Carrying extra petrol

[vifferman]

Pussies.
Last time I carried spare fuel, it was in a 1-galloooon can, in my backpack, on a 100km bush ride. Unfortunately, I missed a sign, and did one loop twice. Even more unfortunate was the petrol in the rustyish can deciding it had had enough of leaping around in the backpack and making a break for freedom, by tunneling its way out of the can. Also (more?) unfortunate was the fact that it happened about 20km or so into the ride, so there wasn't enough room in the gas tank yet.

[twotyred]

Mega Mitre10 has 3.9L (1 US gal) in 2 varieties: good solid ones for $10 or more square but of a lighter,thinner manufacture,for $6.

[rok-the-boat]

When I lived in South Korea I sometimes saw students going to university with bottles of petrol. They only had rags in the top but they never leaked. Smelt a bit on the bus though but no one ever complained.

[FLYMO]

go see ya local mower shop they can get alloy chainsaw ones that have 2 compartments.one for oil and one for fuel
they are slim as have to be carted by loggers
they are called toucans
they are a bit expensive but well worth the investment

[csanson]

I got one of those plastic fuel containers designed for two strokes with 2 compartments and sawed it down the middle. What was intended for oil is now a nice circa 2L flat fuel container that sits nicely in a backpack or on a carrier.

[marks]

picked up a 3.9L container from mitre10 for under $10. Seems OK and has abig enough hole to fill from a pump nozzle

[xr-rider]

Hi

I'm sure this has been discussed many times - I'm hoping theres something new out there...

I carry a 5L container in a soft pannier on the DT but it takes up over half the pannier and I only need 2-3L for backup.

I've been to supercheap and repco and tramping stores (alloy 1L ones for $36 - forget it) all to no avail.

I have plenty of empty 1L plastic oil containers - if it stored oil is it OK for petrol? or - preferably does anyone know where I could get a 2L or 3L proper petrol container?

cheers


Mark

when i had the cr we used an old oil bottle. worked well