Biggest fuel tank on a small (ish) bike?

GTR1400 · Trackday Trickster Joined: 16 Apr 2011 Karma :

Hey guys, just a random one as it popped into my head..

What's the biggest fuel tank you've seen on a bike that's not huge.. let's say <1000cc? So none of those horrible big american wagon-bikes Razz

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Fed up of having a bike that only holds about 4 trickles of fuel :/

Drake · World Chat Champion Joined: 01 Oct 2010 Karma :

tatters bmw something
or joe's xt660 both on the forum, bow fairly big tanks for the style of bike
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GTR1400 · Trackday Trickster Joined: 16 Apr 2011 Karma :

A friend of mine has a 125cc bike that's got a 17 litre tank :/.. that's practically twice the size of mine D:.

Can't wait to get onto a big bike Very Happy

P.addy · Red Rocket Joined: 14 Feb 2008 Karma :

You can buy a 23 litre tank for the TT600R Laughing

It currently is around 9, but you can only seem to fit about 7 litres in. Laughing

stinkwheel · Bovine Proctologist Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

My mate has a KTM adventure with a safari tank fitted. It holds 40 litres.

As standard bikes go. A kawasaki Tangai had a pretty large tank. 24 litres I think.
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.Chris. · World Chat Champion Joined: 09 Jun 2007 Karma :

Kwak GT550 has something like a 20 litre tank. Engine is fairly economical too so they have a pretty good range.
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stevo as b4 · World Chat Champion Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Karma :

I know that the CG125 held about 13litres i think, which basically means they run forever on a tank of fuel, well at least after being used to a KMX200 with a 9L tank and 50-60miles to reserve. Laughing

I think the 500cc GP replica's all had pretty big tanks of over 20-23litres for some reason too?

stinkwheel · Bovine Proctologist Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

Spangle2k4 · Borekit Bruiser Joined: 28 Jun 2011 Karma :

My wife's 1998 GPZ500 achieves 60mpg in regular riding and has an 18L tank. That's an easily achievable 200 miles per tank.

My 2011 G650GS has a 14L tank (typically seems to take 12 even if you push it between fill-ups) and returns 75mpg. 180 miles is my typical tank range.

Edit: The G650GS isn't that small.

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G · The Voice of Reason Joined: 02 Feb 2002 Karma :

My KTM690 has 12l standard with an additional 14l safari tank.
My rat BMW R100RT had a circa 28 litre rally tank bodged on it.

But yes, mpg to fuel tank is more important I'd say.

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Kickstart · The Oracle Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Karma :

Hi

The old Aprilia Tuareg Rally 125 had a (claimed) 24L tank. Old Paris Dakar style bikes could be a bit silly like that.

All the best

Keith
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Derivative · World Chat Champion Joined: 03 Aug 2010 Karma :

CB5 has an 18L tank. Not massive but reasonable for a 500.
Tank range is roughly 250 miles.

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daemonoid · World Chat Champion Joined: 27 Jun 2008 Karma :

Pick what you like and get one of these:

https://tourtank.com/TourTanks.html

When I finally get my zombie apocalypse machine it will have at least one aux tank.
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