Heyas,
 

Sorry to bump and old thread, but i myself have a 2006 XR250L , in black ;)~

and i think there isnt an aftermarket tank that will fit these bikes at all, please if someone knows please reply, id damn near give my left nut.


oh how i want a bigger tank ;(

did you have to repair them because they were getting caught on stuff? or were they simply not up for it? I am trying to figure out a cheap way to cart all my stuff around when I go but don't really want to pay for panniers

i got the soft panniers... they were great for 6 -7 months... now.. they are falling apart. maybe i should have built my pannier rack differently - but now i cannot change it... so i am fixing them once a week. I have a few suggestion which i am going to tell the manufacture to help make them better. all i can say to you - is make your rack as wide as the panniers to support the whole width! then hopefully no sowing for you!!

In 2002 I did Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia on a Djebel 250 with soft pannier bags that I had made. Cost me about Au$30 all up. 2 army bags and an old seatbelt. Used my Mums sewing machine. In hindsight I should of built a frame to keep the bottom of the bags away from the sprocket/disk when the suspension was under heavy load. They survived the whole trip though.

I suggest making your own bags, it really is easy.
On this trip I made hard pannier boxes, not easy but super cheap, waterproof and much more secure than bags.
Check the bike prep. section of our bilingual blog if interested.
Nathan and Aki

So any word on tanks for our new super cool xr250L's which seem so hard to get anything for ?

I replaced my tank in Cambodia with a honda Baja tank, which is a 14L tank.

There were only one time, I could have done with a bigger tank and that was in Mongolia, and I was way off course and had missed a planned fuel stop. People told me, I would need a tank that would alow me to have a fuel range of 300-400kms. This is not ture. There are fuel stations every 200kms (roughly) unless of course you are heading into the middle of nowhere from the middle of nowhere!!

I know you can fit a tank that sits on your seat behind you, but I decided not to take that option as it was adding weight where you didnt really want it. Sorry I do not not have the name or brand of this tank.

I have some of those plastic 'bark busters' on my TS185 which I do a lot of dirt riding. I have crashed it at least 25 times and have never broken a lever because the 'bark busters' take the impact. These would be a good option for when you bin off. Don't have your levers done up too tight either so when you crash they are more likely to move out of the way then break. Some motox guys I have talked to recomended putting teflon thread tape around the bars where the levers go on so that they move insted of break when you crash, I havn't tried this though.

What you can do is wrap 100mph tape around the frame, so that you don't have to carry a roll seperatly. Could do the same with copper wire. copper wire is good because it's quite soft so its easy to tie things up with.