I sat a CX500 and it had a 30" seat and I was dancing on my tippy toes. Plus it has all the wet weight heavy issues as well. So off to the swamp to see the Master I goes .....
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'Ol Yoda was kinda grumpy today and he just said "Riding mower" and force-pushed my arse back on out of his hovel door, back off the path and back on down the hill so that I fell back into the the stinkin' mucky swamp water on the fly .....
..... where I landed
on my butt yet again all waist deep in the mucky green sludge yet again.
Kerplop on my arse yet again. I hate that stinking swamp -- I really do. He does this all the time now, ya know.
Being a Padawan learner to Yoda in his grumpy elder years really sux sometimes, lemme tell ya.
"Riding mower" likely means an ugly cheap plastic tank you can see through, and since he was looking at the back of my bike at the new rack when he said it, I kinda suppose he thinks I ought to mount there like a hundred and seventy dollar spun aluminum keg tank.
So I went and looked used tanks in the used mower junk listed on E-bone and this is what tickled my Yoda sense a little bit when I first saw it ..... a rectangular $10 plus $8 shipping type used plastic tank.
By tying this vertically to my sissy bar sitting on my new luggage rack, I get to use gravity to "equal balance" the two tanks with a simple hose "T" fitting above my carburetor inlet, with each tank having its own separate filter set up so that one filter screwing up with crap and trash does not stop the other tank from delivering fuel.
They would fill separately, but would move down with use roughly equally, so the back tank is also a readily visible "read at a glance" fuel gauge. Both tanks will be vented, so heat & pressure shouldn't be moving fuel from one to the other for much.
Eyeballing the tank and the rack horizontal wise, the bottom edges of the two fuel tanks will be very close to being the exact same height, with the aux tank maybe being a half an inch taller than the gas tank cap when judged on the horizontal.
So, I could just have me a black max fill line on the aux tank and fill the normal tank on up normally and not have to screw with anything at all, ever.
Looking 4-5 gallons net capacity at a cost of $18 plus fuel line and hardware. And I can take it off and put it back on depending on what/where I am going to be doing on that trip.
I shoulda asked 'ol Yoda for some training fund money to buy the stuff, he surely does like getting some change back from a twenty, he does.
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