Excedeing the Linhia 250 limits

[4950cycle]

I'm a little apprehenssive about Taking the JCL MP250A to Gainsville today. What I mean about excedeing the limits is My girlfriend and I are going two up. But, I'm 6'3 , 257 lbs. and shes 230 or better I bet. ( she won't let me see the scale when shes on it) . The whole trip will be about 86 miles. I will have to average about 62 mph to keep up with 2 lane hwy traffic (one lane each way). And mostly flat ground/mild rolling hills. . I think the bikes recommended limits are 300 or 400 lbs. I believe. Do any of you long time Linhai 257cc owners see a problem here with power or handling limits ?

[jazzman]

You make the call here are the specs:
www.jclusa.com/MP250A.htm

[inuyasha]

Hi
I would take a test ride with the two of you in a parking lot or on roads with hardly any traffic first before embarking on your journey to check out the scoots limits and be on the safe side
Take care and ride safely
Yours Hank

[4950cycle]

See what you mean jazzman. Knowing they like to have safe limits it does make it a somewhat personal call on weather it would be smart or not. I know on pickup trucks they have max load limits that can be exceded by a large margin fairly safely. All you have to do is nothing stupid. But, I know we're not talking about a pickup truck here.

[4950cycle]

I think thats a splended idea Hank. Thats what I was tossing around.

[spandi]

By my rough calculation you'll be exceeding the operating weight limit by 100 lb. While at the same time being at the high end of the speed range. (BTW, have you driven two up that far before?)

[ariot]

I would not recomend it. 20-30 lbs you might get away with but 100 it may be overloading the rear tire load index. Also make it handle poorly Ck here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycle_tyre

[prodigit]

I'm 6'3", only 180LBS though, and I've taken my BMS260 on a 50Mile WOT trip (@75mph; that's 90MPH on the speedometer; the linhai 257cc is actually branded as a 260cc engine, not a 250. In my case it's an EFI, but a Linhai Carb engine is about as good as the CFmoto 250cc engine @244cc).

I've taken my BMS TXB260 EFI to a long 100 mile trip, @ an average of 50MPH, without problems.

I would agree that taking a bike like this on a long trip might be taxing.
I would suggest you to search for an alternate route. Quite often there's a road next to the interstate or highway, that goes the same direction at a lower speed.

If not, then I would suggest you to not drive WOT, but hold back on the throttle a bit.
Most likely you'll go 55-60MPH without problems.
Above 65 with you may be taxing the engine at it's max power. It may do a few trips just fine, but you'd be limiting it's lifetime by much!
By yourself you probably could do the trip at 65-70MPH just fine.

On my BMS, 65-70MPH displays as 75-80MPH

[rockynv]

The weight capacity was one of the major reasons I chose the bike I did. Since I weighed in at over 250 when I purchased my bike the 464 lb capacity of the Sport City 250 was the clincher. The 130/80-15 rear tire has plenty of reserve capacity that I do not have to worry much about my passengers weight.

You would be more than 100 lbs over the 385.8 lbs max capacity of the MP250A. Take a local test drive with your girlfriend on a side street and then if that goes well try a state road. I would not take that bike on the interstate in Florida.

During the day the sun heats the blacktop quite a bit here in the South and that with the loading could lead to overheating or a blowout.

Watch out for brake fade too. An overloaded bikes brakes can heat up in one quick stop and loose their grip fast.

Don't forget to reset the preload on the rear shocks to the max setting before taking your passenger.