can am spyders, hmm

[mattness]

so i was looking at can am spyders to see if they did ok in the snow.

well i saw a few on ebay and scoured craigslist for a lil bit lookin at em. and they all have like NO miles on them. like people buy them and ride em for a week and park them...

well i got on some spyder forums and it looks like theyre having a lot of problems with them. and people complain that theyre just "not" a bike.

thats sad, i thought they were cool. before i buy one, if ever, id definitely want a test ride after hearing some of those guys bash their own bikes.

 

[4gasem]

If you're going to ride it in the snow, try a snowmobile... Same thing but designed for the snow... lol

All joking aside. You could probably spoon a 3 blizzaks on it and get around pretty well.

Chris

 

[EvilD]

I think they are kinda gay.

 

[Rusty McNeil]

I've ridden my nieghbors several times, it's his wifes actually. It's OK for what it is. If I ever get so old where I have to have a trike it would be something like this way before it'd be a conventional trike.

The thing is quick enough but not craxy quick, better than most cruisers for sure.

The one thing that I could not get used to is that it simply leans the wrong way because as you said...It's not a bike....

 

[RaWarrior]

BRP seems to have had some quality issues in recent years. The new rev-xp chassis for snowmobiles was absolute garbage the first year it came out, forums were up in flames with people literally bashing the machines they just paid upwards of $10k. Absolutely everything broke on them. Finally they're getting the XPs worked out, but a lot of people still prefer the original REV for durability. I'd heard a lot of issues with the Spyders also, and that in general they seem to need a lot more maintenance than a typical bike. Sea-doo's since about 06 have had issues galore with them, especially on the supercharged models. Brand new boats are sinking at the dock, superchargers disintegrating, motors being overhauled at 100 hours, on and on.

If I was looking for a "motorcycle-like" experience, I'd get one of these instead.