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Bonneville T100 adventure bike

Hello all,
Ive been doing a bit of research about overlanding on a t100 and found this link. Hand made 7-8 gallon tank. Emailed for a quote $2000 plus shipping. Ouch! But nice.

beastly adventure modifications: triumph bonneville t100 - Page 5 - ADVrider
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Hello varadero05

I rode an '06 Bonneville 42,000 miles around Europe.. Metal Mule panniers but no mods to the bike itself. If you have any questions I'd be happy to [try and] help. If it would be easier over a pint, I'm up the road in Norwich.

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Hello all,
. Emailed for a quote $2000 plus shipping. Ouch! But nice.
Strewth. Why did that quote remind me of the Chinese bloke the in the "Virgin Soldiers". He was called Fook Mi or something.

Take a look at

https://sites.google.com/site/threew...d-improvements

Auxilliary tank: still aluminium but gives you as much as you'd like at £70 or so and if it cracks you keep the 16 litres in the bike tank.

The Tank Shop: Quoted me £300-400 for an Aluminium bike tank.

I can only guess the spare thousand was to cover some special process involving rocking horse poo that prevents aluminium cracking. Put it this way, IMHO there is quadraped excrement involved somewhere if a tank costs over a grand.

Andy
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Hi Mike and Threewheelbonnie

Now im not one to go casting dispersions about pricing but I think $2400 would buy a lot of petrol for the standard tank. I did have some thoughts about just carry a bit extra and looked into the use of jerry cans and cans with breather vents in. Found these

RotopaX 1 GALLON FUEL PACK, Gas, Jerry, ATV, Kolpin:eBay Motors (item 200350177125 end time Sep-05-09 01:06:51 PDT)
Wasnt this link but I found one somewhere where the mount looked like it could be fixed onto the hepco and becker pannier rails ive got. Are you still on your Bonnie Mike? Would like a ride out sometim.e
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dont carry petrol in a top box.
When I had my BMW i used to carry a spare gallon in one of teh panniers. it was an exact fit and did not budge. Testing to see how far I could go on the Enfield, I put acan in my pizza delivery top box. Somewhere along my ride the can fellover and spilled about 3 litres of petrol. It was all sloshing about in the top box. I managed to recue everything except my glasses case and phone had both dissolved The box is fine. So I still do not know how far, or how much fuel my bike has. The BMW supposedly had a 22 litre tank, but I never could put more than 18 litres in it even after doing 40Km on reserve. The Enfield took 11.81 litres after 15KM on reserve to give me a range os 252 miles of local runs. The tank is suppose to have 14.5 litre capacity ( +- 1 litre). Htchcocks do a 18 litre tank for 160+vat and I may well buy one as I sometimes need a 300 mile range from ferry port to home.
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Last time I went out with a can of petrol in the topbox of my Transalp I found that a previous owner thought that it was O.K. to just have the rack held on with two bolts instead of four.At some point the rack drooped down leaving the indicator just behind the exhaust,nicely melting it.
Lesson learned,check absolutely everything over when you buy a bike.
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The trouble with jerry cans is that you have to stop to use them, fine up some trail, not so great at spaghetti junction, plus people have a habit of stealing them.

Old BMW: For the Enfield, check out E-bay there are 22 litre Bullet tanks from India at a lot less than Hitchcocks prices. The guy who took my Bullet off me got one, had it repainted and still had enough cash left to start his next project. Unfortunately for us Bonneville riders we have a very large frame tube. It'd be major surgery to get an Enfield tank on.

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I have the Norman Hyde 5 gallontank on my '07 Bonny.Its good for round 200 miles before you have to think about filling up.It doesnt have a reserve on it so you have to plan your route to include fill ups within its range.I have just done a 13000 k tour round Australia and there was only one stretch out of my bikes range, but I hade a 1 gallon jerry csn for such situations.The tank is around 800 quid from Norman and my matched my bikes black and silver colour scheme.
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