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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Groover on January 30, 2017, 11:42:00 AM

Title: Bare Frame Weight? (T, T3, G5, Convert)
Post by: Groover on January 30, 2017, 11:42:00 AM: Does anyone happen to know what the weight is of a bare Tonti frame? (no lowers, just the upper 1-piece/part) I need it for a shipping estimate.

Thanks for the assistance.
Title: Re: Bare Frame Weight? (T, T3, G5, Convert)
Post by: radguzzi on January 30, 2017, 05:43:35 PM: Groover,
I just went out and weighed a bare Tonti frame, no lowers, no swing arm... 31 pounds.

Best,
Rob
Title: Re: Bare Frame Weight? (T, T3, G5, Convert)
Post by: fotoguzzi on January 30, 2017, 05:48:07 PM: Interested to know your shipper and cost when you do it. I shipped a frame via Greyhound once.. took a real circuitous route to go from Mn to WY.. all the way to Kansas City then Salt lake city and back to Wyoming.. took a couple weeks.
Title: Re: Bare Frame Weight? (T, T3, G5, Convert)
Post by: radguzzi on January 30, 2017, 05:56:15 PM: Quote from: fotoguzzi on January 30, 2017, 05:48:07 PM
Interested to know your shipper and cost when you do it. I shipped a frame via Greyhound once.. took a real circuitous route to go from Mn to WY.. all the way to Kansas City then Salt lake city and back to Wyoming.. took a couple weeks.

About fifteen years ago or maybe longer, I had a guy send a complete '77 LeMans to me in Maine from Michigan. The fellow that bought it had it sent to me in a total of seventeen (17) boxes... I got to know the UPS guy really well. Frame was actually boxed up, all bits and pieces, engine tranny, final drive in separate boxes... must have cost him a mint.

I restored the LeMans for the owner and he still rides it.
Title: Re: Bare Frame Weight? (T, T3, G5, Convert)
Post by: Groover on January 31, 2017, 07:27:12 AM: Radguzzi, thank you very much for taking the time to do that.

I'm currently debating on getting a frame for a possible project in my head, from Minnesota actually and needed a more accurate weight for a Greyhound shipping quote (I was guessing 25 pounds based on a weight plate I had laying around under a pile of dust with all my other exercise equipment) If I get this, I'll share my experience with this shipment. I've had some vintage chairs (for the house) shipped to me using Greyhound and it did take a long time (over a month if I remember correctly). They did arrive nicely wrapped in a ton of saran-type wrap, then boxed, then Saran-wrapped again. I think to ship this frame it would be somewhere around $70 according to the numbers I'm using. (50-100 value)

Thanks again.
Title: Re: Bare Frame Weight? (T, T3, G5, Convert)
Post by: Mark Dasher on January 31, 2017, 03:19:42 PM: Quote from: Groover on January 31, 2017, 07:27:12 AM
Radguzzi, thank you very much for taking the time to do that.

I'm currently debating on getting a frame for a possible project in my head, from Minnesota actually and needed a more accurate weight for a Greyhound shipping quote (I was guessing 25 pounds based on a weight plate I had laying around under a pile of dust with all my other exercise equipment) If I get this, I'll share my experience with this shipment. I've had some vintage chairs (for the house) shipped to me using Greyhound and it did take a long time (over a month if I remember correctly). They did arrive nicely wrapped in a ton of saran-type wrap, then boxed, then Saran-wrapped again. I think to ship this frame it would be somewhere around $70 according to the numbers I'm using. (50-100 value)

Thanks again.

31 lbs isn't that much. Have you checked with Fedex Freight? Or ABF? Might be the cheaper (Guzzi) way... :wink:
Title: Re: Bare Frame Weight? (T, T3, G5, Convert)
Post by: Antietam Classic Cycle on January 31, 2017, 04:14:17 PM: There's always Fastenal 3PL too. https://www.fastenal.com/en/22/third-party-logistics-(3pl)
Title: Re: Bare Frame Weight? (T, T3, G5, Convert)
Post by: fotoguzzi on January 31, 2017, 06:47:17 PM: around $70 is what it cost me.. fading memory but I think UPS would have taken it unwrapped for near $200..