One of the guys on the owners club website had a 23L tank that the CCM factory had made for their Paris Dakar entry in the late 90's and sold it to me.
23L is better than the std 13L but for my last two UK - West Africa trips I've had a 40L tank on a XR600 and got used to not having to worry about whether fuel stations were shut / out of fuel / I had no money till the banks opened etc.
The down side was that 40L of fuel was a lot of weight high up (I had to reinforce all of the mountings) and I can only remember filling it up completely three times on the last trip. Most of the time I kept it around 20 -25L
The plan this time is to use the 23L as the main tank and split another 5 or so litres onto the pannier racks.
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