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.
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