why is the KPX250 75 pounds heavier than a Templar X?

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Originally Posted by zero_dgz

1. No one is addressing the elephant in the room, except K'hermitt, which is that the discrepancy in weights is probably down to the spec sheet being either hopelessly optimistic or an outright lie. These are Chinese made bikes, brought to you by the country who will happily sell you plastic pellets instead of rice, and claim that you just bought a "10 million lumen" flashlight that runs off of 2xAA's. It's horseshit, folks. Lying about the specifications of everything is the Chinese national sport.


Guessing about it is the one thing that's guaranteed not to produce the correct answer.



2. To accurately weigh a bike using a bathroom scale, without having to lift either end of it and give yourself a hernia, weigh it twice. Once with the front wheel on the scale, once with the rear wheel on the scale. The sum of these two numbers will be the correct weight. Sport Rider got it right.


Post script: I rode my fully loaded KLR up and down the MABDR over the last couple of days. I dumped it and had to pick it up four (4) times. Once time I wiped out in gravel, once in mud, once after a river crossing, and once my kickstand sunk into the dirt. I was not best pleased about it by the 4th time, but I managed by myself.

My weighing sessions with the KTM and Templar X actually matched up remarkably well with the stated values from KTM and Zuumav.

https://www.chinariders.net/showpost...6&postcount=23

I used a ProIron digital scale. I weighed on level space. I rolled the unweighed wheels onto a board of same thickness as the ProIron scale.

I don't see a lying conspiracy at all. The Templar and the KTM both weigh about what they claim. K'hermit added gear which may account for the additional ~15 lbs on that truck scale. What elephant ?? I ride both of these bikes, and the weights match up with my trail experience on both of them.