CB's max weight

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I had a 2016 Africa Twin and had to change out the rear spring, the rate was far too low for its max loading. I traded up for a Tiger 1200 in the end as I thought the Africa Twin was a bit weak two up and a really uncomfortable bike. It got me to look at carrying capacities of bikes before I bought the Triumph. This table is a bit misleading as some of these bikes have panniers/top box as standard. The second table is making an allowance for those and re-ordering the list for fairness.

Carrying Capacity as the bike is supplied

Triumph Tiger 1200XR 230
BMW K1600 Bagger 224
Triumph Tiger 1200XCa 224
Triumph Tiger 1200XCx 223
Kawasaki Versys 1000 220
BMW R1200RT 219
BMW GSA 217
BMW S1000XR 216
BMW GS 216
Yamaha FJR1300A 215
Yamaha XT1200Z 212
BMW K1600GTL 210
BMW K1600GT 206
BMW F800GT 206
BMW Grand America 196
Honda Africa Twin 195
Honda Goldwing 2018 192
Kawasaki Vulcan Voyager (USA) 180
Yamaha Tracer 900 GT (2018) 167

If I added panniers and top box to all bikes without them in the above list the table gets altered.

BMW K1600 Bagger 217
BMW R1200RT 212
BMW K1600GTL 210
Triumph Tiger 1200XR 209
Triumph Tiger 1200XCa 203
Triumph Tiger 1200XCx 202
Kawasaki Versys 1000 199
BMW K1600GT 199
BMW GSA 196
BMW Grand America 196
BMW S1000XR 195
BMW GS 195
Yamaha FJR1300A 194
Honda Goldwing 2018 192
Yamaha XT1200Z 191
BMW F800GT 185
Kawasaki Vulcan Voyager (USA) 180
Honda Africa Twin 174
Yamaha Tracer 900 GT (2018) 160

I have made an assumption on the weight of top box and panniers and applied the same weight to all and I know the Tracer 900GT can only have panniers OR top box so that is not really a realistic value in the 2nd table but you get the gist. 21KG allowed for top box/panniers, 7Kg for top box only.