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Title: Le Mans Wet Weights
Post by: Kristian on February 22, 2018, 01:11:50 AM
Gents,

Since I've posted weights for various Guzzis, I might as well continue for the few more I have. I collect reviews of favorite brands, usually the great Brooklands Performance Portfolios; these numbers are actual measurements from American reviews:

850 Le Mans: 513 Lbs. (233 Kg.)
Le Mans CX100 (U.S. Le Mans II version): 530 Lbs. (240.9 Kg.)
850 Le Mans III: 531 Lbs. (241.3 Kg.)
1000 Le Mans (IV): 540.5 Lbs. (245.7 Kg.)
V11 Le Mans: 557 Lbs. (253 Kg.)

Kristian
Title: Re: Le Mans Wet Weights
Post by: Chuck in Indiana on February 22, 2018, 04:37:48 PM
FWIW, I weighed the Mighty Scura dry on aircraft scales. 505 lbs.
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V11 Le Mans: 557 Lbs. (253 Kg.)
I have a hard time imagining putting 52 lbs. of fuel in it. <shrug>
I take all published weights with a grain of salt.
Title: Re: Le Mans Wet Weights
Post by: Kristian on February 22, 2018, 04:56:41 PM
FWIW, I weighed the Mighty Scura dry on aircraft scales. 505 lbs. I have a hard time imagining putting 52 lbs. of fuel in it. <shrug>
I take all published weights with a grain of salt.

The weight given was for a Le Mans.
Title: Re: Le Mans Wet Weights
Post by: Chuck in Indiana on February 22, 2018, 06:04:37 PM
The weight given was for a Le Mans.

Yeah..V11 LeMans.
Title: Re: Le Mans Wet Weights
Post by: LowRyter on February 22, 2018, 06:04:56 PM
5 gal. fuel in a plastic can feels like 50# when I lift it.  :smiley:  So guess all these LeMans weight limits are with full fluids.

maybe 30lb?
Title: Re: Le Mans Wet Weights
Post by: LowRyter on February 22, 2018, 06:06:01 PM
Yeah..V11 LeMans.

more tupperware than a Scura....add 30lb of gas to that.
Title: Re: Le Mans Wet Weights
Post by: LowRyter on February 22, 2018, 06:28:27 PM
Add motor, tranny, rearend oils, brake fluids, battery.  :smiley:

I assume he weighed when it was only low on gas. 
Title: Re: Le Mans Wet Weights
Post by: Chuck in Indiana on February 22, 2018, 06:30:59 PM
Yeah, that was all fluids, battery, empty tank.
Title: Re: Le Mans Wet Weights
Post by: LowRyter on February 22, 2018, 07:07:42 PM
I thought 'dry weight' was bike w/o fuel but every thing else.  And not whether the bike is shipped by air.

really? 

It was Chuck weighing his own bike. 
Title: Re: Le Mans Wet Weights
Post by: Guzzistajohn on February 22, 2018, 07:18:20 PM
Do people still ride those old LeMans?

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Title: Re: Le Mans Wet Weights
Post by: guzzisteve on February 22, 2018, 07:20:10 PM
Weighed my LM3 in 85 while it was still stock & full of gas it was 510lbs on the grain elevator scale in town.
Title: Re: Le Mans Wet Weights
Post by: Arizona Wayne on February 22, 2018, 09:49:59 PM
really? 

It was Chuck weighing his own bike.

My experience is a bike shipped by air needs to  have no fluids in it.  I shipped a MC motor by air and it had to be oil free.
Title: Re: Le Mans Wet Weights
Post by: oldbike54 on February 22, 2018, 10:25:55 PM
Do people still ride those old LeMans?

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 Only a few , er , eccentrics  :evil:

 Dusty
Title: Re: Le Mans Wet Weights
Post by: Matteo on February 23, 2018, 12:03:54 AM

 Only a few , er , eccentrics  :evil:

 Dusty

Count us in!

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Title: Re: Le Mans Wet Weights
Post by: MarkPell on February 23, 2018, 12:05:47 PM

 Only a few , er , eccentrics  :evil:

 Dusty

 :1:  I like that!!
Title: Re: Le Mans Wet Weights
Post by: Darren Williams on February 23, 2018, 12:22:47 PM
maybe 30lb?

Yep, a US gallon of gasoline weight is 6.073 lbs. Depending on additives that may change a small amount.
Title: Re: Le Mans Wet Weights
Post by: PeteS on February 23, 2018, 12:54:19 PM
Count us in!

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Us as well.

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Pete
Title: Re: Le Mans Wet Weights
Post by: sdcr on February 23, 2018, 02:34:28 PM
Us as well.

