How much does a connie weigh?

[Uglydog56]

With empty cases, full gas?  I bought a bus that's converted to an RV.  My plan is to buy one of those receiver mounted motorcycle carriers and ship it to the address of the bus so it will be waiting for me, then ride out and drive the bus back.  I found a carrier rated to 600lbs, and I'm hoping that's enough to work.

[T Cro ®]

Nope; she tips that scale......

595 Bone Dry....

680 With All Fluids On Board.

[Two Skies]

That puts mine around 750 Lbs with all the stuff I pack in my bags and trunk.  No wonder it's such a pain to get upright when it tips over!

[Nosmo]

Don't forget to add in what you "normally" carry that's sort of like your fixed load. 

+ Farkles

+ junk inna trunk

+ your tool kit

+ mouse turds under the seat

+ road crud under the engine and swing arm, etc.

A couple of years ago I stopped at the county certified scales at the transfer station and weighed my 2003 Connie with 1/2 tank fuel and the above stuff and myself (I was right at 200 lbs then with ATGATT, about 185 nekkid) and we came in at 920.  All those little things add up.

[Boomer]

I weighed Otto (C10) in at just over the half ton.
With me, full tank, full sidebags, trunk, tankbag and tent on the back seat we totaled 509Kg (1122lbs).
The guy at the weighbridge said he sees Goldwings quite often but rarely sees any other bikes.

[Cavosie]

When the bike is standing still, and at an unwise lean angle, it weighs approximately 10 tons.  Trust me on this; I know.

[snarf]

When the bike is standing still, and at an unwise lean angle, it weighs approximately 10 tons.  Trust me on this; I know.

This is true.  The weight is proportional to its lean angle, she starts gaining weight rapidly at anything lower than 79 degrees of lean

[Nosmo]

When the bike is standing still, and at an unwise lean angle, it weighs approximately 10 tons.  Trust me on this; I know.

Very true, and here's the science behind it:

Motorcycles don't obey normal laws of mass and inertia.  Einstein (or was it Frank N. Stein) said that mass increases with the square of the velocity, but we all know that the faster a Connie goes, the lighter it seems.   Now, if acted upon by the relative anti-magnetic fields of an inverted non-Euclidian gamma-factored universe, we can readily see that a Concours at rest, with lean-induced quasi-inertial gravitic attraction (not canceled by spendicular thermofaction) can easily obtain infinite mass. 

And THAT is why you need tip-over bars.

[RFH87_Connie]

Can we get a "Like" button on the forum?

[Uglydog56]

I do have crash bars, and they have paid for themselves in yards and parking lots about twice over already.

I also found an inexpensive 1000lb motorcycle carrier for the bus, that hopefully isn't cheap.  We will see.

In completely unrelated news, the wife and I are preparing to get rid of the albatross known as a house and full time in an RV.  Two weeks until I pick it up, I'm excited!

[stevewfl]

I hope the C10s don't weight as much as my C14. It weighs more than a dump truck full of lead.

[roadrunner322]

My manual says 597lbs. dry.  Gasoline weighs almost exactly 6 lbs. per gallon, so a full tank adds 45lbs.  Add oil, coolant, lube,etc.