California Biker Attorney and Motorcycle Accident Lawyer Norman Gregory Fernandez at the Beach Ride

It has been about 10 days since my granddaughter was born, and since I have last written an article.

Basically I have been so swamped with work, that I have not had the time to write any new articles.

Now that I have been able to come up for a breath of air (kind of) I just wanted to throw an update out to you all to let you know I am still here and thinking about you.

Now I am not going to detail the amount of work I have produced or done since my last article was written, I will just say that it was substantial.

Enough of the boring, let’s talk about motorcycles.

It has been real chilly (California chilly) where I live since winter, except for a few days here and there, although it has been steadily sunny and warming up for the past month.

Last Friday night, a few of my bros came over for a bite to eat. I tried to start my motorcycle, but it would not fire up. As a matter of fact, when I hit the starter is was completely dead.

I just installed a new battery in this thing last year, so I was kind of surprised.

I hooked up my Battery Tender (trickle charger) and at first the red light was flashing on the Battery Tender. A flashing red light on the Battery Tender indicates that the Battery Tender is not properly hooked up to the battery.

It does not take a rocket scientist to hook up a Battery Tender; there are only two connections, red (positive), and black (negative).

After screwing around with the wires for a bit I got the red light to be on steady. A steady red light means the battery is charging.

I checked the charger on Saturday morning and the red light was flashing again. However, I tried to start my Harley like on Friday night. This time the engine turned a couple of times and then clicked real fast. This indicated to me that the battery got a little charge, but it was still dead.

I re-connected the Battery Tender, and got the flashing red light again. I was starting to think that the battery was bad. However, after messing with it for a time, I got the solid red light again.

I let it charge until Sunday night at which time I finally got a solid green light which means the battery was fully charged.

Finally I was able to get my motorcycle started up. I let it warm up at idle for about 10 minutes.

I was planning on riding to the Laughlin River Run this weekend, but unfortunately I will be in Las Vegas doing depositions during the latter part of the week, and then I have to attend a biker funeral this Sunday. So there will be no Laughlin this weekend.

So for me, when it rains, it pours. Let’s just hope the rain will not prevent me from blogging more frequently!

By California Motorcycle Accident Attorney and Biker Lawyer, Norman Gregory Fernandez, Esq., © April 24, 2011