Tue Oct 8 00:00:26 1996 - Message No. 62
From: "Joerg Juenger"

Subject: Info about big tank for XRV


Hi guys,

the guy Stefan Jaspers who manufactures these big tanks Achim mentioned
lives only 5 kms from my home.
So i vidsited him and took a close look to the tanks he manufactured.

Here is a small summary:

The tanks are made of fibre layer (in German: Glasfibermatten) which got
laminated together layer by layer.
If wanted the walls of a tank can be thicker than normally made; normal is
about 3 to 4 mm thick. According to this Stefan the tanks with this wall's
thickness are more stayble than the original tank (can't proof that).

The hole to fill up the tank is one for the normal acerbis plastic covers,
for additional cost (plus 241,50 DM) you can get a hole where the original
cover fits in.
The surface is already covered with primer, after honing the tanks can be
painted with normal paint.

=46or the RD04 a 42liters tank is available for 1799,-DM.
=46or the RD07 a 45liters tank is available for 1799,-DM.
=46or the RD04 a 56liters tank is available for 1899,-DM.

=46or all tanks you get a certificate for pressure proof to be able to get
the tank registered at the TUEV (important for german riders).

These are the facts about it.

My personal opinion:
The material seems to be atleast more stayble than the plastics of the
Acerbis tanks (and the one from Acerbis that i had for the KTM wasn't bad).
The manual work was well done. The additional volume is gained because the
tanks are  wider and higher than the original one, the bigger one for the
RD07 is additionally tighter to the cooling in it's bottom front area, but
it doesn't look to tight so i wouldn't exspect any problems with air
ventilation.

So i think about ordering a tank for my RD07 around chrismas time, in case
somebody else is interested in such a tank feel free to drop me a note,
maybe we can work out a discount if we order more than one ?!

Have fun,
JJ

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