Topic: charging problem??

[P_Camps]

I may be panicking for nothing (hopefully) but maybe I'm not.

I took my bike (cb550) home on thursday (07/01) and it has been in the garage while I get my bike licence.  I've started it everyday but haven't let it stay on much.  I have ridden it across my block and in short jaunts I've managed to put 3 miles (5km's) on it.  Today I figured I was gonna let it warm up fully, ride it a bit around the block and then leave it running for a half hour or so. 

After about 20-30 minutes of idling in my driveway I turned off the bike, went to restart it but the battery did not have enough juice to restart the bike.  Keep in mind that I picked up the bike with a Brand new battery installed.
I'm thinking I did not ride it enough to actually charge the battery (never even got out of second gear), and besides a few throttle squeezes in first gear I never did ride the bike much. 

What is responsible for charging the battery in this bike?  Is there an alternator??  or did I just simply not ride the bike enough to recharge the battery?

[THE DUDE]

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[Jerry Rxman Griffin aka MuthaF'er]

Idling like that drains the battery as they do not produce the replacement electricity until ~1800rpm. Get a Battery Tender and it will be ready to go when you are. Hopefully thats all there is to it. Sometimes bikes for sale get new batteries because there is a problem with the electrical system and the old battery is toast.