Originally Posted by jamesroadking

Your trike looks pretty new, so when it didn't start the first time you didn't think that maybe you should put a volt meter across your battery to check it's voltage before ordering a new battery? My original battery on my 2010 Limited that I bought a late 2009 lasted to the summer of 2015. When you suspect a battery, disconnect it, check water if applicable, clean, and measure voltage, if lower than 12 volts put on a charger over night, should come up to something like 13.3 or so. Let the battery sit and monitor it's voltage, it should hold that fresh charge staying at 12.2-12.5, you can also take it up to any auto parts store and they'll put a load tester on it for free after you charged it.
When my FOB battery starts getting week, the alarms starts chirping if I just move the bike. I've never had to use the code to bypass the alarm, it's easier to just change the battery in the FOB. Keep spare batteries in the tour pack.

Originally Posted by Nomadmax

I didn't know that the security system wouldn't become active if you mounted and sat down on one of the Tri-Glide models without the FOB. Thanks.

A trick I used to use for storing batteries in spare FOBs was to turn them around and install with the polarity reversed. On long trips I had a spare FOB hidden on the bike like that. Had I ever lost the one on my key chain that dangles in the wind; all I needed to do was retrieve the spare FOB, open it up and flip the battery. The batteries last quite a while in the reverse mode.

That said, I really don't like security of any kind and I removed it from both my bikes.

Originally Posted by Nomadmax

You weren't tipped off when the lights flashed that no FOB was present when you righted the bike off the stand?

Originally Posted by harleygeezer

He owns a trike...

Originally Posted by screwball

Some spare battery horror stories. Loosing your keys while walking around. Spare batteries are useless without a fob. Bad guys steal your bike and while looking around, Low and behold, a fob. My problem is that the hook where I keep my keys is 4' through a door to my Harley in the garage. It is close enough to start the trike, but when i go to leave the restaurant I'm now 30 miles away.

I never understood why it was such a huge pain in the *** to put in a 5 digit code so you wouldn't get stranded. You know that the battery in your 'spare' will go dead just about the time your primary goes. BUT to each his own.