Small petrol container?

[Paul in NZ]

The Moto Guzzi guys in the USA use a 'fuel cell' on the rear of the bike and an electric fuel pump to transfer contents to the main tank. Some of them can go 700km plus without getting off the bike..... Crazy yanks..

[unhingedlizard]

Never had leaks or petrol disolving the bottles etc, biggest problem was finding a spare empty plastic bottle at the side of the road to cut the bum off and use as a funnel.

Try the tops off of waterbottles. You know, like the sports water ones. I have to carry two stroke oil with me on a long trip (not for too much longer though ) and found they work well.

[Transalper]

Lids on coke bottles are a softer plastic. Doesn't it eat through the lid seal? Do you have to pack em bottles so they can only standing upright?

[far queue]

Put some petrol in the 1.5 ltre coke bottle and it looked a very pretty pink colour. Went for a ride yesterday, with a low tank, and decided to take my reserve bottle. Hey, it's changed to a pee colour. Is this normal, stored out of the sun.

I don't know about the colour change, any I've stored for any length of time has had 2 stroke oil mixed with it, and still worked fine. The stuff carried on the bike is only in the container for a few hours at the most.

And next time you are bored fill a 2-litre bottle with water, find a quiet road and get a passenger to drop said bottle out of the car window at about 80kph, I've a good idea it won't burst and if in a thick canvas bag even less likely to burst.

I had a bottle of coke fall off the back of the bike once, it had coke in it and wasn't secured very well. The guy riding behind me wasn't very impressed when he rode his nice shiny new ZX1100 (I think that's right - litre sized ninja a few years ago) through a coke cloud. It was a very sticky bike when we stopped a few km up the road and he didn't seem to see the funny side

Lids on coke bottles are a softer plastic. Doesn't it eat through the lid seal? Do you have to pack em bottles so they can only standing upright?

Nope x 2

[Kyle]

Is this normal, stored out of the sun.

Yeah id say you could call that normal. Petrol goes off over time, and being stored in smaller containers makes it go off faster. To change color it must have been sitting for awhile. tiny containers like dirt bike fuel bowls, can make the fuel go off within a week or two, to the point they wont start till you get fresh fuel thru. At 1.5L It`ll problery still burn, but i wouldnt expect top performance from it.

[Clivoris]

Go to a dealer that sells Husky chainsaws, they do a petrol/oil combo that are bolted together,the oil container is 3ltrs and swap over the nozzel aswell, I use it when distance betwwen fill ups are unknown,my beast can be thirsty !

I have to say that tank size was the only reason I didn't look at a Super Duke. There have been a few deals on second hand ones too. I guess there are compensations though.