GoPro Test Run

Two weeks ago it was so cold that my diesel truck was being defrosted because of fuel gelling. Today it was 60 degrees and sunny. So I thought this would be a good day to take a ride and try our my new GoPro camera. These first couple of posts are meant to get me up to speed on my blogging skills. So here goes. Photo #1


Fritz underway on a sunny day

So now the next move is to get the camera a bit higher so that the view is a bit more centered.














Last night I got some messages from Tom in Australia, Tom in Norway, and Noel in Netherlands all discussing fuel stops in the Pamirs and Mongolia. The last trip I took I had this very elaborate extra fuel system on the bike. It was a work of art, except that the Kolpin tank was a piece of junk. Kolpin had not engineered the spout at all. So I was constantly fiddling around with cork and plastic trying to make a gas tight canister. I mean the things started leaking the minute we filled up in Nogales and did not stop until I put them on the shelf.

This time I am going to just buy some cheap containers or make something out of plastic soda bottles. Marty and I only had to use the extra fuel once on the entire trip (we were glad we had it then). But I always carry a siphon hose. Anyway, here are the pictures of what I rigged up the last time:

This is how I mounted the Kolpin. It was too cantilevered and I had to turn it around in the end so that it was over the rack.

This is Marty  and my bike out in the middle of Patagonia a long way from fuel. We used all we had and the 1.5 gallons each of us had in the Kolpins.

The range on a BMW 650GS is 280 miles or 450 km before it is bone dry empty. The bikes consistently got 62 mpg at 60 mph. I will have to start thinking in liters again. But I think the conversion is about 30 km per liter. Anyhow, I can go a long way on a tank of gas.