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Hello Everyone (who cares to read my lame post),
I live in TX and have plans to take road trips out to remote areas in the West wilderness. One of the accessories I bought was a tool tube and an MSR Fuel bottle. If you zoom in closely to the attached photo, you'll see the tube nestled behind the left-rear turn signal. I figured I wouldn't need it, however I came close to running out of gas twice, on my road trip to the Southeast last week. I was in a deluge on I-20 and I missed a sign that said something along the lines of "last exit for 20 miles." I knew I was running low on gas, however I wanted to punch through the rain storm for safety reasons. The second time was in the middle of nowhere in the GA/TN/AL area where I got turned around, had no LTE signal to GPS a gas station and the road I was on didn't appear on the back-up atlas/map photo copy that I always carry with me. Knowing I had about 15-17 miles of gas in the 1 liter bottle strapped to the bike was somewhat of a nice feeling.
I encountered two issues and would feedback from anyone who has one of these setups.
1. Even though the gas isn't supposed to leak, it did a little bit. I noticed gas within the tool tube, which I attribute to the intense heat (90+ for most of the trip and near 100 degrees on my return into TX). Any thoughts on this? This is the standard position and angle that I have seen on countless YouTube videos, where the lid of the tool tube is higher than the base of the tool tube.
2. I purchased the mounting kit / hardware for this, however I failed to note that the brackets really aren't made to be put on Givi pannier racks. I could not figure out a way to use them to mount, so in the end I had zip-ties. I don't want to put the MSR bottle in my pannier, for fears of getting gas all over clothes / gear.
One last thought - those logging trees you see in the video are an incredible danger. Besides the crazy turbulence they generate when going the other direction, they drop off pieces of back and flying chips of wood. I literally had a small wooden shard embedded in my glove like a splinter on a previous trip, before I had hand guards. I can't imagine if that piece hit me in the neck.
Thanks for any feedback or comments.
Regards,
Bob
I live in TX and have plans to take road trips out to remote areas in the West wilderness. One of the accessories I bought was a tool tube and an MSR Fuel bottle. If you zoom in closely to the attached photo, you'll see the tube nestled behind the left-rear turn signal. I figured I wouldn't need it, however I came close to running out of gas twice, on my road trip to the Southeast last week. I was in a deluge on I-20 and I missed a sign that said something along the lines of "last exit for 20 miles." I knew I was running low on gas, however I wanted to punch through the rain storm for safety reasons. The second time was in the middle of nowhere in the GA/TN/AL area where I got turned around, had no LTE signal to GPS a gas station and the road I was on didn't appear on the back-up atlas/map photo copy that I always carry with me. Knowing I had about 15-17 miles of gas in the 1 liter bottle strapped to the bike was somewhat of a nice feeling.
I encountered two issues and would feedback from anyone who has one of these setups.
1. Even though the gas isn't supposed to leak, it did a little bit. I noticed gas within the tool tube, which I attribute to the intense heat (90+ for most of the trip and near 100 degrees on my return into TX). Any thoughts on this? This is the standard position and angle that I have seen on countless YouTube videos, where the lid of the tool tube is higher than the base of the tool tube.
2. I purchased the mounting kit / hardware for this, however I failed to note that the brackets really aren't made to be put on Givi pannier racks. I could not figure out a way to use them to mount, so in the end I had zip-ties. I don't want to put the MSR bottle in my pannier, for fears of getting gas all over clothes / gear.
One last thought - those logging trees you see in the video are an incredible danger. Besides the crazy turbulence they generate when going the other direction, they drop off pieces of back and flying chips of wood. I literally had a small wooden shard embedded in my glove like a splinter on a previous trip, before I had hand guards. I can't imagine if that piece hit me in the neck.
Thanks for any feedback or comments.
Regards,
Bob