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Australian Long Range Tanks.......

Found a company doing Long Range Tanks for XR, DR and a few others - Aqualine in Australia - they normally make water tanks..... as you guessed.
Dont know if they are any good, any experiences Guys ?
The UK importer is: Core Racing.

www.coreuk.co.uk

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No personal experience - but they have a good reputation.

Some people with that personal; experience -
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57004
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Found a company doing Long Range Tanks for XR, DR and a few others - Aqualine in Australia

Grif
They make an excelent product, with a good rep in Australia. They have lots of extra UV protection in the plastics to suit Aus. and from memory (I don't have one but a mate does on his DRZ) they have metal nuts instead of screwing the mounting bolts into the plastic of the tanks.
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have just bought one havent fitted it yet,but for me these were the advantages over the acerbis came in white so can see fuel level,brace across front which protects radiators and also a couple of litres extra capacity, i think acerbis is 23 litres aqualine varies from 25 to 26 litres depends all come out slightly different from mould
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