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<blockquote data-quote="jammess" data-source="post: 1392240" data-attributes="member: 89387"><p>When it comes to battery unactivated storage life being a very long time I agree. I bought my '93 R1100RS in 2012 and it had never been started from the time it left the factory in June of '93. The battery was the original wet cell that had never been activated until 2012, 19 years later when I poured in the acid. The battery lasted 5 years which would be normal battery life. Wish the fuel pump would have been in as good condition as was the battery. At the factory a small amount of fuel is put in the tank and the new bike is run up on a dyno for final pre-shipment testing. That fuel had been left in the tank for those 19 long years the result being a frozen fuel pump and a fuel filter you couldn't blow thru. Yup, I bought a brand new '93 R1100RSL in 2012, what a find, and I got it for way less than half the price of a new in '93 cost.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jammess, post: 1392240, member: 89387"] When it comes to battery unactivated storage life being a very long time I agree. I bought my '93 R1100RS in 2012 and it had never been started from the time it left the factory in June of '93. The battery was the original wet cell that had never been activated until 2012, 19 years later when I poured in the acid. The battery lasted 5 years which would be normal battery life. Wish the fuel pump would have been in as good condition as was the battery. At the factory a small amount of fuel is put in the tank and the new bike is run up on a dyno for final pre-shipment testing. That fuel had been left in the tank for those 19 long years the result being a frozen fuel pump and a fuel filter you couldn't blow thru. Yup, I bought a brand new '93 R1100RSL in 2012, what a find, and I got it for way less than half the price of a new in '93 cost. [/QUOTE]
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