New bike has (literarily) come home, but what is the weight?

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Shed space during the winter is not sufficient. Fortunately I have a very understanding wife (and it is her Monster😉)
I intend to modify the SFC with more modern brakes, rubber etc and lower the weight, but keeping the overall appearance quite original.
Like the 916 it will be a road bike that I will take to the racetrack once in a while.
For the weight reduction I would like to know the present dry weight. Aiming point, when completed, would be a dry weight just below 200 kg, and now it gets a bit tricky:
Our bikes are not exactly lightweight. How I managed to jumpstart my former RGS (alone and with luggage, when starting a trip to Southern Europe) is still a mystery to me. A lot of it is technique and I was quite a bit younger as well!
The term dry weight is used very differently by various company’s: Some will give the weight without any fluids at all, and some will even not include the battery weight. In my mind (and the value I want to use as a reference point), dry weight is the bike ready to go, but with an empty fuel tank. The figure I have seen most often is 238 KG / 524,7 LBS. Trouble is that I don’t know what’s included in that number.
Therefore some fool (yours truly) attempted to put one wheel at a time on a bathing scale while putting the other wheel on a piece of wood to have the bike level.
DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!- especially if you are alone and recovering from a mild stroke with poor balance. The eagle eyed can see the scar on the passenger seat hump. Later on my wife helped and I got a number.
For the time being I will keep that figure to myself.
A lot of explanation leading up to my question: Have any of you guys any precise measurements of the weight of the 1000 SFC?

Best regards

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Congratulations with your SFC Niels. Looking forward to see it one day. I just showed the pictures to my wife and suggested that I also bring some of my bikes in to our house, but I think it is necessary for me to have some help from your wife to talk to my wife.😉😉
Best regards
Preben
 
chrisk said:
🙄 Me too, lets put their washing machines outside, that should get the conversation started.….. are you interested in sharing a house together?
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My wife, to my amazement suggested we move the washing machine to a shed outside. I’m still in recovery mode…
 
You’re probably correct, but there again, perhaps she’s really has decided the Victorians had the right idea when it came to laundries Away from the house. 🤔
however, on a slightly more serious note I’ve been seriously considering buying back one of my old SFCs but the bulk of the bloody thing is ‘weighing’ on my mind. loosing a serious amount of weight generally also means lightening your wallet too, and there’s a feckin laundry that i may have to sort out first. 😕
 
Andy J said:
the Victorians had the right idea when it came to laundries Away from the house. 🤔
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I hadn't thought about it before, but there must have been an evolution of laundries moving closer to the house since Victorian times.

My house is post-Victorian, being built in the early 1930s (Edwardian?). The laundry is actually part of the house, but there is no access to it from inside. You have to go out the back door and then in the laundry door. So it's a halfway stage in the development of an inside laundry. I'm not sure what the washing procedure was before washing machines were invented, but there used to be a hearth and chimney where there was a wood-fired copper trough for producing hot water. I removed the chimney when I put a new roof on the house. Recovered a heap of bricks out of it.
 
Dellortoman said:
I hadn't thought about it before, but there must have been an evolution of laundries moving closer to the house since Victorian times.

My house is post-Victorian, being built in the early 1930s (Edwardian?). The laundry is actually part of the house, but there is no access to it from inside. You have to go out the back door and then in the laundry door. So it's a halfway stage in the development of an inside laundry. I'm not sure what the washing procedure was before washing machines were invented, but there used to be a hearth and chimney where there was a wood-fired copper trough for producing hot water. I removed the chimney when I put a new roof on the house. Recovered a heap of bricks out of it.
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Washing procedure in the past was sending the women out to the river to get the washing done whilst the men drank.
Hasn't changed much, only there are washing machines now.
Paul
 
Dellortoman said:
I hadn't thought about it before, but there must have been an evolution of laundries moving closer to the house since Victorian times.

My house is post-Victorian, being built in the early 1930s (Edwardian?). The laundry is actually part of the house, but there is no access to it from inside. You have to go out the back door and then in the laundry door. So it's a halfway stage in the development of an inside laundry. I'm not sure what the washing procedure was before washing machines were invented, but there used to be a hearth and chimney where there was a wood-fired copper trough for producing hot water. I removed the chimney when I put a new roof on the house. Recovered a heap of bricks out of it.
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In an old terraced stone cottage I used to own which dated from 1739 there was a communal wash shed out the back and inside was a small stone oven which a large fitted iron bowl on top presumably for washing purposes.
 
Official dry weight I think was 240kg, but as you said - who knows what is included... I think it might have been with Oil and battery but without gas. Keep in mind, the original battery was a liquid acid battery, which weights I think 2-3 kilos more than a gel battery. If that is replaced by a LiFePo4 accu, this means another 7,5 Kilos difference...

Your bike is not completely comparable with a standard 1000 SFC as it was delivered ex factory anymore in terms of weight, as it also has different mufflers, different shocks, different headers etc., which all in all plays into the weight of the bike.

We'll speak in detail when you come over to my place in January ;-)
 
You are absolutely right Lothar, and we will have plenty to talk about😀

Nobody seems to have any accurate information, so this is what I have so far:

Bike weight as shown (tank empty) measured level, one wheel at a time 114,7kg + 128,6kg for a total of 243,3kg
minus the jota silencers (1531g x 2). -3,062kg
plus OEM silencers (2858g x 2). +5,716kg
plus passenger foot rests (395g x 2). +0,790kg
plus central stand with springs etc. +1,812kg
minus the hopeless OEM turn signals (179g x4). -0,716kg
plus the mini turn signals (guesstimated at 100g x 4). +0,400kg

Dry weight ab factory with battery and oil etc 248,24k

I don’t know the weight diff between OEM suspension and the Olins mounted now.

Target dry weight below 200kg now seems to be close to impossible.

Best regards, Niels
 
Thanks Beucars.
I know him and I am impressed with his attention to detail, but we don’t
have a precise figure figure for the dry weight
 
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