Coolant overflow bottle, why does everyone use ugle metal drink bottles?

[Mishdog20]

Can you cook Hotdogs in that thermos Rod....lol

[BANDITROD]

lol dickhead

[JackTar]

Can you cook Hotdogs in that thermos Rod....lol

You know he's still thinking about hotdogs don't you.

[hooligan]

how big do you think though hooligan?

you have kinda missed my point,its more why make so ugly and a stand out "feature" but anyway.

No I haven't. You put up pics of dirtbikes with tiny little overflows that would do fuck all on a water cooled road bike, but would look great. The standard overflow bottles on faired roadbikes are ugly because they are hidden, it's function over form, the body work takes care of the form.
When you fighter them, you need to find something that looks better than stock, but still works the same. Nothing worse than having a great looking fighter broken down on the side of the road because your snazzy looking but uselessly small overflow has meant that you can't run enough coolant.
And it needs to be big enogh to fit 2 hotdogs.

[BANDITROD]

cunts

[Tim]

No I haven't.

arh fuck it

my photos were only of examples(and pretty sure i said under one of the photos that you could custom make it to what ever size required.

My point is why make it so dam ugly and stand out( in a "after thought" kinda way)..

I could put up with that Banditrod..

[EVLZX]

It's really down to an individuals perception though isn't it?
One man's shit may well be another man's gold..

[Rocket]

I got different shaped coolant tanks from the wreckers, extended the hoses and mounted them under the fuel tank, in between the frame rails.
They can't be seen at all.

[Tony Nitrous]

I have the ugly crappy stock tank.

# Rarely finish anything I start,

#Not really that interested in looks,

#limited fund are better suited to tyres and fuel,
(chasing sportsbikes around the dam's the "look"
of my header tank isnt real high on my prioritys)

Might do it one day if I find a cheap, easy, lazy-man's option.

EDIT (maybe as Rocket suggested)

[ALBI]

this is what i used on my tls ,a $70 alloy job from super cheap.

[LKC73]

Tim, alot of the older bikes that are water cooled have very little space to hide once they become fighters.
To hold any amount of coolant for expanstion under heat it would need about 500ml o 750ml of coolant.
The "drink bottle" is one of the fastest way to get that amount of coolant attached to your bike.

This is one I had on for a while, but found it was to small (250ml) and went to another type that held 450ml and was a catch can for small car. It comes down to finding a place to put it aswell.

[TillerRider]

yeah bro show us pic's of ya bikes tank now ;-)

[Tomac]

That was only a 2 min google search for an image. i mean why have it on show( or atleast stand out so dam much) when its possible to hide it a little more. another idea(custom made so can be made to hold more fluid)Attachment 1839

(WTF) Isn't that bottle blocking some of the air flow or am I just being a fussy cunt?

[RevHead]

(WTF) Isn't that bottle blocking some of the air flow or am I just being a fussy cunt?

what air flow so long as air can get around the motor and the bottle no problem ,

[BANDITROD]

he is talking about the dirt bike pete

[Tomac]

^^^Yeah the dirt bike, Iv cooked my WR plenty of times on a muddy hill climb