{"id":30034,"date":"2022-01-18T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=30034"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:46:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:46:04","slug":"thoughts-yoshimura-aluminum-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20220118\/blogs\/thoughts\/thoughts-yoshimura-aluminum-tank","title":{"rendered":"[Thoughts] Yoshimura Aluminum Tank Is Pretty Great~"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A savior for discontinued fuel tanks! The Beater aluminum tank.
Z-series bikes and others have steel reproductions available, which is a lifesaver, but for other models it’s tough~, right? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy an aluminum tank and paint it!
That’s… exactly like the feeling of “pants made in Italy”… <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

When you swap to an aluminum tank, things get lighter… the weight…

Your wallet too… gets lighter… relatively speaking… ( \uff9f\u0414\uff9f) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Light and rust-free, so it’s incredibly appreciated.
However, there have been past incidents where aluminum tanks rusted.
A used bike that came from up north had a rare aluminum tank installed, and when you opened the fuel cap…
mold-like fuzz grew…

It turned out that iron particles from the fuel cap had fallen into the tank and red rust had grown all jagged inside…
It’s rough~ <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aluminum tanks are very soft~, so honestly they dent easily.
There’s that feeling of “Wait, didn’t the tank dent get bigger?” happening or not happening.
If it has a curved shape it’s probably fine, but a shape like the Z1R might need a bit of caution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m not sure about recent ones, but there’s also the interaction with the Newton cap, and I’ve had concerns about breather overflow too…
OEM really is great… I think to myself wistfully.

Even though I’ve written all this, there’s no doubt it’s a part that delivers quite a bit of satisfaction.
And when you do dent it, the emotional letdown is pretty big too, so you have to think about cost-effectiveness… The Yoshimura logo is so cool (*’\u03c9’*)
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A savior for discontinued fuel tanks! The Beater aluminum tank. Z-series bikes and others have steel reproductions available, which is a lifesaver, but for other models it’s tough~, right? Buy an aluminum tank and paint it! That’s… exactly like the feeling of “pants made in Italy”…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[269],"class_list":["post-30034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}