Ok, I have to share this with you...
I have a spun stainless steel drink holder on my desk that I have been using for years. It does a great job of keeping my many cans of Diet Mountain Dew cold as I drink them throughout the day.
I was thinking how nice it would be to have this available to me on my PC800 while I ride... after all, that's one of the reasons I bought a modular helmet... so I could take a swig without having to remove it.
So I get this great idea that I would order a couple new drink holders, and put those large magnets on the bottom... you know... the Harbor Freight kind.
Then I could just slap it down on the gas tank and not have to deal with some wobbly-dangley-hangy-offy kind of thing growing out of some knob on my handlebars (something I wanted to avoid from the get-go).
So I get the drink holders, I attach the magnet on the bottom with some silicone glue, and ta-da. Genius.
Then I take it over to the bike and find out... the tank (actually the "Shelter" as it's called) is... wait for it... PLASTIC.
Duh... never even thought to check... every bike I ever owned had a steel fuel tank.
Not to be dismayed, I simply removed the Shelter and put the other magnet underneath with some additional silicone glue. There was plenty of room between the underside of the shelter and the top of the air breather box.
Now, I have this invisible "sweet-spot" that causes the can holder to hang on like mad.
Lastly, just to save the paint, I put some black felt under the bottom of the magnet, and a 6x6 piece of clear 3M plastic on the tank over the magnetic sweet-spot.
It works great, and sometimes freaks people out because I can ride along, at speed, with a drink delicately balanced on my "tank".
Jim
I'm planning to do this to my recently acquired ST1100P next.
I have a spun stainless steel drink holder on my desk that I have been using for years. It does a great job of keeping my many cans of Diet Mountain Dew cold as I drink them throughout the day.
I was thinking how nice it would be to have this available to me on my PC800 while I ride... after all, that's one of the reasons I bought a modular helmet... so I could take a swig without having to remove it.
So I get this great idea that I would order a couple new drink holders, and put those large magnets on the bottom... you know... the Harbor Freight kind.
Then I could just slap it down on the gas tank and not have to deal with some wobbly-dangley-hangy-offy kind of thing growing out of some knob on my handlebars (something I wanted to avoid from the get-go).
So I get the drink holders, I attach the magnet on the bottom with some silicone glue, and ta-da. Genius.
Then I take it over to the bike and find out... the tank (actually the "Shelter" as it's called) is... wait for it... PLASTIC.
Duh... never even thought to check... every bike I ever owned had a steel fuel tank.
Not to be dismayed, I simply removed the Shelter and put the other magnet underneath with some additional silicone glue. There was plenty of room between the underside of the shelter and the top of the air breather box.
Now, I have this invisible "sweet-spot" that causes the can holder to hang on like mad.
Lastly, just to save the paint, I put some black felt under the bottom of the magnet, and a 6x6 piece of clear 3M plastic on the tank over the magnetic sweet-spot.
It works great, and sometimes freaks people out because I can ride along, at speed, with a drink delicately balanced on my "tank".
Jim
I'm planning to do this to my recently acquired ST1100P next.
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