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Can't even believe after 15 years I'm asking a battery question but here we are. Rode my triumph (2008 t100 bonneville) for about 1.5 hours yesterday. Stop one I got off and went into a store. No issues. Get get on, ride about 35-45 minutes mixed open road and some stop and go on a busy road. Stop again. Bike won't restart. I have no tools so I can't check anything. Sounded like a relay clicking super fast and not dying off with repeated attempts to start.
Tried to pop start it unsuccessfully (with some old guys watching and commenting on how you don't see that any more, laughing at me sweating my balls off in the humidity). Bike gets towed home. I stick it in the garage and forget about it until 9 at night. I turn the key on and pull the choke out just to see what happens, fires up immediately.
I am going to replace the battery since it's old anyways, but my thinking is that the battery wasn't being recharged as I rode around, which is making me think stator or r/r. The rectifier is easy to access but the more I read about it the more confused I get, testing backwards and forwards continuity.
As I said, a new battery is in order since I don't know the history or age of what's in there, but that won't keep me from being stranded if the bike won't restart again. Anyone got any widsdom on this?