Stress fracture in the fuel tank

[JimF]

I took my 250 for a several hundred mile weekend jaunt.

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The fellows I was riding with were amazed that the 250 was keeping right up with their BMWs and KLRs with at least three times the displacement.

The only bad thing that happened was a small pin-hole of a tank leak that started a week or two before the trip accelrated into a crack. Fortunately the crack was horizontal and high up such that as long as I did not fill the tank too close to the level of the crack I could abide the crack.

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Or course now I am faced with a tank repair and a repaint...

And today the 750 Sport decided to join the club with what apparently is a carb issue, so all three Ducatis are now in sick bay.

[graeme]

Hi Jim,
Bummer,
Maybe the tank has been hit there in the past?
I've seen stranger vibration related metal jetisoning
graeme