Bike - 2007 GS, wet weight is 225kg and gross weight is 435kg which gives me 210kg.
Fitted extras are vario panniers with top box, BMW engine bars, ABS, ASC, heated grips, TPM, Handgurads, Navigator III which all adds up to 40kg.
So now down to 170kg.
I weigh, honestly, far too much (Yes, I'm a fatty!) at 100kg, plus clothes, boots, helmet = at least 110kg + wife suited and booted at 80kg.
Which all adds up to 455kg (this is before we put anything in the panniers or tank bag!). So we are starting at 20kg over the gross weight.
I figure a conservative estimate when packed for a two week trip is that we are 50kg over.
In truth, I figure for the past 25 years of touring on GSs I will have been over weight but just never looked at the number before and have never had any issues.
Are we alone, or are other loaded GSs the same and what implications?
Fitted extras are vario panniers with top box, BMW engine bars, ABS, ASC, heated grips, TPM, Handgurads, Navigator III which all adds up to 40kg.
So now down to 170kg.
I weigh, honestly, far too much (Yes, I'm a fatty!) at 100kg, plus clothes, boots, helmet = at least 110kg + wife suited and booted at 80kg.
Which all adds up to 455kg (this is before we put anything in the panniers or tank bag!). So we are starting at 20kg over the gross weight.
I figure a conservative estimate when packed for a two week trip is that we are 50kg over.
In truth, I figure for the past 25 years of touring on GSs I will have been over weight but just never looked at the number before and have never had any issues.
Are we alone, or are other loaded GSs the same and what implications?
, a weeks worth of food, water and clothes plus the Redverz tent and I was absolutely well over. I had no issues with handling really, except the headlight pointing to the sky a few times on hard acceleration
I have stopped worrying about it now, the GS is pretty much indestructible 
