New battery

[Grumpy Goat]

Haven't replaced the battery in the RS yet, but I did put a Shoria LFX18L1-BS12 in my '92 Ducati about 4 years ago. ...

Thanks for the positive review on the Shorai.

I read that when the bike has been sitting for a while the battery goes into 'dormant' mode and has to be woken up This is done by switching the bike on for a certain time (depends on how cold it is, e.g. 4 - 5 minutes if it is 0 deg.F or something like that. If this extra step is not done the bike likely won't start and the reason the charge is greater on the second attempt is because it is waking up. At least this was my understanding reading the literature today.