Hey Kirk Welcome to the BEST site on the WWW for anything & everything Spyder related
Teddy & I are located in Covington KY, right on the river across from downtown Cincy. We're starting to get a pretty good group of local Spyder Ryders here in the tri-state metro area with new owners joining just about every week it seems. The ONLY local dealer for us as mentioned by Coz is Middletown Cycle located in Franklin Ohio, right up your way I believe. Their a good dealership & Aarron is the owner, a younger guy, but eager to please & build his business. As for a brand new Spyder, proper dealer set-up makes for a good experience or a troubled one, like you discussed in your post. Something as simple as making sure the battery connections are properly tightened, if overlooked, can cause a cascade of problems down the road for the new owner. When the RTs first came to market back in 2010, ours was rushed thru set-up by the dealer in WVA where we bought it & that unit was in the shop more than in our pocession, loved the Spyder, just not that particular unit. Our 2011 RT-S that we have now, has been trouble free for over 24,000 miles in one year now. Can't say enough about the initial dealer set-up, if buying new, ask the dealer to go over the Pre-Delivery Inspection with you, IMHO. If your thinking used, there's usually some great deals here posted on the SpyderLovers ForSale Forum, so that might be a good option to check out. If you'd like to actually talk, feel free to send me a PM & I'll send you my contact info. Also, if you can make SpyderFest in Cuba MO starting April 24th, they will have the BRP demos there & you will see every type of vendor & mod imiganable, not to mention Len & Cowtown are doing some great deals for SpyderFest as well. Good Luck, do your homework, but be careful, as these machines are EXTREMELY ADDICTIVE & once bitten, game over, you gotta have one:yes::yes::yes: