I am 6'2" and 185#, and my lady is similar. We ride double with daypacks, hiking staffs, first aid kit, Kolpin 1.25 gallon tank, Harley-Davidson saddlebags for toolkit and sundries, and fire supression kit (ax, shovel, fire extinguisher) on paved and dirt roads. 50 mph is fine, so is 55 and 60 mph if conditions allow it. We slow down to 3 mph when the going is soft sand or loose cobblestones. We seem to burn a little oil at 65 mph, so I try to keep it around 55 - 60 mph on the pavement. The TW 200 is able to handle these loads without problems. On washboard roads I slow down to keep the hammering to a minimum since the suspension is mostly bottomed out. But the iron horse has never let us down. We have 32,100 miles on our 2006 and have shared the seat for hundreds of days together. She doesn't want to learn to ride by herself, so I drive and she is my passenger. Oregon highway truck scales are always on (a public service, maybe?) so we occasionally weigh if the weighmaster is gone home...our gross weight is never less than 700 lbs and often is 735 or 750 lbs. Do people stare at us as we pile and strap our gear down, then climb on and go for a ride? Sure they do. We smile and give them a little wave.
I think you'll find your TW is a very capable machine for riding double. As others have said before on this forum, if you can figure out a way to tie it on, under, or beside a CycleRack, this bike can probably carry it. We don't do jumps, wheelies, hillclimbs or any contests. We ride in sand, gravel, dirt, rutted 2-tracks, logging roads, backcountry roads, desert roads of OR, AZ and CA, mountain forest roads of OR, MT, and Canada.
