DaveFromCanada wrote on 05/07/24 at 17:11:22:I weigh 270 lbs, and my wife is 200 lbs. I can't afford a bigger bike, but I read that my Savage has a 400 lb weight limit.
Besides the obvious weight loss we are already working on, do you have any ideas about whether the bike can haul that kind of weight?
Would a pair of used sporster shocks in the previous post make doubling up for us feasible?
Right now I only ride the bike solo
There isn’t enough preload or spring rate available for nearly 500 pounds of passengers. You feel this as a punishing ride since the shock is always in a fully compressed state.
Here is my concern, with the bike so out of balance with a rearward bias, the front tire is unloaded which will cause instability and potentially head shake. Loaded two-up you run the risk of the front end suddenly losing traction.