In case we run out of fuel....

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what you said makes a lot of sense...may be we can check the members in this forum so that we can all contribute to the design cost and production upfront? just saying...

What for me? For me to make them? Mine will be hand made. I will probably end up having 100-200 hours into it... or more.. I can't sell it for $199 US.... This world is a funny place, after 13 years on the market, if NO ONE has yet to make this COOL rear fuel tank to offer for sale................................. There is a reason....

The R&D, and molds for this would be extremely expensive....... Im sure several companies that are in business of making plastic tanks have come across this photo in the last 13 years.. They are in the actual business... They never made anything similar............... Cost too much, and the average customer only wants to pay $100-$200.... Doesn't add up, they loose money...

The way Roto-Pax does it is about the only way.... They have one design and a few sizes..... "The key", they can sell that same tank, that can be bolted on to 5000 different vehicles. They are not custom for one vehicle like this Super Tenere tank..... Tooling / mold / start up cost for a plastic mold of that complexity might be $500K- $1m from people in the plastic business I know.
 

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what you said makes a lot of sense...may be we can check the members in this forum so that we can all contribute to the design cost and production upfront? just saying...
Obviously you can ask or propose anything but once there is a realistic price I doubt you'd get enough interested to make it worthwhile.
 

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A local customer of mine showed me how he does it.
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I have one so a couple of thoughts on the Rotopax:

1. I know they get mounted vertically but wouldn't do it because all the bouncing of an adventure bike (or most any other) is fatiguing that one 1/4" threaded rod. Mine went on the dirt bike flat as shown. It's nice that it still provides a flat surface to throw other bugs on.

2. I'd keep the spout oriented away from my butt. Every now and then it weeps.
 

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The output of the auxiliary tank is very low compared to the fuel pump (inside the tank)….probably that S10 Rally…had an external (and low) fuel pump
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The output of the auxiliary tank is very low compared to the fuel pump (inside the tank)….probably that S10 Rally…had an external (and low) fuel pump
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IMOP, this is only a fancy factory mock up. No real engineering in it. That’s why production stuff doesn’t look as cool as Proto type stuff. If this was 100% functional, it could have an external pump, internal pump. You can do it 10 different ways.
 
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