When the DS650 first came out it had a dry weight of 460 pounds. For 2004 It's 20 pounds lighter. But it is 470 pounds Dry.

Buy lightening it up. It some how it gained 10 pounds.

It just don't add up.

 

standard DS dry weight is probably around 490, they under estimated it's weight back in 1999?

 

how do they underestimate weight?
PUT IT ON A SCALE...READ IT....RIGHT IT DOWN...
i dont understand how these companies miscalculate the weights of their vehicles.

 

ATV Action weighs all the bikes for their articles - even put a scale under each wheel to calculate weight bias. even they said '01 standard was 460 dry. they also said baja was 490 dry. somewhere, somebody got screwed up between the standard and the baja, and subtracted 20 from the 490. an article in Dirtwheels a few months ago talked of the goal Bomb set for the new '04 DS to lose 30 lbs. to reach a weight of 430.
Somebody at Bomb is just on Crack. Like all that marketing for 2 years that kept saying the baja has beadlock rims, when Bomb has never ever sold a bike with beadlock rims. I sent them 6 e-mails for 6 months straight before it finally was removed from their site!

 

...It's those French speaking Canadians that are messing up the numbers. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]

 

The 2004 standard DS650 should weigh in at a sporty 440 lbs Dry.

 

I found a few mags. That have posted the weights of DS 650's

DirtWheels July 2001 475 lbs Dry Baja DS650
DirtWheels December 2001 460 lbs Dry DS650
DirtWheels January 2002 Buyer's Guide 475 lbs Dry Baja DS650
DirtWheels 2002 Buyer's Guide 505 lbs wet with 1 gal fuel Baja DS650, 660R raptor 418 Lbs wet 1gal fuel

2002 ATV Buyer's Guide 460 lbs Dry DS650

ATV Sport 2002 Buyer's Guide 460 lbs Dry DS650, 475 lbs Dry Baja DS650
ATV Sport June 2003 470 lbs Dry 2004 DS650, 482 lbs Dry 2004 Baja DS650

All-Terrain Vehicle March 2002 507.5 lbs Wet DS650, 660R raptor 65 lbs lighter
All-Terrain Vehicle 2003 Field Guide 490 lbs dry One of the DS650's

USA Atv Rider 2003 490 lbs dry DS650

ATV Rider Ontario Edition 475 lbs Dry Baja DS650
ATV Rider Ontario Edition 2002 Buyer's Guide 460 lbs dry DS650, 475 lbs Dry Baja DS650
ATV Rider Ontario Edition 2003 Buyer's Guide 460 lbs dry DS650, 475 lbs Dry Baja DS650

The ATV Buyer's Guide by Robert Jette 460 lbs Dry DS650, 475 Lbs Dry Baja DS650

 

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I AM CANADIAN!!!....but i don't speak french....so its all good[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

 

lol... I'm kinda french...but not AS french as those Quebec morons (sorry, but they come visit around here all summer...and none of them can drive a car properly...)...Quebec is where Bombardier was founded and is located..That is also where they manufacture the beloved DS...

I speak english as good as french...so it's all good [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]