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Thread: Stock weight the best i could determine it

Created on: 12/20/25 06:38 PM

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Rook


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Stock weight the best i could determine it
12/20/25 6:38 PM

I weighed my bike tonight on bathroom scales. Actually, it only takes one bathroom scale. You'll have enough trouble reading one of those without worrying about two. I put the bike up on 1 inch planks which were level with the one inch scale. Rolled it forward onto the scale to get the read on the front. Put the scale in back and rolled it backwards to get the rear. It was a digital scale that held the reading for a few seconds. You can't see the display while holding the bike up so it was a bit tricky to set the bike down before the display shut off. I held the bike balanced vertically. Took ten weights and averaged them, the weight was different every time I did the front. The rear was almost a hundred percent consistent for some reason but the front varied by as much as two pounds. I'll try this again tomorrow but here's what I got:

Stock, No OEM parts removed, no aftermarket parts installed. Dealer prepped with fluids. Oil and filter just changed with 4.1 liters of oil. Fuel tank filled with bike on side stand until gasoline touched the left side of the splash shield. Key in ignition and license plate installed with steel license plate bolts.

Front: 302.16 lbs
Rear: 298.0 lbs

Total: 600.16 lbs


Pretty interesting that the front and rear are almost exactly the same weight. Id have guessed the front would be somewhat heavier than the rear.



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RE: Stock weight the best i could determine it
12/20/25 6:39 PM

This was a 2024 ZX-14R BTW. Kawasaki claims 593.1 lbs.


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RE: Stock weight the best i could determine it
12/21/25 1:16 AM

Pretty interesting that the front and rear are almost exactly the same weight. Id have guessed the front would be somewhat heavier than the rear.

I weighed my Dirt Bike a couple of years ago,
if I remember right, the front and back were
within a couple of pounds of each other.
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You're still under warranty on that bike right?
Hence stock exhaust still?
I weighed my slip-ons and as everyone knows
the OEM's are about twice the weight of
slip-ons and probably even more than that
compared with
full exhaust (cat delete), one thing I
forgot to take into consideration though
is the weight of the mid-pipe, since that
is permanently attached to the OEM exhaust,
so in my case probably not a 1/2 weight
savings, via my slip-ons since I'd only
weighed the cans, not the mid-pipes.

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RE: Stock weight the best i could determine it
12/21/25 12:12 PM

I'm not sure how the warrantee works but if it was still in effect and I had a problem, I might just throw the stock exhaust back on. ..although there's not much I could do about the flashed ECU.

The stock mufflers and midpipe on my Gen1 were over 14 lbs each. The stock header/collector was almost 11 lb.



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