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Old 07-07-2005, 8:07 PM
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Weighing your RC
Has anyone weighed your RC. How did you do it? Truck scales? Just wondering as mine will be dieting this or next year.

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Old 07-07-2005, 8:13 PM
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Find out what Rosie O'Donnell uses and you'll be good to go.
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Re: Weighing your RC
Shipping (pallet) scales.

Lay a 2x6 and a piece of 2x? to lay under your kickstand on a pallet scale (Do you have a shipping dept.? If not, make friends with someone who does)... Zero out the scale (to allow for the lumber), roll bike up on to to said 2x6 (giving you the width you would need on a pallet scale) w/ chunk o' 2xsometing under the kickstand and check the weight.
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Has anyone weighed your RC. How did you do it? Truck scales? Just wondering as mine will be dieting this or next year.
I don't think those will work for ya sheepster, the resolution is probably within that of your mods.
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Bathroom scale works fine...
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Old 07-07-2005, 8:35 PM
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Re: Weighing your RC
I do have easy access to a pallet scale... the reason for the thought.

I have never weighed a bike nor do I intend to... until, I can moderate the weight of the rider.

Bake... A bathroom scale? We are talking RC51... not TZ250!
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LOL...any bathroom scale that can weigh you or me will work just fine on an RC....
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Bathroom scale works fine...
one under each end.
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Re: Weighing your RC
Have you got a horse track near you? I used a weighing harness and scale at a course near me here in the UK. It's meant for weighing jockey's and saddle etc but goes upto to 200Kg so just right for a RC
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one under each end.
Actually, you just need one....and a piece of wood about the same thickness as the scale.
An advantage to using a bath scale is you also learn the f/r bias...

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You only need the wood if you are really anal...
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LOL...any bathroom scale that can weigh you or me will work just fine on an RC....
My reason for the acquaintance with the pallet scale!!!!
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Re: Weighing your RC
how about the scales at the end of a dragstrip. I know at the end of the strip at New England Dragway they have a car scale and you get your weight printed along with your ET.
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Re: Weighing your RC
When you're done modding it, just drop it again and compare that to the first time you picked it up after you dropped it. Should give you a good idea of how much weight it lost.
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I think the car scales have a bit too much noise, especially that low on their range. I used a heavy duty scale at work with a board under the other wheel. A little addition and I got 461 lbs. My 954 weighed 427 with the same method.
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I usually use the scales at the village co-op. I make one run with the bike in the trailer, then another with the bike out of the trailer. Last time it weighed in at 404 and change with about 2 gallons of gas.
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When you're done modding it, just drop it again and compare that to the first time you picked it up after you dropped it. Should give you a good idea of how much weight it lost.
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I usually use the scales at the village co-op. I make one run with the bike in the trailer, then another with the bike out of the trailer. Last time it weighed in at 404 and change with about 2 gallons of gas.
Wow! I expect mine to be a LOT higher. I think wet is 487 and you can subtract the exhaust which I am guessing is 10lbs, the rotors (1lb or less) and track plastic if I have Niners on when I weigh in. I am guessing 450 as a start point.
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Wow! I expect mine to be a LOT higher. I think wet is 487 and you can subtract the exhaust which I am guessing is 10lbs, the rotors (1lb or less) and track plastic if I have Niners on when I weigh in. I am guessing 450 as a start point.
Yours will be a lot heavier. Mine has a few modifications.
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So did my 929.
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