View Poll Results: When your rear tyre aquaplanes
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Tail swings to the Left
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Tail swings to the Right
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Don't ride in the wet
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RT 2010-2019 - When your rear aquaplanes which way does your RT Swing?
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With the original tire it could go either way depending on conditions.
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Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie
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Rain?
Well, Generally I don't Ryde in the
rain.
Why, because it is not what I enjoy doing.
I have been out ryding and got caught in a rain shower.
The rear tire can and does slide well left or right.
Not something I want to be doing but you never know
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if I open the garage door and it raining or snowing, I take the truck otherwise I ride and the few time I got caught in the rain it would spin in a straight line and that was on the 09, the 2020 hasn't seen any wet weather
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I'm relatively new to Spyders, since May of 2022. I have been caught in the rain several times, and I have to agree with Peter. I have had slippage in both directions at speed depending on road conditions, direction of travel, etc. I have also experienced a little straight line slippage in the wet, but that may have been my fault twisting the throttle.
If you don't mind, askitee, what is the reason for the poll?
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I have never had a rear tire Aquaplane
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Originally Posted by Jesster72
If you don't mind, askitee, what is the reason for the poll?
I have the same question.
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My way of thinking is, don't out ride the conditions, so myself I have never slid because I SLOWED down!
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I thought it was nigh impossible for a rear tyre to Aquaplane.
Loose traction - slip - yep but Aquaplane.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRlNC6ZTn3g
Last edited by Peter Aawen; 03-31-2023 at 06:50 PM.
Reason: neigh (horse sound) - nigh (nearly...) ;-)
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Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie
Last edited by Peter Aawen; 03-31-2023 at 06:50 PM.
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It depends. There really is no logical way to answer this question.
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Originally Posted by BLUEKNIGHT911
Well everyone knows " if it's on the Internet " it must be true !!!!! .......... ..... JMHO .... Mikle
Whatever. ............ JMHO .... Iso
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Neither; I'm smart enough to slow down when conditions dictate.
Last edited by cruisinTX; 04-01-2023 at 08:39 AM.
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I earlier posted I thought it was nigh on impossible for the rear tyre to Aquaplane.
Not impossible but very hard to do I guess is what I meant.
I have ridden my F3 for about for about 30 minutes through a fast moving violent squall on 1 trip.
Literally tipped water out of my boots later on.
It was like what I call wall of water from above, standing water here and there and violent wind gusts.
I backed it off some but continued on my way.
I dont recall any traction problems at all.
Seems its not unheard of at all if you ride a Can Am Spyder.
Has been the subject of earlier discussions from more than a decade ago.
A known possible problem in the right conditions.
Naturally wet conditions, standing water, combined with a lightweight machine and rather large rear tyre and high speed seems to be the catalysis.
Quite surprised some long time members have not mentioned that at all.
Known problem.......
So the info.
Here is a sample of what im on about, 1 of a few decade or so old post.
https://www.spyderlovers.com/forums/...Is-it-an-issue
So there you have it, a heads up for me and possibly some others.
Last edited by Isopedella; 04-01-2023 at 11:14 AM.
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Originally Posted by FrogmanDave
I have the same question.
I took a trip up North of here and it poured the whole trip (about 3 hours), at times reduced to 70km/hr. My '17 RTL always swings to the right, it doesn't pull me off the direction of travel. Now that I'm used to it, it is less of a heartstopper. With the Kendas and Arachnid, it was a lottery for how it swung.
We bumped into 3 Spyders at a fuel stop that night: two had bikes that also swung right, and the 3rd was unpredictable (he had Kenda's, the others didn't). We had a bit of a laugh about it and generally felt knowing which way had it's pluses.
I was curious to see how other bikes behaved. It would be interesting to add tyre brands/types wish I had thought of that. I was sitting overlooking the ocean and thought of the poll. If anyone wants to create one feel free
Yes, I agree that slowing down is the solution, but sometimes you'll come across of bit of road where it's not easy to determine if that's water "troughing" in a tyre groove or a bit of smooth tar, and at night it's just that little bit harder. I'm not going to stay home just because its raining - we used the same logic when on two wheels - the more you rode the more experience you gained dealing with poor conditions or sudden surprises. We would see lesser riders come unstuck in the simplest of obstacles thrown in their way.
Last edited by askitee; 04-03-2023 at 03:13 AM.
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