First ride report of MH tank!

May 14th, 2006

Our tester checked in via blackberry:

> From: S
> Sent: Sun May 14 10:33:40 2006
> Subject: Tank Report
>
> I am at about 70 miles and stopped for breakfast at Twin Lakes
> (Potrero.) I opened the tank. Lots of air rushed in. Soon heading
> into uncharted territory. :-).

> From: S
> Sent: Sun May 14 11:41:56 2006
> Subject: Re: Tank Report
>
> I am on Mt Laguna. Fuel light came on at about 120 miles. Can see a
> small amount of fuel straight below the gas cap which means the
> front sump is full.

> From: S
> Sent: Sun May 14 13:44:22 2006
> Subject: Re: Tank Report
>
> It started to run out of gas at about the 145 mi mark (exiting I-8
> westbound at Japatul - had come down Mt Laguna and got on the freeway
> there) it never died and was back to normal as I was rolling ramp and
> then ran out at about 12 miles later on Skyline Truck Trail. Got the
> footpeg push to a gas station where it took 4.4 gallons. I could hear
> gas sloshing…presumably in the front sump.

So it looks like where we stand right now we've got 4.4 gallons usable which he got 145 miles out of. Not bad — doubled capacity!

Next step is to talk with the manufacturer about revising the design to improve slosh-back some. The beauty of this process is that changes are relatively easy to make and can happen very quickly.

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