The static load on one wheel bearing (non-ABS SKF 6205 is 1753 pounds. So, two bearings in a wheel should support over 3400 pounds per wheel.

 

To mess with the english majors on the crowd. Maybe next time he'll mess with the psych majors.

 

Google “methinks”. It’s interesting, oft misused, and peculiar.

 

You are right, I'll drop the occasional grammar bomb like that just to twig the OCD english majors in here, you can hear their crowns cracking and the keyboard groaning in the correction replies it gets.

Particularly effective when trolling a grammar troll

 

Three years ago, wife and I were about 60 pounds over the weight rating for my Street Glide. So I bought a Freewheeler trike and we rode that for two years until we lost a combined 65 pounds. We sold the trike and bought a new Road Glide last fall.
You have your own risk tolerance, and do what you need to do. Just a word of caution. With that much weight that high up on a bike, braking will be compromised and it will be extremely difficult to make an emergency swerve to avoid the random idiot who pulls out in front of you. Watch your speed and you can make it work. Ride safe.