For you guys that ride the wife/galpal-- fess up! I won't tell her!

[Old Ryder]

As my 240 lbs sit in this skinny office chair typing this thread, please know that I am not trying to get too personal but I am a bit concerned. I read in the manual about a 410 pound weight limit INCLUDING ALL CARGO. As stated my 240 lbs from that does not give the better half much leadway before we are over the limit---well I will just say it-- we are over the limit. If she reads that, I will never hear the end of it. I can't believe the F6B is less sturdy than the GL1800 with the trunk and the other tons of widgets, giz-mos, and accessories. How many of you guys are also over the limit? Are you as concerned as I am? My VTX 1800 was more than this. Not that I think the thing is going to break in half or anything, but why in the dickens is there such a low load rating on such a big bike.

Another question for you guys is the GL 1800 the same load rating or more and why?

[Big Jay]

I'm 300 and my wife weighs as much as you and we have done a few weekend trips with luggage so far no problems. tires and suspension seem to handle it ok.

[chipmaker]

I will tell you the F6B will haul 550 easily...

[53driver]

Combined, "we" are over 410. That's why I put the Corbin Smuggler on it. No temptation for busting any limits. When our New Year's resolution - from 2005 - comes to pass, we might go back to tandem configuration.

[bobbyf6b]

Honda website says the F6B weighs 844 lbs and my sticker says GVWR is 1259 lbs. That seems like an odd GVWR number. That leaves 415 lbs. Doesn't seem like much. I'm sure you're fine, I've had mine over that for sure.

[Jayrock]

Put more air in the tires & you'll be good to go

[Bowhunter1800]

I agree. Air up the tires, crank up the shocks and ride.

[motoman]

Lawyers have to be conservative for Honda CYA issues...

I think they expect you to exceed the limit. But if you crash and try to sue AHMC claiming the bike became 'unstable' they can point to that sticker and tell you to 'stick' it.

[Pap]

I'm sure the wife and I are pushing the suggested limit. When I first got the bike and after reading about the settings to shoot for, I turned up the pre-load. too stiff riding for us. I ended up turning the setting back to the lower stock setting. Never bottomed out or had any ill effects.

[Michael_A]

I saw the same weight limit and did a bit of research. The tires fitted have a load rating of 74 (on the rear) which is 827 lbs. The 09 Goldwing I owned had a rear tire load rating of 80 (992 lbs). I suspect that Honda fitted some "better handling" tires on the F6B at the expense of capacity. Run the engineering spec through the legal department and apply a conservative margin and you end up with a maximum payload less than a Honda Rebel. IMO, it's overly conservative since the chassis is fully proven to run at much higher weights. When I burn off the OE tires, I'll replace them with something that has a higher load rating, just on general principal, and carry on. Tire pressures are critical - so check often. Real world experience from numerous Glowing's indicates that in actual practice you will be fine. FWIW, the average weight that engineers use in calculating passenger capacity of vehicles used to be some ridiculously low figure like 185 lbs each; and some aircraft engineers used 150 lbs each! I suspect Honda is also using a "low average" passenger weight. A Mazda Miata I had also stated some ridiculously low max total passenger/cargo weight like 380! Kudus' for reading the manual, though....