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PostPosted: 23:57 - 28 Mar 2007    Post subject: Makeshift Endurance Tanks- BMW F650 Reply with quote
Bert Harkins Racing do a larger tank for the BMW F650 Funduro - Incase anyone stumbles upon this in the future!


So.. I hit 130miles before clicking onto reserve. This time there's no water in the tank to kill my bike, yay!

Anyway, planning a long trip for the near future, and being lazy I'd like tyo get a little more from my tank. Checked everywhere I can think, including Touratec, and I can't find any form of un/official extra tank thingy-bits for the F650 Funduro, only the F650GS..

So, does anyone know of any generic fuel tank (other than a jerrycan) that's available?
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PostPosted: 07:15 - 29 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ah good to see you are going somewhere (I aint , March/April are heavy months for my finances and my french buddies say the weather was crap) ,
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not answering your question really but heres what I did for a crazy period a while ago.

you can always jerry rig it like me ie go to Argos buy one of those 20litre jerry cans , get a fuel line , put a jubliee clip on it, attach to the jerry can (put it side ways) , and add sort of a T junction to your fuel tap (under neath on the fuel line is quite good though you will need a sort of tap so that one tank at a time is used) , works well on naked Hondas since the fuel system is really quite simple, BMWs not so sure.

you just need to seal it up properly, taken to the logical extreme,

I could have gotten 1600 miles out of my endurance tanks

its cheap and very effective, a bit mad max (since 1600 miles need a spare tank on the back 21 litres and 4 jerry cans which gets difficult to link up from the right since the fuel pump things I've noticed are often on the left.

or just do what everybody else says , stop more often and taste the places you stop at, since I was originally planning on a straight gun down to Monaco (£50 in tolls £100 in petrol 23 hours riding) , but thought this was pointless.

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My tank was hidden in a side panier, but as said by many tourists French people smoke in petrol stations they probably won't care.
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PostPosted: 09:21 - 29 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Itchy wrote:
...go to Argos buy one of those 20litre jerry cans , get a fuel line , put a jubliee clip on it, attach to the jerry can (put it side ways) , and add sort of a T junction to your fuel tap (under neath on the fuel line is quite good though you will need a sort of tap so that one tank at a time is used)...

Or to really keep it simple (KISS) get the jerry can and a funnel. Fill jerry can with fuel. Put the jerry can on the bike. When tank empty take jerry can and empty into bike via funnel, return jerry can to bike and continue. When stopping for fuel also fill up jerry can (assuming it's nearly empty).

The problem you have with off the shelf extra endurance type bits for a Funduro is, as the name suggests, it's not marketed/supported as an endurance bike.

As you said there's stuff for the GS. I did post this (click text) for the GS from Touratech when stinkwheel was looking into aux tanks for the KLE500 (see this thread).

Another web page is here that has some alternative tanks (scroll down the page). Intended again for the GS but you might find something suitable.

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PostPosted: 10:49 - 29 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Acerbis do a 27Ltr tank for the Funduro. Wink
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PostPosted: 11:52 - 29 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
map wrote:
Or to really keep it simple (KISS) get the jerry can and a funnel. Fill jerry can with fuel. Put the jerry can on the bike. When tank empty take jerry can and empty into bike via funnel, return jerry can to bike and continue. When stopping for fuel also fill up jerry can (assuming it's nearly empty).
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its not THAT complicated, the prime advantage is that my system allows you to keep on going without stopping , stopping reduces your overal average speed quite alot, when I went down to exeter from Mancs I stopped not for gas but cus of deli belly ,

next time I did the same thing with the tank and didn't eat anything iffy and spent ages in road works and it sliced about 35 mins off me time.
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PostPosted: 13:14 - 29 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Finglonga wrote:
Acerbis do a 27Ltr tank for the Funduro. Wink


I've found one on Ebay, but it's red, and my bike's white.. There's a few days left though, so I've contacted Acerbis myself as there's nothing I could find on their site (even if I did spend 10minutes trying to read Italian before finding the English button...) to see if they can point me in the right direction.

If all else fails, the jerry can plan sounds interesting.. 1,600miles you say.. That should do! My fuel line has a quick release* which will help.

*We found this out when my dad said;
'Ah, and it's got a quick release, look'
-petrol pisses all over my leg and boot-
"So it does, turn the line to off next time, maybe?"


EDIT:
I e-mailed Acerbis in Belgium, and got an amusing, but very helpful reply. They directed me to Bert Harkins Racing. Who do a range of larger tanks for various bikes. Turns out brand new, the larger tank costs £200 inc. vat.
So, I'll be bidding on the e-bay tank Very Happy
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PostPosted: 18:10 - 29 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
alone wrote:
Finglonga wrote:
Acerbis do a 27Ltr tank for the Funduro. Wink


I've found one on Ebay, but it's red, and my bike's white.. There's a few days left though, so I've contacted Acerbis myself as there's nothing I could find on their site (even if I did spend 10minutes trying to read Italian before finding the English button...) to see if they can point me in the right direction.


I was going to put a link on for it but couldn't find anything I understood either.

alone wrote:

EDIT:
I e-mailed Acerbis in Belgium, and got an amusing, but very helpful reply. They directed me to Bert Harkins Racing. Who do a range of larger tanks for various bikes. Turns out brand new, the larger tank costs £200 inc. vat.
So, I'll be bidding on the e-bay tank Very Happy


Good job Touratech dont do one as it would be much more. Priced one up for my R150GS . . . £800 + cost of painting it. Shocked Shocked
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PostPosted: 18:34 - 29 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
i would have been supprised if nobody did them...

43litres is the biggest i've seen, for desert crossings.. also seen then built into the side panels..

I'd got for the one on ebay, its not that hard to paint a tank, and after 40,000 miles its really not going to matter too much Laughing

I'd defenately get a propper jerry can and with a proper spout (those plastic things are utter shite) and a jiggle pipe.. (try searching anchor army supplies on google) buy a seat, take the back half off and make a rack to fit the jerrys there Wink
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