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  • #1

    Have you weighed your bike.

    The time is coming to buy new tires and while talking with Jim down at the local Honda shop, he referred to my bike as being slightly Portly. So I took my bike and my pride over to the scales and weighed them. With the three of us on the scales it came out to 940lbs. Subtracting for myself, tools and equipment and pride the bike comes out to around 750lbs., but the gross weight was what I needed because that was what I will be running most of the time, and if i need to lighten the load I'll leave my pride home.
    Fastmover
    "Just plant us in the damn garden with the stupid
    lion". SHL
    78 XS1100e
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  • #2
    Been thinking

    about weighing mine too. I have a FULL bagger, tools, extra clothes and most anything I think I might need on the road. I've been estimation mine to weigh around 700 lbs without me on board.
    You can't stay young forever, but you can be immature for the rest of your life...

    '78E "Pathfinder" Show bike...
    Lovingly restored by Dave Delzell
    Drilled airbox
    Tkat fork brace
    Hardly mufflers
    late model carbs
    Newer style fuses
    Oil pressure guage
    Custom security system
    Stainless braid brake lines

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    • #3
      good idea

      That's probably a good idea, especially if you are going on any long rides this summer. The spec chart weight for a bare bike is 573lbs. and the max load is 488lbs so with rider and full dress it wouldn't be hard to go over. plus you might need to increase you tire pressure.
      Fastmover
      "Just plant us in the damn garden with the stupid
      lion". SHL
      78 XS1100e

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      • #4
        I always did find it funny that my bike like this...





        Weighs in at about the same as the neighbors COMPLETE dry weight GSXR 1000. lol.

        I don't know what the ratio is, but a 1,000 pound bike doesn't have to have a 1,000 pound rated back tire. It shares the load with the front tire's rating... but the weight isn't equally distributed between the two. The back takes the brunt of the weight... just not sure what the percentage is.


        Tod
        Try your hardest to be the kind of person your dog thinks you are.

        You can live to be 100, as long as you give up everything that would make you want to live to be 100!

        Current bikes:
        '06 Suzuki DR650
        *'82 XJ1100 with the 1179 kit. "Mad Maxim"
        '82 XJ1100 Completely stock fixer-upper
        '82 XJ1100 Bagger fixer-upper
        '82 XJ1100 Motor/frame and lots of boxes of parts
        '82 XJ1100 Parts bike
        '81 XS1100 Special
        '81 YZ250
        '80 XS850 Special
        '80 XR100
        *Crashed/Totalled, still own

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        • #5
          Hmm, I actually did take Tsunami out to the landfill once and had them weigh it on their scale. If it weren't for CRS, I could tell you how much it weighed...
          Ken Talbot

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          • #6
            Hey Ken, our Venturers scale at 680lbs. with half tank of fuel.
            81H Venturer1100 "The Bentley" (on steroids) 97 Yamaha YZ250(age reducer) 92 Honda ST1100 "Twisty"(touring rocket) Age is relative to the number of seconds counted 'airing' out an 85ft. table-top.

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            • #7
              I weighed my E before Big Island "Deuce".
              With the Pacifico fairing, hard bags, trunk (all empty) and a full tank of gas......
              It weighed 685 lbs
              Pat Kelly
              <p-lkelly@sbcglobal.net>

              1978 XS1100E (The Force)
              1980 XS1100LG (The Dark Side)
              2007 Dodge Ram 2500 quad-cab long-bed (Wifes ride)
              1999 Suburban (The Ship)
              1994 Dodge Spirit (Son #1)
              1968 F100 (Valentine)

              "No one is totally useless. They can always be used as a bad example"

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              • #8
                Tubby

                I weighed mine at a truck scales with a full tank of gas. It weighed right at 640 lbs. I have a full front fairing.
                Bill

                1980 XS 1100 Special
                1979 650 Special - sold (Stupid Me!)

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                • #9
                  I had my first XS1100 on a truck scale in 1978. It was 820 lbs, as a full dress bike with all my normal riding gear in it, and IIRC me off to the side. The scales will only go down to 20lb divisions, so it's plus or minus from there.
                  Ray Matteis
                  KE6NHG
                  XS1100 E '78 (winter project)
                  XS1100 SF Bob Jones worked on it!

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                  • #10
                    Mine is an '80G with full Venture tour package

                    With the rainsuit in the saddle bags and a few odds and ends it wieghs 310kgs (682lbs) on the scale.
                    Nice day, if it doesn't rain...

                    '05 ST1300
                    '83 502/502 Monte Carlo for sale/trade

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