Touring Motorcyclists: Find Safe Weight Limits On-Line

Owners of Harley Davidson, Honda and BMW touring motorcycles can now easily determine their safe weight load limits on-line. No digging through fine print. No doing the math. Unsafemotorcycles.com now offers a "Safe Weight Calculator" that can help riders quickly determine how much weight is available for gear -- such as helmets, clothing, and water-- after rider and passenger weights are figured in. A warning is flashed if the numbers show the riders are at risk or have already overloaded their bikes.

Austin, TX (PRWEB) January 12, 2010 -- Owners of Harley Davidson, Honda and BMW touring motorcycles can now easily determine their load limits on-line. No digging through fine print. No doing the math.

Unsafemotorcycles.com now offers a "Safe Weight Calculator" that can help riders quickly determine how much weight is available for gear -- such as helmets, clothing, and water-- after rider and passenger weights are figured in. A warning is flashed if the numbers show the riders are at risk or have already overloaded their bikes.

“Motorcycle manufacturers say staying within recommended weight limits is key to safe riding, but they often aren’t clear about what those limits are

“Motorcycle manufacturers say staying within recommended weight limits is key to safe riding, but they often aren’t clear about what those limits are. They say that overloading a motorcycle can lead to motorcycle tire failure, injury and death, yet they don’t provide any tool for finding out if you’re overloaded,” said Billy Edwards, the attorney who sponsors the site on behalf of consumers injured or killed by motorcycle tire defects.

Currently, owners of Harley Davidson touring bikes have to comb through owner's manuals to find the bike’s weight-related statistics, understand how the weights relate to each other, and calculate the difference to find their bike’s maximum safe load, Edwards said. Honda owner’s manuals directly state the model’s maximum weight limit, he added. But all this information is still buried in small print and not adequately available to buyers and riders, he said.

"Our experience in defective tire cases is that manufacturers like to claim the operators were at fault for overloading their bikes. But our experience also shows that manufacturers like to bury this information in owner’s manuals and that dealers consistently fail to discuss maximum weight limits with buyers, even if it is obvious that the buyers, by their weight alone, may overload the bike," Edwards said.

Edwards has called on Harley Davidson and Honda to investigate reports of "sudden and catastrophic" deflations of tires on large touring motorcycles . The website. Unsafemotorcycles.com , lists 16 reports of such sudden tire deflations involving touring motorcycles.

Edwards can be contacted at 1 -800-475-0971, or through the Unsafemotorcycles.com web site.

For more information contact Teresa Kelly, 512-328-4276, teresapkelly(at)msn(dot)com

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