Fly and Ride

[IndyBill]

Buying an 08 SM5 off this site and am flying down to Atlanta Sat to pick it up and ride back to Indiana. Everyone says it takes about 100 or 200 miles to get used to it so I figure about 1/3 of the way back I will be in fat city.
Have ridden other trikes before but I know this will be different. Can't wait.

Bill

[jimclarkf1]

WELCOME to the GOOD LIFE BILL :2thumbs: Please let us know how it goes, and what color is it.:thumbup: be carefull of all the cages out there.

[BumbleBee]

:congrats:welcomeEnjoy your new ryde and ryde safe. Have a good trip :thumbup:

[Lamonster]

welcomeand:congrats:

[Smylinacha]

welcome:congrats:

[NancysToy]

Welcome, glad to have you join us. There is a training course in the Owner's Guide. I suggest you read it before you head back, and spend a little time in a parking lot practicing before you hit the road. You will be much more comfortable with the first couple hundred miles that way. Godspeed!

[Bersquack]

:congrats: and welcome

Ride Safe!

[dltang]

welcome

[DynamoBT]

:congrats: and welcome

[3wheeldemon]

welcome As Scotty said, practice a bit in a parking lot or quiet street before you take the big trip. Once you stop missing the hand brake you are ready :D. Quite different that a traditional trike. Steering is more controllable. On turns, regular trikes make you feel like they are going to flip over. The Spyder feels very stable but at the beginning you think that you are going to be thrown off. Once you figure out the leaning it is extremely easy to ride.:thumbup:

3WD

[NewRider]

Hi, Bill...welcome to the group...have a great trip. I heartily endorse comments here, about reading the New Rider chapter, in the owner's manual. It's full of excellent information. Hope you can make it to the Spyder Ice Cream Social, later in October!:thumbup::congrats:

[sixpack]

welcome:congrats: Have a safe ride back home!

[Some Guy]

welcome

[michaels cycle]

Have ridden other trikes before but I know this will be different. Can't wait.

Bill

A GOOD DIFFERENT I hope.

[Badasz]

welcome:congrats: :bowdown::yes::spyder:

[ataDude]

:congrats: welcome

[pastorchuck]

:congrats: welcome


Welcome, glad to have you join us. There is a training course in the Owner's Guide. I suggest you read it before you head back, and spend a little time in a parking lot practicing before you hit the road. You will be much more comfortable with the first couple hundred miles that way. Godspeed!
:agree:

[COOLMACHINE]

Welcome IndyBill.
I bought my Spyder last Sept. in Detroit. Flew up there and rode it home the same day to St. Louis, MO. 430 miles. I agree with the others. Pull it into a parking lot and give it a go. If there is one suggestion I can give you, remember that the steering is extremely sensitive so do not hold on tightly. If you hold the handle bars to tight, it will be a somewhat squirrelly ride, so relax those hands. This sucker goes where ever you aim it, and quickly I might add. The ride home for me was quite boring. All that highway riding. Straight lines etc. Was actually glad to get it home where there were more turns to have fun on.
Have a safe trip. Keep it on 3-wheels.. :thumbup:

[fastfraser]

Safe trip home.welcome:congrats::spyder2: on.

[RodO]

About getting used to the steering... I've noticed several times that if I'm thinking / trying to control the turn, it can feel stressed, but if I just let happen, it pretty much steers itself. Hard to explain, but what I'm trying to say is to let the turn happen naturally and don't force it or over-think it.

There's another thread around here with advise on how to move your weigh to the inside on a turn that's worth reading.

Enjoy the ryde!

Rod.

[retread]

:congrats:welcome I'm a little north of you, but I ryde Brown County all the time. Best practice is split tennis balls in a loose pattern in a vacant parking lot, tighten them up as you get more comfortable with your ryde.
You're gonna love it.

john

[the nicko]

:congrats:welcome

[vt228]

welcome and :congrats: have fun take it easy on corners till you get used to her :lecturef_smilie: don't go to fast

[TMehaffey]

welcome:congrats:

[Roaddog2]

:2thumbs:welcome:congrats:

[8LEGS]

welcome & :congrats:

[IndyBill]

Thanks Everyone,
Really ready to do this. In my younger years I raced go karts for alot of years and the steering reminds me of that. Got to ride some curves on a test ride but no highway speeds.

NewRider, we want to go to the Ice Cream Social if schedule allows. My wife has a Goldwing trike also. She also liked riding the Spyder so I do not know what I will be on.

Bill

[NewRider]

Thanks Everyone,
Really ready to do this. In my younger years I raced go karts for alot of years and the steering reminds me of that. Got to ride some curves on a test ride but no highway speeds.

NewRider, we want to go to the Ice Cream Social if schedule allows. My wife has a Goldwing trike also. She also liked riding the Spyder so I do not know what I will be on.

Bill

Well, be democratic about it - bring 'em both...;)