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This summer I'll be heading across South Dakota on a 6 hour trip. The speed limit on I-90 in South Dakota is 80 MPH. Assuming a typical summer day with temperatures ranging from 80F to 90F and keeping my speed at 80 MPH except for pit-stops...the Spyder (engine wise) should be just fine, right? Most of my riding experience last summer had me peak out at 70 MPH and just for a couple hours a trip. I'd appreciate any input from experienced Spyder riders. I still feel like a rookie having owned my 2017 RT Limited for just a year now.
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On my trip out west last summer I maintained speeds of 85-100 mph for a couple hours at a time (anytime the interstate was on my route) with no issues. This was on a 2012 RS 998.
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Originally Posted by BryanSD
This summer I'll be heading across South Dakota on a 6 hour trip. The speed limit on I-90 in South Dakota is 80 MPH. Assuming a typical summer day with temperatures ranging from 80F to 90F and keeping my speed at 80 MPH except for pit-stops...the Spyder (engine wise) should be just fine, right? Most of my riding experience last summer had me peak out at 70 MPH and just for a couple hours a trip. I'd appreciate any input from experienced Spyder riders. I still feel like a rookie having owned my 2017 RT Limited for just a year now.
Gas mileage will take a kick in the pants, but other than that, no problem.
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Not a problem. I have done it a few times but on my RS sm5 so will not venture to say what your milage will be mine averaged 33mpg's
Gene and Ilana De Laney
Mt. Helix, California
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Thanks for the replies. My personal comfort level is 70 MPH but my wife is an 80+ MPH gal pushing the limits whether she's driving or a passenger. Needless to say, I'll be doing 80 MPH this summer.
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Originally Posted by BryanSD
Thanks for the replies. My personal comfort level is 70 MPH but my wife is an 80+ MPH gal pushing the limits whether she's driving or a passenger. Needless to say, I'll be doing 80 MPH this summer.
Listen to your wife.
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Set the cruise and don't fall asleep.
Ray
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Originally Posted by CMA Cowboy
Set the cruise and don't fall asleep.
Funny you mention that, my wife and I are newbies to motorcycle/CanAm riding and she mentioned a few times how relaxing it is and she feels herself falling asleep. That has me a little worried
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Heh heh
My first thought on your post was to add a seatbelt from rear hand hold to rear hand hold....sorry, couldn't resist...
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Originally Posted by BryanSD
Thanks for the replies. My personal comfort level is 70 MPH but my wife is an 80+ MPH gal pushing the limits whether she's driving or a passenger. Needless to say, I'll be doing 80 MPH this summer.
Do yourself, your wife, your gas mileage, your eyeballs, and your psyche a favor and ride the parallel state roads such as Hwy 38. You'll lose some time but you'll more than make up for it in a more relaxed ride at a slower pace and and much better scenery to look at! And the wife won't be able to push you to ride at 80 since the speed limit will probably max out at 70!
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Originally Posted by IdahoMtnSpyder
Do yourself, your wife, your gas mileage, your eyeballs, and your psyche a favor and ride the parallel state roads such as Hwy 38. You'll lose some time but you'll more than make up for it in a more relaxed ride at a slower pace and and much better scenery to look at! And the wife won't be able to push you to ride at 80 since the speed limit will probably max out at 70!
Exactly we always stay off the interstates, we google map and avoid them you guys are going to think we are siissies but 65 is top spped for us even if we have to do interstates. we relax when we ride. Our trip down to chatanooga the other day was beautiful the backroads down here are 4 lane limited access roads hardly any traffic. I understand wanting to get to point B as fast as you can but speed does kill, wont get graphic but 37 years as a first responder you see a lot Thanks guys
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Originally Posted by Fire34
Exactly we always stay off the interstates, we google map and avoid them you guys are going to think we are siissies but 65 is top spped for us even if we have to do interstates. we relax when we ride. Our trip down to chatanooga the other day was beautiful the backroads down here are 4 lane limited access roads hardly any traffic. I understand wanting to get to point B as fast as you can but speed does kill, wont get graphic but 37 years as a first responder you see a lot Thanks guys
Dave
Good points. We are soon moving to Arkansas...and will be a short distance from beautiful Ozark mountain rides. Looking forward to slowing down and smelling the roses.
