Carrying a motorbike

johng1974

All, was thinking to make a raising rack to carry a 500cc bike on back of the chevy.

I have never found the weight plate on the rv though Sad

I have looked..

this RV looks identical to mine, same engine and sure the same chassis..

asprn

Google is your friend. Wink

johng1974

Thanks Dougie.. yep have got the weight at 174 dry.. wikipedia useful too Wink

Bike is a GS500 Suzuki.. I wanted to take it for a personal reason, as it belonged to a long time friend who used to bike with me (and also did some camper van tours of europe) he is no more now Sad

and I thought he would have liked to see his bike being used in this way...

but... if it's taking half my available payload.. not so sure..

John

kijana

Hi John

Well, the Suzy is definately a better bet than the Viffer is, weightwise!

I did 40k odd miles on my 750 FV. It was a lot of good things, but light wasn't one of them!

I'm looking at one of these for putting on a rack sometime in the future. Road legal, claimed dry weight of 72kg, and looks a hoot!

johng1974

Hi Kijana

like it

yep Viffer def. too heavy as well, shame..

I guess an easy option is a trailer..

kijana

Hi John

Yes, I spose a trailer is one option.

Another would be to get someone else to drive the rig, and you ride the bike Razz

A bike is the one thing I miss fulltiming. I must get out & hire one for a quick blast soon. . .

Bruce

johng1974

well well..

Went for MOT on Fri, and passed Wink

First thing was the weigh-in.. last year with full LPG and Petrol, was 4300 approx..

This time, half petrol and half lpg, but full fresh water, 4620!! Sad

A few extra items may have been on the van but struggling to work out where the weight came from ,,,

worst still, the apparant MAM (guess... from the ebay RV in my first posting) , is 4560KG..

So, to summarise, An american RV with one passenger and generally full cupboards etc is overweight? can't be true... it was designed to sleep 6!

How can/would I (or police, DVLA) find the MAM of a 25 year old van with carries no weight plate? Dougie...

(will try another google attempt now)

John

johng1974

Well I am a much happier bunny today Wink

I looked at the 'Chilton' manual that came with van (A proper version of what haynes now are) and it usefully picks-apart the VIN of my van, saying it was made in Canada :O but more importantly, it has a J designation, in the corresponding table that = 10,000-11,000 lbs Very Happy

so being 10164 lbs at the weigh in is no problemo....

quite why I have a range for the GVW is anyones guess.