How we check fitment
Effective July 2026.
Every fitment on this site carries a badge that says exactly how far we could check it: verified, vendor rated, or not independently verified. Where a manufacturer publishes no figure, the page says Not published. We do not fill gaps with estimates.
What the badges mean
These are the three badges the site actually shows on a fitment row.
Verified
We checked the combination against owner reports and vendor fitment data. The Verified badge means this.
Vendor rated
The vendor supplies a fitment or a rating for the combination and we have not been able to confirm it independently. Useful, not confirmed.
Not independently verified
Nothing we could reach confirms it. Treated as a starting point rather than as fact, and marked that way on the row.
Not published is not a badge. It is what a field shows when whoever should have printed the value, the motorcycle manufacturer for bike figures or the luggage vendor for bag figures, never states it anywhere we could reach. We say so rather than guessing. Most subframe load ratings show this.
Elsewhere on the site you will see the phrase "verified or labeled". Verified is the first badge. Labeled covers the other two: anything we could not verify says so on its own row.
Manufacturer load figures, rack ratings and heat warnings are held to a stricter standard than any badge. Each one was read in a manufacturer source, and each is published with its document number, edition and page so you can check it yourself. Where a page number is still being recorded, the line says so instead of implying a complete citation.
What the weight numbers measure
Four different weight figures appear on this site, all in kilograms. They measure different things and cannot be compared to each other.
Bike load capacity. The combined weight of rider, passenger, cargo and accessories. The largest figure on any bike page. Published by the motorcycle manufacturer.
Rack rating. The load permitted on top of a rear rack or carrier. It is not the rack's own weight, and it is not what the motorcycle can carry. The published ratings on this site run from 2 kg to 9 kg.
Soft luggage on the seat. Soft luggage that carries its load on the seat rather than on a rack is not governed by a rack rating. What limits it is the bike's load capacity and the vendor's own guidance, where one exists.
Rider-reported limits. Some pages show a working number that owners converge on, always labeled Rider reported. That is forum consensus, not a specification, and no manufacturer stands behind it.
Where the numbers come from
Manufacturer load figures, rack ratings and heat warnings come from manufacturer documents only. Not from mirror sites, not from third-party manual publishers, not from retailers, not from forums, and not from our own arithmetic.
Every figure is published with its model year, and with its market where the document states one. This is not a formality. Honda publishes a maximum weight capacity of 148 kg for United States 50-state CRF300L models and 145 kg for Canada models, on the same model year, document 31K1TA400, page 142. A figure without its year is a different bike's number.
Where a figure is the combined weight of rider, passenger, cargo and accessories, we say so in the same sentence, before the number. Most manufacturer load figures are combined figures, and a rider who reads one as a luggage allowance will overload the bike.
Where a manufacturer publishes only a gross vehicle weight rating, we publish that and say what it means. We publish no arithmetic of our own on top of it. If a manufacturer did not print a number, it does not appear on this site as one.
We print the units the manufacturer prints. Where we have recorded only the metric value, only the metric value appears.
We name the manufacturer's own document rather than hosting a copy. The document number, edition and page are printed on our page, which is enough to find it at the manufacturer.
What nobody publishes
No subframe load rating. We did not find a subframe load figure in any of the six owner's manuals we read. This is the single most requested number in adventure luggage, and on these six bikes it is not in the manual.
Where owners have converged on a working number, the page shows it labeled Rider reported. That is forum consensus, not a specification.
No US federal standard that we found. We looked in the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards for motorcycles and found nothing addressing luggage carriers, racks or load securing.
No motorcycle luggage-carrier standard that we could find. ISO 11243 covers bicycle carriers only. We looked for a motorcycle equivalent and found none, which is not the same as proving none exists.
Rear rack ratings are barely better. Three of the six bikes here have a published rating. Yamaha prints no rating for the rear carrier. Royal Enfield prints no rack rating at all and defers to the fitting instructions supplied with each Genuine Motorcycle Accessory. In Honda's manual, no rear carrier appears.
How often we recheck
Fitment data is rechecked when a manufacturer updates a manual, when a product changes, or when a rider tells us something does not match. The check date appears on every page.
Every page carries a "Spot an issue?" button in the footer. No email and no account: pick what is wrong, add a note if you want to, send. It records which page you were on, so the report lands against the right bike or product. Every correction that reaches us is read.
Separately, riders can confirm a setup they have actually run from the fitment card itself. A setup is marked confirmed once enough riders report the same thing.
Who we are
ADV Fitment is a small independent project, not a retailer and not a manufacturer. We are not paid by any luggage brand to say a product fits. Where a link earns a commission, it is labeled on the page and the price you pay does not change.
Corrections and questions: hello@advfitment.com