Max load with Pillion?

[boredus]

Hi All,
I am going down to Cornwall next week with a passenger. I have looked in the manual and cant see anything that mentions the max load the bike should take. So Rider + Pillion = ?

Does anyone know what that would be?

thanks
Ian

[Baggy]

It doesn't say in my SV manual but the manuals for other bikes i have had
always seemed to mention 30 stone

[kwak zzr]

i took my cousin pillion on my gsxr6 yesterday i'm nearly 12 stone and he's 18 stone lol, lets just say my performance was zapped!

[boredus]

Ok, I was looking in the service manual earlier but I have the owners manual that came with the bike as well. It says that the G.V.W ( Gross Vehicle Weight) is a maximum of 400KG or 885lbs at a cold tire pressure of 33 psi front and 36psi rear.
G.V.W is the combined verhicle/riders/accessories all added up.

So on the 03 sv650s with full fairing I am going for a safe 200KG wet. That leaves 200KG for myself and my brother. Add your leathers etc to that and a lot of people are not going to be within that G.V.W

Now some people laugh this off but I happen to know about a case many years ago with a certain bike that literally flew off the road and planted itself in a large road sign. The rider and pillion were badly injured and tried to take the manufacturer to court because it was the vehicles fault that the chassis and suspension collapsed under heavy breaking on a bumpy road near the bend. After all the investigions were complete, it was found that rider + pillion were about 80 over the GVW for that specific ( 250cc) and it was all thrown out.

If anyone is ever interested in reading all the drab about the weight etc the warnings are on page 4 of the suzuki owners manual.

[sunshine]

max the preload in the rear shock, and you and your brother need to stop eating the pies it will be fine.

[Specialone]

One thing to mention, they factor in a huge compensation on the GVW, they wouldnt print it close to the actual cos it would be too close and you would get varying results with a huge number of factors, road conditions, weather, temp, condition of bike, age etc etc

Unless you and your pillion are massive pie eaters you wont have a problem, ie both 18 stone plus.
You will also ride the bike differently when fully loaded, braking earlier etc
Bikes are generally made a lot stronger these days with lighter materials, imo dont worry so much about it.