Our comfort zone has always been no more than 5 mph above posted. When I get to 70 posted (rare here), we still do about 65 or a bit less.
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Is she riding or driving? My wife has fallen asleep on the back of our RTL several times. Never an issue as I'm big, outweigh her 2X, and she's back behind me and between armrests just as snug as a bug in a rug. She usually wakes up when I downshift.
Back to the OP's concern. I rode my '13 from Faribault, MN to Wall and back for an IBA SS1K and my mileage at 80+ was at the low end of my normal Mileage when averaged both ways.
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Ha! My wife usually wakes up when her helmet hits the back of mine.
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When that happens I get bit by wife. I am knocking the rhinestones off her brain bucket. T Totoally unacceptable.
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The issue won’t be with your Spyder but more likely with you and your passenger. Keeping cool and hydrated is the thing you need to be concerned about, your Spyder will not have a problem.
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Most I've done at that speed is about 4 hours in TX, 1 up. I ride a 2012 RTSE5 with the 998 engine. I have not noticed any drop in gas mileage due to higher speed, only stop-n-go traffic. I suspect this would be more of an issue with more weight (ex 2 up) and mountain riding (due to elevation changes). Take an oil refill and check it more often. You will likely burn a bit more.
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If you don't want to pound the interstate you can drop down to hwy 44 or come up to hwy14 and get a more scenic route and relax at 70. Just a thought
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Originally Posted by kamper
If you don't want to pound the interstate you can drop down to hwy 44 or come up to hwy14 and get a more scenic route and relax at 70. Just a thought
44 through the badlands definitely won’t be 70. Very uneven road, I have a hard time driving that fast in the work van. Very scenic though.
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Try it......BEFORE the trip, especially if you still have the OEM tires.
I finally got mine aligned and it moved the instability from 45 to 70, roughly.
Now I'm looking at a new set of tires.
I'm also going to test drive a Goldwing trike tomorrow.
I'm REALLY getting tired of fighting the engineering defects in this Spyder.
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I did a 3200 mile 7 day trip down thru the Smokey Mountains and was never below 75 the entire time. The 1330 is geared to take it with the 6 speed, I would never do it with the 998 because it would cook the hell out of you.
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Just to say it again, the Veskimo has been a saviour to me. The heat gets me down really badly. It's a heart thing. Block ice over cubes lasts way longer... But hard to find block ice any more... And, yes, there are many much cheaper way to stay cool.
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I ride alone daily and spend about 60 miles going 60 speed limit and at times 65 when traffic is moving faster, when my wife and I travel by motorhome we trailer our spyder all over the country from Va to Ca, Florida to Maine, Az to Montana.
And we will be leaving for another 7000 mile Motorhome trip in late May, buy the spyder will be are main ride for three months, we have 2012 RT and we have at times tested a couple tanks of gas with a set cruise of 80 thru South Dakota getting to Sturgis.
But its funny that people talk about mpg lost at high speeds. But I found that the time travel was no faster after 250 miles at trying to maintain 80 over 70, mostly due to traffic, and yes a extra full stops on longer trips.
I guess when I think about "traveling" by motorhome now I'm going on the slow side with the speed limit, or at times below. So when we are two up on spyder the posted speed limit is calm and stress free.
Don't think i don't remember those "Lane Splitting day while riding with my father on his 1970 Moto Guzzi California thru the L.A. California traffic at the time. In those days he would split the lane at highway speeds, he would just tap my knee letting me know to pull them in sit still.
But today at 58, my older brother rides a BMW 1600 GTL, while my younger brother rides his Goldwing, three nephews have bikes, Im just glad my parents didn't get killed on HWY 1 , Cabrillo Hwy.
Just hate to hear about any riders lost due to speed, thats the one thing WE CAN CONTROL.... our speed
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