I picked up my bike from the mechanic yesterday. It had been in for about 6 weeks now so it’s been a long time since I was last out on the road! The main jobs that needed to be done were that the front suspension forks needed to be rebuilt (the seals were leaking oil) …
So with the rewiring now complete, it was time to get a new 6 volt battery for the bike. The only problem was that the shop that the mechanic had bought such batteries from in the past had now stopped stocking 6 volt models. A search of lots of battery shops across the revealed the same story in each …