Winterizing??
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From: Buffalo, NY
Any reason I can't pull the battery? I normally use a tender year round too, which is how I want to keep it. Trouble is, the hanlebar bar is so wide, it may not fit through my living room door. My local Dealer is Mcdermotts Adirondack HD in Fort Ann, NY. They have winter storage available on site, but I don't want to leave my battery. As far as I know, there wouldn't be any power available in their storage unit.
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From: Aurora, CO
I don't think there's any reason why you couldn't. I think people advising against it are just coming from the perspective that it's not necessary to take the effort to do that, but it sounds like you have a personal reason.
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Yeah, I have a shop that'll fit one bike and the other lives in the living room. Figured I'd at least bring the battery inside cause' the FATboy won't fit through either door 🤣 I was more concerned the alarm might kill the ingition by messing with the battery. Go to put it back in the spring and a no start would suck monkey *****.
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If the measuring feature of the Sta-Bil actually measured the dosage accurately, I assure you that I would not have gone to the trouble and expense of finding a 60 ml shot glass. The Sta-Bil bottle looks wonderful (from a marketing point of view) but does not measure accurately during use. You start pouring out your measured amount and the accompanying flood leaves you wondering "What the hell just happened?".
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If the measuring feature of the Sta-Bil actually measured the dosage accurately, I assure you that I would not have gone to the trouble and expense of finding a 60 ml shot glass. The Sta-Bil bottle looks wonderful (from a marketing point of view) but does not measure accurately during use. You start pouring out your measured amount and the accompanying flood leaves you wondering "What the hell just happened?".
fuel additives like this are worthless imho
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Listen to yourself! You do not use the fuel additive and then tell me I am not using the bottle dispenser correctly. That is amazing!
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From: SE Michigan
Here's a video on how to use the bottle. He does a great job of explaining it, but he won't be able to understand it for you.
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+...tqtsP0peiqAo40
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From: Plover, WI
If the measuring feature of the Sta-Bil actually measured the dosage accurately, I assure you that I would not have gone to the trouble and expense of finding a 60 ml shot glass. The Sta-Bil bottle looks wonderful (from a marketing point of view) but does not measure accurately during use. You start pouring out your measured amount and the accompanying flood leaves you wondering "What the hell just happened?".
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From: Colorado
Yep, that video demonstration was skillfully done. But I see no need to develop user skills to accommodate a poor engineering design. I will not study the amount of incline necessary or the speed of delivery of the shot. I will devote no time to hone a trick skill in order to pour a product that I will not use on a constant basis.
The women do not seem to swoon at the demonstration of hard earned pouring skills of a Sta-Bil bottle. If they did it would be different matter.
The women do not seem to swoon at the demonstration of hard earned pouring skills of a Sta-Bil bottle. If they did it would be different matter.
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From: SE Michigan
two wheels down, brother....sorry for the above smartassedness....i got a little bit of troll in my DNA