I saw a suzuki bandit yesterday two up with luggage, the rider and pillion were on the larger side and the tyre looked under pressure or just looked down with the load. This got me thinking about the "all up " loading capacity of the GTR, I looked in the owners manual and MR K states, rider, pillion, luggage , accessories = no more than 228kg. My full loading would be rider 100kg, pillion 60kg, luggage etc 25kg = 185kg giving me 43kg within the limit, ( although maybe allow a further 10kg for riding clothing etc). a rather generous allowance i think, has anyone else checked their fully loaded capacity ??.
Yup..... usually 8 bottles of Stella Cidre, and 6 Tequila Slammers... :gunsmilie: thas me fully loaded and incapacitated... :mfr_lol:
now i know why you chose a tuono :mfr_lol: :mfr_lol:
I thought that the fully laden advice was nice and generous .... I'd estimate that me and her and full luggage for a trip would equal about 180 kg or there abouts.....so no problems.
I do recall a couple on an old 1150 GS.. I reckon there must have been 250kg between them not counting the luggage ... and they managed to go everywhere on that bike, complete with tent and full camping gear .... Probably why GS final drives are so iffy :rolleyes:
QuoteI looked in the owners manual and MR K states, rider, pillion, luggage , accessories = no more than 228kg.
Really?? I had omitted to read that... During my last trip of >4000Kms we MUST have exceeded that... by a considerable amount... :whistling:
Rosbif -- bottom of page 22
Yeah.. And the little sticker in the top case says max 3Kg (IIRC) and max 130km/h...
The 3Kg was way exceeded... Plus, the missus leaning her back on it.
As for max weight allowance, how does that compare to other similar bikes?
The big question is:
Should I save up for a Goldwing or just eat less pasta? :popcorn:
If you get a goldwing you will need to eat MORE pasta, you will need to rest your belly on your knees with the king and queen seat, and the stereo playing really loud, and of course the cut off with the goldwing logo, and Meet all your like minded wingdingers.
On Another note i stuff the panniers and top box to the limit, where i can just about close the lids, must admit though i only put the lighter stuff in the top box.
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Hmmmmm. Maybe when I retire... Which isn't for a while. Or when I collapse the GTR suspension...
Don't panic, yer all quite safe.
Myself (160Kg), my partner (100Kg), plus a weekends luggage, tent, airbed and sundry other rubbish was carried by the GTR1400 with no problems other than the inevitable slow speed wobbles & weaves.
The suspension did not collapse, the rear subframe is fine, and neither of the panniers came off. :banana:
Unlike my old GTR1000 the centrestand didn't touch down on bumpy left turns and once up and rolling she handled pretty well, not that I was at peg scraping velocities.
So if yer all up weight is less than 300Kg (plus the bike itself) then I think you'll find it can handle it.
That said, can you? I'm a big bloke and can flatfoot the GTR easily and reverse whilst sat on the bike.
All of those "limits" and "warnings" are for LEGAL LIABILITY purposes, they are not put there by engineers worried that ya might overload it. Pretty much all bikes now have them since the Hayabusa's suffered cracked rear subframes in the late 90s.
Well that's mighty reassuring!!
I can easily handle the bike with flat feet and reversing etc, fully loaded with Pillion... as long as it's not on my parent's gravel driveway...
With all that lot on, I don't hoon around enough to get any scraping going on, although I did once completely misjudge a kind of small bridge on a back road in the Massif Centrale, and got both wheels off the deck. It came back down with a fair old bang, but no harm done. Panniers stayed on, as did the missus etc.
From personal experience and by the sound of it from yours too, it seems to be built like a :tank:
Moff to make pasta now... Diet over :banana: