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- From: kdg@world.std.com (Keith D Gregory)
- Subject: Re: Riding with Gas
- Message-ID: <Bxx74B.8HI@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <1992Nov11.190254.8516@rtsg.mot.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:28:59 GMT
- Lines: 38
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- In article <1992Nov11.190254.8516@rtsg.mot.com> svoboda@rtsg.mot.com
- (David Svoboda) writes:
- >
- >I have thought of taking along a quart or so of gasoline as an emergency
- >fuel when I go on long tours. What is the net.consensus on what would be the
- >best container for that, and where it would be best to put the container.
- >The best thought I have is one of those spun aluminum camp fuel bottles,
- >strapped somewhere on the back of the motorcycle.
-
- It'd work. Just keep it out of the sunlight to minimize evaporation.
-
- I base this belief on the perhaps equally incorrect belief that "white gas"
- is ineed gasoline, without the various additives and what not that are used
- for engines.
-
- I do wonder, tho' ... what type of bike do you have that would get more than
- a few miles on a quart of gas? And if you're so far out in the wilderness
- that you ran out of reserve, will a quart of gas really help?
-
-
- >I carry a three-fuel camp stove when I travel, but usually empty it and let
- >it dry before I strap it on the back. I wonder if just leaving that full
- >of gas would be safe? It's pretty sturdy.
-
- Can you fill it and shake it without getting wet?
-
-
- >Dave Svoboda (svoboda@void.rtsg.mot.com) | "I just can't take
- >90 Concours 1000 (Mmmmmmmmmm!) | this weird shit
-
- This certainly isn't going to go far on an extra quart :-)
-
- >84 RZ 350 (Ring Ding) (Woops!) | before breakfast!"
-
- And are you going to take this on tour?
-
-
- -kdg
-