Auxiliary fuel tank

[tweeter55]

I'm gonna try to build something that will give a thinking person pause, in a good way.

I trust you are not going to do this project without pictures. When you say it will give a thinking person pause, to me that means fine engineering skills will be apparent. Your name ain't Deziner for nothin'.

[Deziner]

I am far too vain to show pictures of the whole process.  In my occupation, it's frequently like the sausage thing. Tasty when done, but not a process you want to see being done.

Engineering skills?  It's more like a whole lot of  , and  , with some  mixed in. If I'm lucky there is a little more  than  at the end.

[Rembrant]

A friend and neighbor of mine...an aluminum fabricator (and motorcycle mad scientist of sorts) made dual aux fuel tanks for a local guy with a 2009 Concours-14. I believe it was two 2 gallon tanks...one on each side. He formed and moulded them to kinda blend in with the bike, and form fit the fronts of the side cases. The tanks were mounted on each side of the bike, and bolted to the passenger pegs (passenger pegs were removed). Each tank was plumbed/pumped into the bottom of the C14 stock tank via a bulkhead fitting that was added.

This guy did a cross country (Canada) coast to coast Iron Butt challenge in just under 72 hours...which by the way is much farther than coast to coast USA. If I recall correctly, he was getting 600 km range, or 375 miles, and that was running pretty hard as I understand it;).

I'll see if my friend has any pictures of the custom tanks.

Rem

[Deziner]

Thanks, Rem. I'm open to virtually all suggestions.

[XPLRN]

A friend and neighbor of mine...an aluminum fabricator (and motorcycle mad scientist of sorts) made...................

My neighbor used to ride a lot of miles on his H-D and was interested in doing the same thing, pretty sure he ended up building an aluminum axillary tank. I'll check with him, he might have gained some good info from that experience.