The last few times I put my bike on the trickle charger it takes a couple hrs. to go from flashing green to steady green. Battery is 6 months old. I put it on trickle charge every time I am done riding. It used to go to steady green in 5 min. Seems like the battery may be draining when riding now. What would cause this?

 

Are you actually using a trickle charger, or are you using a battery maintainer such as a battery tender?

If you think something is wrong the first thing to do is make sure the battery is fully charged, then have it load tested.

Once you know that you have a fully charged battery in good working order, you can start troubleshooting.

Clean all battery cable connections, install the battery and perform a charging system test.

If your bike does not have a security system on it, there is no reason to keep the battery connected to a maintainer during the riding season.