Thanks for the info.
A bit off topic, but judging how much fuel to take is always a problem (at least to me). When I went down the Atlantic route I carried fuel in cans inside my panniers and between Nouadhibou and Nouackchott, by my calculations, I used exactly the capacity of my bike's fuel tank - so were the cans redundant? They wouldn't have been had I got lost.
Next trip I had some rally side tanks fitted and on the piste I thought I wouldn't need them, I did need them (one station had fuel but no electricity to pump it with, another just didn't have fuel) and on the piste where I thought I would need them I didn't, but that was only because the fuel tanker arrived the day after we did. But the spare fuel came in handy anyway as I had to give some to my riding buddy somewhere near Arlit.
My next trip will probably be to Iceland, and my next big trip will probably be trans-Africa, should the 'Hoggar/Lake Chad/Eastern DRC' route become feasible again. In both cases I reckon at least the 28L will be required.
That Aqualine tank doesn't look like it'll make the bike too top heavy though.
Interesting DRZ thread here: http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=115345
Let us know if go for the DRZ.
Cheers.
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