the information that has been provided and my 19 years of being paid to repair vehicles as a licensed technician. But hey, fire the parts cannon at the bike and see if you can wound it.

Cibc. The 5 year rate was ~2.45 at the time. The 10 year was a bit higher rate, but we figured it would still be lower than the rate 5 years later. I figured 2025 the rates would be ~3.5%, not the 6+ that it would actually be.

We don't know that the bike is under charging. We know that the battery had a low resting voltage and we don't know why yet. Trying to diagnose a charging system with a bad battery is like a doctor trying to raise a patient's low blood pressure while ignoring a severed artery. Even a short...

2.68% for 6 more years thankfully.

The part where the battery never even came close to showing a proper voltage, even after being on a charger. Bike sits at 11.9v not running and goes to 13.2v running so we know the charging system is working to at least some degree. May not be much, but it's charging and the battery is unable...

This is what went down at dealers I worked for. One was the largest GM dealer in Eastern Canada, so they had it down pat. When a vehicle gets towed in for a repair a work order would be made and the customer would be called for authorization. The time of the call, the person spoken too along...

You Sir, have won at life. I tip my hat to you.

The battery sure doesn't sound fine to me, and hasn't had a proper load test that I've seen posted. Half the CCA for 15 secs without dropping to 10.6v is a load test. Going to need a carbon pile to perform the test. Running the lights and every other electrical accessory is not a load test...

You battery is pooched, but that's only the first part. Your battery could be at its end of life, or something could have killed it. A proper battery load test is applying a load of 50% of the CCA for 15 seconds to a fully charged battery. Voltage must not drop below 10.6v at any point. I...

Somehow when we sold our house in 2020 and moved, we had the foresight to do a 10 year fixed term. We have 6 more years of what is now a unicorn rate.

In first aid training they hammer into you that you are not to transport a casuality that is not a direct family member for any reason. Once you transport you lose good Samaritan protection.

One shop many years ago the scrap bin was out behind bay #3. Unfortunately at the back of bay #3 is where the brake lathe resided. I was turning a set of rotors off of a truck with the old spoke style hubs. With truck rotors, you put them on the lathe and machine them still attached to the...

Inland Iron and Metals? They always had some nice new trucks when I worked at Peterbilt. Most of the career scrap guys I've known all have a property that they sort and hold scrap in. They will collect stuff for weeks and or months and wait for the price to go up. Once the price hits a point...

But traffic laws don't apply to me. I'm on a bicycle.

If I remember correctly the vehicle was a bright yellow Corvette convertible and the officer lost sight for less than 15 seconds at a time. Being 3am there was also no other cars on the road at the time, nevermind yellow Corvettes. The Blue Line is the only thing that saved the kid. I'm...

There was a case ~15 years ago from Barrie. A kid had his dad's Corvette? Or maybe a Cadliac out for a joy ride on Highway 26 at like 3am . A westbound cop got him with moving radar as he was driving east doing 120km/h + somewhere near Minesing. Cop spun around and Finally caught up to the...

4x10 is a very common shift in truck shops. I used to love working that shift. Having a 3 day weekend every weekend was fantastic. The days barely felt longer than a regular 8 hour day. I can't understand why any work place that has the staffing to make it work, wouldn't. There was also the...

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