Stock gas cap observation.
Posted: 08:21 pm Apr 16 2007
I was standing in my garage this morning having my first cup of coffee when I had a revelation
I recently epoxied a small crack in my gas cap on my 220 caused by a slow speed tip over in the rocks. I had always scoffed at those 50-100 dollar billet caps you see for sale, but I guess I'd been lucky in the past with previous bikes, and had never replaced one. At least not from damage I had caused. (cough)
I looked over at the wife's crf and noticed how nice it's gas cap slopes quickly downward from dead center, looking back at the KDX, mine looked like a large plastic tuna can just begging to be sheared off from impact.
I often cursed the design of the Honda's cap because sometimes it's hard to get a good grip on it to turn it because of the way it's shaped. But I now realize the design was most likely intentional so as to not have flat sides, which will allow an object to slide off it instead of creating a direct impact zone.
Kudos. Mr slopey gas cap inventor.
I recently epoxied a small crack in my gas cap on my 220 caused by a slow speed tip over in the rocks. I had always scoffed at those 50-100 dollar billet caps you see for sale, but I guess I'd been lucky in the past with previous bikes, and had never replaced one. At least not from damage I had caused. (cough)
I looked over at the wife's crf and noticed how nice it's gas cap slopes quickly downward from dead center, looking back at the KDX, mine looked like a large plastic tuna can just begging to be sheared off from impact.
I often cursed the design of the Honda's cap because sometimes it's hard to get a good grip on it to turn it because of the way it's shaped. But I now realize the design was most likely intentional so as to not have flat sides, which will allow an object to slide off it instead of creating a direct impact zone.
Kudos. Mr slopey gas cap inventor.