This kinda pisses me off about the Rocket 3 (and its the only thing right now) the parking light can be left on and the key removed by turning the ignition off all the way. That key position is just wrong to put the parking light switch at. As a rider you expect to be able to turn the ignition key off, turn your handle left, push the key and turn all they way and remove it to lock the bike. Guess what it does - leaves the parking light on.
This one afternoon, while showing my Rocket to a friend on a particulary sunny day - I did just that and completely killed my battery. I was riding to Death Valley the next day and it was past 7 PM when I discovered the problem. So I get my hands on a battery tender and 6 hours later - zip. The battery is completely dead.
So I did the unthinkable, the reprehinsible, the ugly, the most dastardly thing you could think of - I bought a harley battery from Peninsula Harley (about 0.5 miles away compared to Hattar Motors in San Rafael - about 45 miles away) and put it into my Rocket.
Somewhere out there is s a dead man spinning in his grave!
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