Bike Preparation to chase Frans
- Thread starter Farkleit
- Start date
So while awaiting a couple items ive ordered to arrive i decided to deal with hydration. An extremly important facet of long distance riding. Its best to drink while riding so you piss at refuels.
Upon searching the google i found these.
And
So i searched and struggled to find a round coleman.
My wife found a very upmarket hydration tank stainless steel and a Thermos brand.
I could not source a holder so i did what i do. Found some aluminium checker plate sheet and proceeded to cut a circle and a 100mm strip.
Then i used the TIG and welded the bits together. Found some RHS cut and welded that on as well
A trip to bunnings and some bits and we modify the flask. Drilled two holes in the lid. One for suction and one for a breather. Also some 6mm clear tubing that fits nicely over watering system rigid stem.
Also put a mini filter on the breather pipe to stop dirt ingress.
Upon searching the google i found these.
And
So i searched and struggled to find a round coleman.
My wife found a very upmarket hydration tank stainless steel and a Thermos brand.
I could not source a holder so i did what i do. Found some aluminium checker plate sheet and proceeded to cut a circle and a 100mm strip.
Then i used the TIG and welded the bits together. Found some RHS cut and welded that on as well
A trip to bunnings and some bits and we modify the flask. Drilled two holes in the lid. One for suction and one for a breather. Also some 6mm clear tubing that fits nicely over watering system rigid stem.
Also put a mini filter on the breather pipe to stop dirt ingress.
This works much better.
The other issues i found were with my uhf radio mount. It kept moving forward. I removed that tonight and drilled through the full mount outter and inner ball then knocked in a roll pin. Wont move now!
Aux fuel tank works a treat. We travelled a heap of back winding mountain roads with very rough pavement and i had no issues with my beefed up rear bracket thanks to a heads up from a living legend on this site.
My other real issue was my spot and spotwalla. Spot was not sharing data. Contacted Jason from spotwalla and by Sunday he had it sorted out. Sooo hopefully its all working going forward especially for this epic ride comming up.
Bring on the end of the month.
been spending a lot of time on tyre choice.
i looked seriously at metzler 01. the feedback was they are very noisy. some early reports is 8000klm life.
i have been running pr4 for a while now. this one has done about 11000 klm and its not a gt version.
so i am going to put on a new set of PR4 GT front and rear and see how we go.
here is something to ponder. fjr weighs aroind 270kg. add fuel gear me we are around 430kg. when cornering bike generates 1.5g. work it out pretty serious loads on tyres.
i looked seriously at metzler 01. the feedback was they are very noisy. some early reports is 8000klm life.
i have been running pr4 for a while now. this one has done about 11000 klm and its not a gt version.
so i am going to put on a new set of PR4 GT front and rear and see how we go.
here is something to ponder. fjr weighs aroind 270kg. add fuel gear me we are around 430kg. when cornering bike generates 1.5g. work it out pretty serious loads on tyres.
guys if you want to follow and see how we are doing this is the NEW LINK that will show MULTIPLE DAYS. not just the current day.
https://spotwalla.com/tripViewer.php?id=1416f59072d1a18ca6&hoursPast=0&showAll=yes
So anyone can can do this with their links all you need to do is get your normal link you share with family and at the end of the link you add this
&hoursPast=0&showAll=yes
all done.
https://spotwalla.com/tripViewer.php?id=1416f59072d1a18ca6&hoursPast=0&showAll=yes
So anyone can can do this with their links all you need to do is get your normal link you share with family and at the end of the link you add this
&hoursPast=0&showAll=yes
all done.