greg watts

I just had a look at the Acerbis website and that looks like the perfect solution to me. I'd only seen a 1l one before which I thought was too small to be of much use, but a 3l one would be spot on. Thanks for the info. That's the proglem pretty much solved! Thanks. That gives me something to work on in deciding which size auxillary tank to order up.

Can't change the tank on that! The tank behind the lights/number board only holds a very small amount anyway, more for an emergency then general riding. Why do you want lights? They're crap on a trials bike and are no use for lighting anything! Lights was just in case I get caught out at dusk and for riding on murky days in the autumn. More about a bit of safety on the short road sections than for actually seeing anything. So, only tank chagers seem to me the mont and the scorpas from what I see. I think I might be able to squeeze onto a SY250 and even if it's not got the long ride kit I could buy one at a later date. I think it's less than 500 Euros. Still a lot more cash than a rucksack and some sigg bottles though!

Thats an idea. Although it seems most people out here in France leave their light kits in place on their trials bikes anyway, so I think the majority of 2nd hand bikes will come with lights. Been looking on French ebay and small ads. Seems the Beta Rev 3's are the best value. I don't mind too much what I buy as they'll all be a massive amount better than the machines I rode in the 80's and will no doubt be way better than my ability to ride.

Thanks for that. I've seen those advertised on an American website for about 70 USD. Could work, although I'm hoping to have a working set of lights on the bike, so that kind of scuppers that one for me.

Thanks for the replies so far. All very helpful.

Hi all I'm close to buying a trials bike to use for local trail riding and playing about - and I might do the odd trial from time to time too. I live in the Frech Alps and have been tooling about on my DRZ400. It's fine on the jeep tracks, but all around me are amazing looking 'goat' tracks and areas to 'play' which the DRZ is just way to big and heavy for. So, cue the trials bike. The last trials bike I had was a twin shock TY175 back in the early 80's when I was riding class C. I was just wondering what sort of fuel range I might get out of a modern (say 1998 onwards) bike? I'm only planning to spend around 12 to 15 hundred quid, so buying a Scorpa Long Ride for example, is out of the equation. Therefore I wondered what solutions might exist for setting a bike up with a longer fuel range. Can you get large capacity tanks for 6 or 8 year old Gas Gas, Beta's, Montesa etc? Just wondering what solutions there are and for what models. I guess the easy answer is to carry a few Sigg bottles in a rucksack, but seeing as I'll be trail riding and playing way more than competing, then ideally I want to find a better solution than that. Any pointers would be well recieved. Also, if anyone knows of trials clubs in the Haute Savoie region of France, I'd be interested to hear about that. - Not been able to find much on the web so far.