GS not for passengers

[gs500fromnb]

I feel like discussing this old issue anyway    :lol:

I took my brother from my parents house into the city last summer and he weighed 230 pounds... I weigh 155ish ...  obviously it handles way heavier... but I rode like 90-100mph the whole way on the freeway no problem... so I would say the GS is not SO bad taking peeps 2up.

Thinking about it I remember taking a friend who weighs about 120 pounds... he was saying my bike was slow and I dared him to hop on and i'd show him how "slow" the bike was... he went to get a lid and hopped on, so I figured since he was insisting i'd try to atleast give him a bit of a scare. To tell you the truth it felt like I didnt have anybody on the bike other than me.. I just went for a speed run on the freeway passing a few cars and turning around no kneedragging or anything and still he was impressed and never called my bike slow again .

[Lars]

It's not really comfortable but it works. I went with my brother to France on the GS. We had a lot of luggage too.  Total weight of luggage + bike + us was close to the maximum allowed combined weight of 370 kg. The suspension was way too soft but on the other hand, the bike still handled 160 km/h on the highways and I even managed to do some quite sharp turns at 130 km/h without any wobbles.  It was certainly more sluggish but you can compansate for that by using higher revs more often.  From 7000rpm and on it really starts to move.
Only downside is that the seating position for the passenger is a little cramped. My brother actually lost the feeling in his legs after a couple of 100 km's Took 15 mins. to get it back

[Moose0573]

I'm hovering around 300 lbs myself, and I really don't detect much slugishness with my '04 GS500f, as I have no problem to get up and go.  The suspension is a different story as the front end seems to bottom out quite often on stops.  I've only had the bike a little over two months and haven't messed with adjusting the suspension with the tool that is in the GS tool kit.  Will that make a difference?   :dunno:

[eluwak]

2-up on the GS (mine anyway)

2-up on the GW

The 4 letter-up mod helps alot

[skrap1r0n]

When I first got my GS in '91, I made the mistake of detailing the seat with armor-all. All I can say is that I was lucky in that I can still have kids. The first hard stop caused me to wait out the pain on the side of the road.

One thing about passengers, they have to know how to be a passenger. I ride with some people that are so accustomed to it, I barely know they are there, and others make it really tough to corner.

That being said, other than minor sluggishness, I never had any real problems with passengers.

[Vball24]

As a recent passenger on the back of a GS, I do have to say that there is little I could do from sliding forward, though I tried the bracing on the tank.  Though since Ash was trying to prove a point to me about the where the power is on the GS he deserved the head butts I gave him when he was braking.   :mrgreen:  Lots of love to you Ash!!  ha ha 4k Rules!!  I have to say though to me it is more scary to be on the back of a bike then to be driving it.  I guess it comes from the feeling of lack of control, though I'm sure after awhile you'd get used to it.

[scratch]

A passenger slappin' into the back of you should also tell ya something about being a smoother rider.