Saddle Bag Gas Can
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From: Everywhere
Yea, because carrying highly flammable substance between your legs next to your crotch is so much safer!
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From: Somewhere on the Bourbon trail
I'd get to know your bike's range at various driving scenarios. I think you'll be using the gas in the REDA on your mower way more than your bike. Gas is pretty much available these days, even out in deliverance country. But if you need to, it'll fit in your bag, just make sure you seal it real good if you ever use it, cause you'll be replacing your bag if any gas leaks.
Last edited by RKZen; May 21, 2015 at 06:59 AM.
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The Reda can will fit in the leather bags, it just won't tuck up tight to the back like it can in the hard bags. At least that's what others have claimed when carrying it in their leather bags.
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From: Dark side of the Moon
I know some folks who use a MSR fuel bottle and then put them either inside a saddle bag, constructed or bought a leather carrier and strapped it to a frame rail. Not uncommon in the chopper world. I think they also would fit in a saddle guard bag water bottle pocket.
Nash sells a carrier. http://nashmotorcycle.com/collection...cts/fuel-sling
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From: Sterling Heights, MI
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Just pull over a little more often and fill up every time you do.
Myself, I like to pull over every couple hours or so in a car or a bike as my bladder usually dictates so.
Myself, I like to pull over every couple hours or so in a car or a bike as my bladder usually dictates so.
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From: Rolla
Honestly, it really comes down to why you think you need extra gas in the first place.
As someone else mentioned, if it is because you will be traveling where there is a possibility of great distances between fuel stops, then there are options.
But it is rare that you find yourself more than 100 miles from a filling station.
I sure wouldn't carry around extra gas just for the piece of mind of not worrying about running out of fuel.
However, if I was traveling somewhere that I knew it was 200 miles between fuel stops and my bike would only go 150 miles then I would find a way to carry extra fuel.
In over 45 years of driving/riding, I have never needed to travel more than 100 miles before finding fuel.
As someone else mentioned, if it is because you will be traveling where there is a possibility of great distances between fuel stops, then there are options.
But it is rare that you find yourself more than 100 miles from a filling station.
I sure wouldn't carry around extra gas just for the piece of mind of not worrying about running out of fuel.
However, if I was traveling somewhere that I knew it was 200 miles between fuel stops and my bike would only go 150 miles then I would find a way to carry extra fuel.
In over 45 years of driving/riding, I have never needed to travel more than 100 miles before finding fuel.
