You might look at Tour Tanks. They fit real easily on your luggage rack.
Lonnie
yup, I put a Tour tank on the rear seat area of my /5 ,[no pillion riders anyway] and now my K100...great! I put a 3.5 gal tonk on each,
adds 100 mile extra range easily.
Truth be told -- this ol' butt likes getting off every 100 miles or so to get gas. But (butt), that's just me.
Sidecar Ron
Same with this ol' butt, Ron.
but.... it's nice to have the extra gas along and not have to plan your stops according the gas stations.. IE.... we can stop for gas, ride, then later about 100 miles if we see a nice wayside, park, pull in. stretch , rest, whatever, then take off. pass a few stations ahead and get gas whenever next stop requires. with my 6 gal reg tank and 3.5 Aux, I can travel over 200 miles before looking for a station. 33 MPG with my sidecar, loaded.
When I ran my bike really hard, I got about 85mpg, and when I take it really easy, I have gotten very close to 140mpg, and yes, that is with the sidecar.
Sorry all you others are getting bad fuel mileage with the poison your are forced to use. {;-)~~~~~
Opps, I'm sorry, this question was for gas burners, mybad, I don't use Gasoline, it stinks.
Dave
And now, Back to the real world.
Lonnie
As near as I can figure it, My Valk/Spyder gets about 28mpg at 65 or so. Any wind, higher speeds, heavy right hand, etc about 25 or less.
Since the car has a built in gas tank, my cruising range is still greater than my pit stops.
I've always said that the only way that I can get good gas mileage on the Valk is lie about it. LOL!
wayne
Originally written by solo1 on 4/21/2007 6:10 AM
As near as I can figure it, My Valk/Spyder gets about 28mpg at 65 or so. Any wind, higher speeds, heavy right hand, etc about 25 or less.
Since the car has a built in gas tank, my cruising range is still greater than my pit stops.
I've always said that the only way that I can get good gas mileage on the Valk is lie about it. LOL!wayne
I used to be on the GWRRA website and would read about fuel mileage on solo Valkryies. It seemed that they were good for about 28-30 mpg solo most of the time, if the rider went easy on the throttle....six carburetors, as I recall.
My 1994 Goldwing SE solo would get a much as 42 mpg on the road but if you pushed it, the mileage would drop to as little as 30 mpg.
It sounds like you are doing about the same with a sidecar as a solo Valk would do. Life is good!
Originally written by Hack'n on 4/20/2007 10:03 PM
And now, Back to the real world.
Lonnie
Lonnie,
I do live in the real world, and the figures I quoted are real, and the bikes I am building now will get the same mpg figures if not better running on non-toxic fuels, I rode my bike/sidecar to the Griffith Park rally on store bought non-toxic, non-polluting, Licorice flavored corn oil and @ 100+mpg.
I'm pretty sure the 35th Griffith Park Rally was actually held in the real world.
Dave
http://www.rbracing-rsr.com/lsr21/supercharged.html
I feel so dirty.
Actually, Griffith Park is in Los Angeles county which as most folks know is not in the real world. LOL.
And which of my local dealers sells this magical bike? And for how much money?
I would love to find a new diesel of about 1500cc, but the only place I know to look is Hayes Engineering and they have been promising a rebuilt KLR 650 "in a few months", since 2002. First it was going to cost under $7000. Last I looked it was up near $20k and they still didn't have a single one out on the street.
Put your homebuild on a production line with a reasonable warranty and dealer network and at a reasonable price and I'll be the first in line.
"Magical Bike", I like that analogy.
As for the HDT you mention, you might to read my post on the Dieselbike.net forum.
See:
http://www.dieselbike.net/phpBB-2.0.21/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=29
Guess you might have to learn to build your own.
Dave
It sounds like a lot of work to me. I sincerely hope that you enjoy it.
"One mans work is another mans pleasure!"
Dave,
The real world I referred to is the one in which 99.9999999% of the sidecarists here are burning what is called gasoline (see thread subject) in their production engined rigs. Not Licorice flavored corn oil.
I also had a Magnacharged Harley/Spyder rig that I piloted to the Griffith Park Rally a couple of years back from up by the Canadian border and if I stayed under 65 mph it would deliver about 45 mpg on premium gas. At 75 or so though it was a whole new ballgame.
Were your outstanding mileage figures attained at what would be considered normal freeway (not rush hour) speeds, or perhaps like Mobile gas economy run figures were logged? Just curious, since many experimental builders have exaggerated their results in the past.
(No long answers please, we don't want to hijack another thread, LOL.)
Interesting machine,
Lonnie
