Originally Posted by
WackyDan
Yep... I get into with people from time to time. Generally most are open minded and can have an interesting conversation about riding or the spyder.
On the internet however, you have to remember that you are dealing with people offering their 2 cents in a way that they probably wouldn't have the courage to if they had to say it to your face.
I had a kid on the internet tell me his ninja 250 would eat my spyder and I quite honestly got a good laugh... 500 yes, 250, probably not.
I think what you see on the internet is a lot of 20 y/o somethings that are still on their first bike who still think that crotch rockets or top speed are the only thing that constitutes a bike. Heck, many probably don't have a bike at all!
These are the same idiots who in twenty years will still be trying to ride two wheels with the bum knee, etc and then their mind will be of a different set.
I was young once too... I used to think that subarus weren't utter crap and thought that one wasn't a match for an American muscle car... then I was taken for a ride in a run of the mill Impreza with a turbo and upgraded everything. Scared the crap out of me and changed my mind entirely.
I'm waiting for the day that some young punk pulls up next to Doc at a light and finds out the hard way that there are sleeper Spyders out in the wild now. ;)
So... we'll have to endure the fact that some think they are not bikes for the extra wheel, and that some don't recognize them as sport tourers, and that some think they are too slow... Really... Do we really care what they think?