big fuel tank up to 56L. for many bikes

**spooky** · #1 7 Dec 2007

Ok, well, regarding a wider choise of big fuel tanks for differed bikes I post this here.

Just came across a web page of a company who supplies all sorts of equipment for Honda, BMW, Yamaha and others, mainly for rally needs....
any way the sale big GFK Front-Tank 56Ll for Honda XRV750 Africa Twin and even ally tanks as well. 45L for XR 650 and many more, rear fender tanks are there as well.

It looks like they are specialized in Honda equipment, could be a sort of Honda paradise....

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one little downside... you may have to polish up your German a bit, but it's easy to understand the picks ...

AfricanQueens
now the company's link is:
AfricanQueens - Spezialteile für Enduros und Reiseenduros.

OK for international use:
Willk-EN

the fuel tanks in there online shop, link is here:
https://ssl.kundenserver.de/s7427041...iew.shopscript

have fun

**juddadredd** · #2 7 Dec 2007

Hi Nice post I’d love to have the Touratech Tanks on my ride but.... I have fun lifting my Little Dakar when I drop it on hills fully loaded as it is, any lager or heavier and I don't think the newly Bionic Knee would take the strain.

I carry a Jerry can 5Lt and a Mr. Funnel: for making sure my fuels clean before it goes in the tank, from pump through Funnel into jerry can, then from there back through the funnel back into the tank. Takes about 2 minutes extra to do but I'd rather do that then mess up my fuel lines.

4 x 1Lt Trangia bottles for my Coleman petrol stove, plus if need be they can go in the tank so that's 5Lt + 4Lt and 17.5LT in my tank.

26.5Lts of fuel, and if need be I will buy another jerry can on my trip, at least when I drop the bike I can unload it if I can't pick it up by myself, if the tanks integrated there’d be no way I’d lift it as it would be way top heavy and I’m really short.

The above should give me about 350 miles, I think I'd have to be really stupid to be so far away from civilisation that I couldn't get some fuel someplace, coz if I'm that far away from everything else and I had an accident, I'd be all alone and probably die pinned under a stupidly heavy bike.

Just my 2 cents but I have to plan on dropping the bike and be able to get it back upright.

**oldbmw** · #3 7 Dec 2007

Hmmm

why not just get a bike that is more fuel efficient?
for just £130 you can buy a 20 litre fuel tanks for an enfield, and that will give about 320 mile range....500+ if you have a diesel engine

**spooky** · #4 16 Dec 2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by juddadredd

26.5Lts of fuel, and if need be I will buy another jerry can on my trip, at least when I drop the bike I can unload it if I can't pick it up by myself, if the tanks integrated there’d be no way I’d lift it as it would be way top heavy and I’m really short.

Oh yes I agree.... no more than a 24L to 30L fuel tank, add this 30Kg baggage and you are on the limit.

Quote:

Originally Posted by juddadredd

..... and I had an accident, I'd be all alone and probably die pinned under a stupidly heavy bike.

absolute, being trapped under my bike in a ditch ones.... well I was just able to get my left boot in between the grip and handle guard to lift the bike just a bit to free my right leg to get out of this situation. Any more baggage or a huge big tank would have been bad.

Quote:

Originally Posted by juddadredd

Just my 2 cents but I have to plan on dropping the bike and be able to get it back upright.

hope not to often... :-) but yes it can happened any time.... good luck..

**MikeS** · #5 16 Dec 2007

Sorry, but what the hell would you need a 56L tank for?? Anyone I met who had bought one of those daft 41L tanks only regretted it anyway. My basic 22L tank was fine and if I ever needed more, I just strapped on a 5L plastic water bottle with fuel or in the case of crossing that bit in Bolivia from SPDA to Uyuni, a 10L plastic jerry can which leaked all over the place. Folk do actually live in places where there aren't Shell garages on every corner so they tend to have fuel you can buy from them. And you get it out of a bucket, or a watering can, whatever. I actually only carried one small MSR fuel bottle (1/2L?) for my stove which got me to the next garage if I ran out, which incidentally only ever happened in Canada. Twice. I generally got anywhere from 250-290 miles on a tank depending on fuel quality and how badly I was riding.

Now back to my wine...