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Today was Julie's first ride in over 9 weeks following a muscle tear. My normal routine is to ride the Purple Girl first cause she's easy, but I wanted the option of heated gear so I took Sheila, my BMW R1200R. She's a sweet ride and has cool features like keyless ignition. <cue doom music> I noticed that I had an alert, but my gps was charging from being out of use, so I couldn't see what it was. Jaron noticed that my headlight was out.  We had a nice ride and stopped at Panera when Julie got the hungries. My fuel light had just come on before that, so we stopped at a Wawa on our way out.  Julie could not get her gas tank open and noticed a key battery warning. I opened up the key and saw that it was a common coin battery size and went inside to see if they had one (no). As I came back out, I thought, surely past Julie prepared for this. Sure enough, I had a new coin battery in with my manual. Score!  Now the low key battery warning was gone, but we still could n...