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Motorcycle batteries to hard labor. Long service life and the increasing number of low-mileage drivers can under the current donors to the bikers too powerful. Nevertheless, should the battery supply to always start the necessary tension.

The GTU Society for Technical Supervision has ten maintenance-free motorcycle batteries in the popular size 12 Volt/12 Ah felt on the tooth and the batteries of the brand banner, Berga, Bosch, Delo, FB, Harley-Davidson , Intact, Saito, Varta and Yuasa a copious test. The exact allocation permitting Japanese code of the battery is YTX14-BS and tells you that the starter battery in a lot of Japanese Bigbikes, but also in K-and R-models of BMW , one way or another triumph in Aprilla and even for different Harleys fits.

Unlike car batteries, eight of the ten tested current donors for the bike are still offered as a “kit”, which should wait for the customer an accompanying acid pack put itself must, then at least 30 minutes for flooded until the precisely measured amount of sulfuric acid the cells. Then the filling openings are permanently sealed. Only the two batteries of Intact and Harley-Davidson are in place with acid filled already, without having to be loaded before the first start.

The clear winner of the GTU tests with the verdict “highly recommended” with the highest score in the overall motorcycle battery of Intact (€ 119.90). Places two to six with the verdict “recommended” show the batteries of Harley-Davidson (€ 178.20), Delo (€ 114.95) Yuasa (114.95), Saito (Best Buy, 56.95 €) and Bosch (94,00 Euro). With “conditionally recommended” assess the current tester donors of FB (€ 89.99), Varta (129.99 euros), Banner (€ 73.20) and Hill (€ 108.70). Tested and evaluated (the points were capacity, cycle stability, cold start, total discharge and the handling of the motorcycle batteries see results table ).

Conclusion of GTU: Despite the large spread of the test sentences, there was no real test for the battery failures. Even the last three finishers are expected in day-to make trouble. Really surprising but, as sovereign, a no-name product “test clearing up the victory and calculated the distance with best battery to” buy “indigenous.