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Pete


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Every other ride:)
Title: Re: Le Mans Wet Weights
Post by: lrutt on February 23, 2018, 02:49:30 PM
Do people still ride those old LeMans?

(http://thumb.ibb.co/mfnnQx/garage_001.jpg) (http://ibb.co/mfnnQx)


Mine gets exercised once in a while. Was blasting down I4 a month ago doing about 80mph thinking this is pretty amazing, 41 year old bike just cruising along effortlessly....exc ept for that damned stiff throttle (77 850 Lemans).
Title: Re: Le Mans Wet Weights
Post by: Arizona Wayne on February 23, 2018, 07:54:46 PM
Mine gets exercised once in a while. Was blasting down I4 a month ago doing about 80mph thinking this is pretty amazing, 41 year old bike just cruising along effortlessly....exc ept for that damned stiff throttle (77 850 Lemans).



Throttle Rocker takes care of that for $10?   :smiley:
Title: Re: Le Mans Wet Weights
Post by: Guzzistajohn on February 23, 2018, 08:35:12 PM
Mine gets exercised once in a while. Was blasting down I4 a month ago doing about 80mph thinking this is pretty amazing, 41 year old bike just cruising along effortlessly....exc ept for that damned stiff throttle (77 850 Lemans).

It’s a man’s throttle  :thumb:
Title: Re: Le Mans Wet Weights
Post by: SED on February 23, 2018, 08:44:45 PM
We're in! 

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Title: Re: Le Mans Wet Weights
Post by: Guzzistajohn on February 23, 2018, 09:09:56 PM

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New powder coating on the wheels bearings and tires  :laugh:
Title: Re: Le Mans Wet Weights
Post by: Darren Williams on February 24, 2018, 08:41:21 AM

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New powder coating on the wheels bearings and tires  :laugh:

Aren't you gettin' all fancy and stuff!   :wink:

Next you'll be makin' me wash my bike before I can ride with you. Lowryter said something about my dirty bike when we were out and about last weekend. I may be starting to get a complex.
Title: Re: Le Mans Wet Weights
Post by: Chuck in Indiana on February 24, 2018, 08:45:19 AM
Oooo.. shiny.  :cool:
Title: Re: Le Mans Wet Weights
Post by: LowRyter on February 24, 2018, 09:58:23 AM
Aren't you gettin' all fancy and stuff!   :wink:

Next you'll be makin' me wash my bike before I can ride with you. Lowryter said something about my dirty bike when we were out and about last weekend. I may be starting to get a complex.

Darren has a big assortment of motorcycles.  One for every day of the week, perhaps every day of the month?  Anyway, each of these bikes have to be dressed for each particular occasion.  For example, his Yamaha 900 and 1300 Touring bikes stay highway clean, while his Truxton is museum clean, but his Beemer GS has to have the proper amount of mud and bugs on it to be fashionable.

I draw the line when we have to dig up mud to cake the GS though.  No one would actually ride that 600lb behemoth in the mud.   :boxing:
Title: Re: Le Mans Wet Weights
Post by: Guzzistajohn on February 24, 2018, 01:07:23 PM
Yes, Darren is the episode of style, I think actually has his dirt imported from Dakar 👌

I finished my assembly work about madnight last night, I did get in one neighboorhood shake down cruise before the monsoon hit

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Title: Re: Le Mans Wet Weights
Post by: Darren Williams on February 24, 2018, 03:37:20 PM
Yes, Darren is the episode of style, I think actually has his dirt imported from Dakar 👌

Boy, you guys are full of it! My dirt is authentic central Oklahoma red clay. Once stuck on , never comes off (pressure washers be damned). I did ride in the rain Monday, but the clay held fast!   :bike-037:
Title: Re: Le Mans Wet Weights
Post by: Vince in Milwaukee on February 24, 2018, 03:43:43 PM
Weighed my LM3 in 85 while it was still stock & full of gas it was 510lbs on the grain elevator scale in town.

Thank you for this info.  I've been telling folks that my 3 weighs in at @550 full of gas for years.  Now I can tell them it weighs just a bit more than 500 and have confidence in that number.   
Title: Re: Le Mans Wet Weights
Post by: Kristian on February 24, 2018, 04:03:21 PM
Thank you for this info.  I've been telling folks that my 3 weighs in at @550 full of gas for years.  Now I can tell them it weighs just a bit more than 500 and have confidence in that number.   

530 Lbs. wet according to period British and US reviews.
Title: Re: Le Mans Wet Weights
Post by: LowRyter on February 24, 2018, 04:21:27 PM
Yes, Darren is the episode of style, I think actually has his dirt imported from Dakar 👌

I finished my assembly work about madnight last night, I did get in one neighboorhood shake down cruise before the monsoon hit

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gots to get me a Dead Head emblem.