Just Wondering Outloud

[Bob Denman]

Different animal... Try spinning that big twin to 9000 rpm or so and see what happens!
You won't see another gear on top until they re-work the cases to make more room...$$$$$$$

[boborgera]

Different animal... Try spinning that big twin to 9000 rpm or so and see what happens!

Why would you rev it to 9k, Its like me saying try starting your Spyder out in 5Th at 1500 rpm [ and see what happens.]

[NancysToy]

The Spyder engine doesn't even come alive until five grand. Let it spin! That's what it was built for.

[Motavar]

I thought the spyder was originally designed with 6 forward gears and BRP decided to dump the 6th and make a reverse instead.

[COOLMACHINE]

I thought the spyder was originally designed with 6 forward gears and BRP decided to dump the 6th and make a reverse instead.

That's my understanding as well.

[NancysToy]

I thought the spyder was originally designed with 6 forward gears and BRP decided to dump the 6th and make a reverse instead.

The Spyder was not designed this way, the engine/tranny was designed for the Aprilia that way. In the Aprilia form, the engine has a narrower power band, and needs the closer gear spacing.

[AMTJIM]

I love the manual transmission, but would have loved a CVT SE5. I love the feel of CVT.

[boborgera]

The Spyder was not designed this way, the engine/tranny was designed for the Aprilia that way. In the Aprilia form, the engine has a narrower power band, and needs the closer gear spacing.

I Might be wrong? but that engine was used in some of their [BRP] snowmobiles, Then adapted for the Spyder.

[r1100rider]

I have to disagree with most of you on this one I have 2 rs spyders and have the 30t on one of them the bike will very easily pull the extra gearing and dosnt cause you to downshift to pull a hill in fact in a drag race between the 2 bike almost no diff crusing at highway speeds big dif the higher gearing makes for a much more relaxed ride and less strained feel the spyder may not have the low end of a hog but it still is a v twin and does very well it will pull high gear down to some pretty low speeds 35 or so and pull back up the rs is 200 lbs less than an rt but there is plenty of power for higher gearing the fewer rpms make a big diff in what comes thru to the body yes 6 th gear would be nice or just spread out the 5 we have. My bet is the lawyers didn't want any higher
gearing to limiting the top speed

[Bob Denman]

I Might be wrong? but that engine was used in some of their [BRP] snowmobiles, Then adapted for the Spyder.

Nope! Rotax has built 4 stroke Vee-twins for some Ski doo models, and have a bunch of them in the ATV/UTV lineup, but they are completely different animals...
The closest to what we're using is in the Commander 1000: 85 horsepower one litre Vee-twin hooked up to a CVT tranny...
There's no doubt that all of the four stroke technology builds upon each previous effort though.

[Blue Star]

Why would you rev it to 9k, Its like me saying try starting your Spyder out in 5Th at 1500 rpm [ and see what happens.]

Okay. I can speak from experience on this. If you try to take off in 5th gear you will stall out each time after moving about 3 feet. Was worried for a moment that Orbit was broken down on me until I noticed what gear I had it in.