07-03-2016, 10:12 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Heartland of America.
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Passenger on a Hawk?
I'm considering a Hawk for the back roads around my place. I live right at the edge of 14,000 acres of federal land that's just trails and minimum maintenance roads, lots of places to camp. No highway riding to get there, it's basically right out my back door.
Would I be able to carry light camping gear for 1 night, and a passenger (my wife) on dirt roads and trails to the camping spots? Or is that too much load for the Hawk? I weigh 150, my wife is 130. When I say lightweight camping gear, I'm talking about backpacking gear, not a 30 pack of Budweiser.�� |
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07-03-2016, 11:00 AM
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if you can find room to carry everything, it should handle the weight- I'm about 270 and have gone camping w about 35 -45 lbs of gear. the seat is two levels and the back pegs are there, just tell her she needs to carry the backpack  get the harbor freight welding rod case and attach it to the left side of the frame where a second muffler would go if the hawk was a twin lol. an inexpensive set of saddle bags or an expensive wolfman or greatloops bag will sit well and balanced then. add as big of a backpack for her as you need, check a/p and away you go.
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07-03-2016, 11:00 AM
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Lots of 4 wheelers around here, but we really want to get into motorcycles. The ultimate goal being use this land around us, and the Hawk, to get some experience to work up to doing some real adventure traveling! Last edited by Plainsman; 07-03-2016 at 12:07 PM. |
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07-03-2016, 01:07 PM
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07-03-2016, 04:32 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: Missouri USA
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It can easily handle it. I've had over 400 lbs on my bike. Btw that is not ideal or a good idea, but it did handle it ok
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07-04-2016, 12:18 AM
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07-07-2016, 11:37 AM
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07-22-2016, 02:05 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2016
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I would upgrade the rear shock to one that you can adjust the preload and also rebound. with your combined weight it may not be an issue but with me at almost 250 and then put someone on the back it tend to take the weight off the front tire effecting breaking. just something to think about.
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07-24-2016, 09:17 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2010
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Just a warning for anyone planning to ride 2 up on one of these bikes. My experience with my lifan gy-5 involved carrying about 80 lbs of "cargo" off road to a hunting cabin. I have negotiated this off road area many times, lots of soft deep sand and also some muddy water crossings. Well it was a helluva struggle, about a mile in I turned around and went back to the paved road rather than taking the off road shortcut.
The bikes off road potential was seriously depreciated when loaded. Granted my rear tire was not the best, but I found negotiating difficult terrain much more difficult loaded vs unloaded. I was not a happy camper trying to push a loaded china bike out of a mud hole while struggling to keep it upright...It was a close exhausting moment, I almost lost the bike in the water and decided to turn around before drowning it and being stranded miles from comfort...YMMV |
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07-24-2016, 09:24 AM
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"TWO.....Damned MUCH!" wives ,however, can be far less forgiving 
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07-24-2016, 01:06 PM
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