Jenny Craig, anyone?

A lot of folks emailed me with questions about how much weight came off the RX3 when we built the SuperMoto styling study bike.

Here’s the deal, boys and girls…we weighed the stock luggage, the rack, the engine guards, the passenger foot pegs, the passenger footpeg mounting brackets, and the bolts.

You ready for this?  The combined weight of those items is 47.45 lbs.  There’s a few other things that further lightened the bike, like the aluminum wheels, the tank panels, the shortened beak, and the abbreviated front fender, but I didn’t want to include those items when calculating the weight reduction.   The question I was interested in was this:  If you take the stock CSC RX3 and remove all the goodies listed above, what’s the weight reduction…and the answer is just a scosh under 50 lbs.

The SuperMoto styling study bike felt noticeably lighter and faster, but I didn’t realize just how much weight came off with the bags, the guards, the passenger footpegs, etc.  And on our stock RX3 motorcycles, that’s something we can unbolt and bolt back on whenever we want.

Okay, that’s if for today.  Time to get out and fight the traffic home.   Ride safe, my friends…