I have a few Ryker Questions before I purchase.

[SportsterDoc]

" Off road " .... I beg to differ about the Spyder either a GS / RSS or RT .... I live and ride mostly in Vermont ( now ) and at least 1/3 on my riding is on gravel roads .... I put a BELT Guard on for peace of mind, and my 66,000 mi OEM looks great ..... Mike

Belt drive did not prevent me from taking my Sportsters on dirt roads, such as fire roads, but with care in gravel sections.

But even with the rally and 400 mm front shocks, it is not an off-road vehicle.

It would do fine on sections like this:

15-Muddy Springs-5 Oct 2017.jpg

But clearance and traction would be an issue on some/many forest service roads, such as these

3-Red Rock Canyon Rocky Gap Road 29 Sep 2017.jpg

8-Upper Joe May Road 3 Oct 2017.jpg

A few hundred yards on Rocky Gap would end the exploring on a Ryker and probably not even that distance on Upper Joe May.
Uphill traction on gravel is a challenge.

[Zoot]

Regarding cargo carrying, Can-Am also offer a single hard-side bag (pannier) which could be handy. IIRC it's about 36L capacity?

[Tucker01]

There is a learning program built in to the ryker . You need to put it in sport mode or eco off mode or eco mode . It will goooo . Ryker 900 sport will go roughly 90+ because it has a speed limiter .

[braye1960]

So if you saw my welcome post or even if you didn't the thing is Yesterday me and My Mom drove by and looked at a dealership for Can-Am. Originally she was looking at getting a Spyder but they were out of them at the moment. What they did have was a very nice looking Ryker Rally that my mom fell in love with. She was dead set on getting one but had other stuff right this second we need to deal with. So after leaving we realized there was a few questions we actually didn't ask. I proceeded to look it up online but came up with the exact same answer every last time. This would make it seem like that was the answer but I really really hope its not or that would mean we wouldn't be buying one.

My main question is what's the top speed? Everywhere I look says 56MPH and provides this statement


Now if you can tell from the quote that has nothing to do with the top speed just the learning key limiting the speed to 56 MPH. My first 5 search returns all look to say the same exact thing. Once I know the answer to this it will allow me to make a better decision on if Me and my Mom want to buy two of these.

I live in South Dakota, the speed limit on the interstate is 80 MPH. I have no problem reaching and maintaining that speed.