Bare Frame Weight? (T, T3, G5, Convert)

[Groover]

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.

[radguzzi]

Groover,
I just went out and weighed a bare Tonti frame, no lowers, no swing arm... 31 pounds.

Best,
Rob

[fotoguzzi]

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.

[radguzzi]

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.

[Groover]

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.

[Mark Dasher]

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...   

[Antietam Classic Cycle]

There's always Fastenal 3PL too. https://www.fastenal.com/en/22/third-party-logistics-(3pl)

[fotoguzzi]

around $70 is what it cost me.. fading memory but I think UPS would have taken it unwrapped for near $200..