Touring Bikes Under 700 Pounds Wet

Wet weight is what a touring bike weighs ready to ride, with all fluids and fuel on board, as the manufacturer states it. Every bike here comes in under seven hundred pounds on that figure from the factory. Here’s where it matters: less weight is easier to push around a parking lot, to pick up and to hold at a stop.

When one of these bikes catches your eye, pin down the exact generation and model year you’re looking at. Make sure its maker confirms a wet weight for that version. Dry weight leaves out fuel, oil and coolant, so it isn’t comparable. A bike with only a dry weight on record doesn’t make this list.