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POLL: Would you buy an aluminum tank...?

Started by ducatiz, January 27, 2012, 06:28:55 AM

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CrashVR

#30
January 28, 2012, 04:51:34 AM
Considering that I'm buying an S2R for $5000, and planning on buying a CA Cycleworks plastic tank for $500, I would definitely pay $1000 for an unfinished Aluminum tank.  In fact, Please please do this!  The S2R is my perfect bike, but It's really been making me sad that I have to replace the tank for a bike I have a deposit on with a tank that can't be painted or is equally as faulty.  Especially because I was unaware of the issue when i put he deposit down.

ducatiz

#31
January 28, 2012, 05:54:36 AM
Quote from: Curmudgeon on January 27, 2012, 09:09:43 PM
Steel tank on that bike I believe.

the tank is plastic!
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#32
January 28, 2012, 07:24:17 AM
Quote from: ducatiz on January 28, 2012, 05:54:36 AM
the tank is plastic!

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#33
January 28, 2012, 07:42:48 AM
Here is the other potential.

Convince Ducati NA that THIS is what they should be replacing tanks with to avoid the market for used Ducatis and ANY Ducati with a plastic tank ...tanking  8)

DRKWNG

#34
January 28, 2012, 08:47:14 AM
Wouldn't change anything from Ducati's perspective, as they can't/won't go through the process of certifying the different bikes with this tank.
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#35
January 28, 2012, 08:57:26 AM
Quote from: ducatiz on January 28, 2012, 05:54:36 AM
the tank is plastic!

You took a magnet to the showroom?!  ??? I've read steel in several places. Is that just a steel cover then, as a magnetic tank bag works on the "standard". So..., you are saying that the "real" tank is plastic while the skin is steel on several versions?

Hmmm...
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#36
January 28, 2012, 09:39:20 AM
I voted for 1500 max. Considering most 2v bikes from mid 2000's on are worth on average ~5k then it really doesn't make much sense spending half the value on just a tank.

NorDog

#37
January 28, 2012, 10:11:31 AM
Quote from: ducatiz on January 27, 2012, 06:28:55 AM
Not "how much would you LIKE to pay"  it is "How much WOULD you pay?"  If you're willing to shell out 1500 say so.  That doesn't mean it will be that much.  I just need to know how much interest there is.

Assume the tank will fit any carbed or FI 2v monster.  May fit other models, but at this point only focusing on 2v.

(Yes I know about the Beater Moto tanks.  $2250 plus $400 in shipping is why no one has one)
(I'm considering investing in this, I need to know realistically how many can be sold before I have 100 made...)

My 2007 S4RS is left out again.  No one makes a tank for it, except Ducati, and, well, I have one of those already.

Maybe one of the reasons you don't see and Beater Moto tanks is because the company never responds to emails, at least not the ones I've sent
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ducatiz

#38
January 28, 2012, 10:43:43 AM
Quote from: Curmudgeon on January 28, 2012, 08:57:26 AM
You took a magnet to the showroom?!  ??? I've read steel in several places. Is that just a steel cover then, as a magnetic tank bag works on the "standard". So..., you are saying that the "real" tank is plastic while the skin is steel on several versions?

Hmmm...

yep its the cover that's metal
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thought

#39
January 28, 2012, 12:23:51 PM
Quote from: NorDog on January 28, 2012, 10:11:31 AM
My 2007 S4RS is left out again.  No one makes a tank for it, except Ducati, and, well, I have one of those already.

Maybe one of the reasons you don't see and Beater Moto tanks is because the company never responds to emails, at least not the ones I've sent

Maybe contact Jvax on this board.  I know he's based in Japan and he speaks japanese... he was the one that posted a link up to the new monster alu tank and said that he was in contact with them.  Since it seems that he knows them already, it will probably be easier for him to get any answers.
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#40
January 28, 2012, 01:23:06 PM
After rereading your original post, I would easily pay $1500 to $1750. And it would be a definite yes
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#41
January 28, 2012, 01:25:18 PM
Quote from: thought on January 28, 2012, 12:23:51 PM
Maybe contact Jvax on this board.  I know he's based in Japan and he speaks japanese... he was the one that posted a link up to the new monster alu tank and said that he was in contact with them.  Since it seems that he knows them already, it will probably be easier for him to get any answers.

I contacted him a bit ago before deciding to investigate myself and before hearing about this from Ducatiz, unfortunately, I got nothing....
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DarkMonster620

#42
January 28, 2012, 04:57:57 PM
Quote from: ducatiz on January 27, 2012, 06:55:42 AM
I have to assume the capacity would be more, no idea how much until the prototypes are finished.

metal tanks were 4.5 gallons if memory don't fail .. plastic tanks 2.5gl ...
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#43
January 28, 2012, 05:07:30 PM
Quote from: Panamanian Monster on January 28, 2012, 04:57:57 PM
metal tanks were 4.5 gallons if memory don't fail .. plastic tanks 2.5gl ...

On the monsters? Steel tanks were almost 4.4 gallons and the plastic tanks were 3.6 gallons.
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#44
January 28, 2012, 05:10:13 PM
Quote from: duc750 on January 28, 2012, 05:07:30 PM
On the monsters? Steel tanks were almost 4.4 gallons and the plastic tanks were 3.6 gallons.

when I fill mine up .,.. that's running on fumes, it takes only 2.6gl ...2005 M620D ... plastic tank, my buddy, S4R, S4, 4.4gl also from the fumes ...
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Quote from: ducatiz on March 27, 2014, 08:34:34 AMDucati is the pretty girl that can't walk in heels without stumbling. I still love her.
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