Just prior to leaving my summer digs in SD, I had an accident on my TrailBoss 330, and broke my wrist. Pretty much limited with what I could do. When time came to leave, I just parked them in the garage, batteries connected, no tender. Thinking I can get a neighbor to go start them and run them a couple times between now and May when I return. How often should I ask him to start them?

On a different subject, the one I bought used with 800 miles has a noise that sounds like there is a spot of mud on one wheel rubbing on the plastic (that's best I can describe it). Any clue? Nothing I could see with a quick look.

 

My two cents would be to have your neighbor get a couple cheap tenders or alternate one tender alligator clip leads between batteries every few days. Just starting one up ever now and then may not help much on saving the batteries. The noise at the front could be mud or dirt between the pads or on the brake rotor. You can have the neighbor take a quick look at it. Sorry for the broken wrist. I know the pain as I broke mine years ago. RA is still reminding me of it now.