Spyder changes coming!

[IdahoMtnSpyder]

I can't comment on some of this but I can comment and have in another post about the startup.

All Spyders with full color screens including the F3-T and Limited with have a long bootup as before. Your source was incorrect on that and a few other things.

Thanks. Fast startup in 2017 maybe?

Both guys I talked to were at the dealers event but like the old story of six blind guys describing an elephant! :dontknow:

My guess from looking at the F3 lineup for 2016, and my conversation with the BRP rep, is that a similar scenario is coming for the RT. A new dramatic variation for a touring model in 2017 or 2018 with the current style continuing and then an F3 type of lineup expansion the following year with the current RT being dropped at that time.

Ain't it fun to take rumors, information, and misinformation, and create a stew of speculations? :yes::yes: Let's all enjoy a bowl of it! hyea:

 

[Fat Baxter]

OK, so the key fob starts the bike remotely. How then do we lock/unlock the saddlebags? Another electric unlocking circuit that may fail, or not work if the battery's dead?

I like things simple. A key is simple.

 

[IdahoMtnSpyder]

OK, so the key fob starts the bike remotely. How then do we lock/unlock the saddlebags? Another electric unlocking circuit that may fail, or not work if the battery's dead?

I like things simple. A key is simple.

The fob doesn't start the bike. It allows the bike to be started with a push button or touch button or something of the sort. He didn't say, and I didn't ask, about the trunk & saddlebags but I suppose it'll be an electric lock. Most of them like on cars and Goldwings are very reliable. I suppose there may be a key also.

 

[900Dave]

The one on their snowmobiles is a two piece unit. One part snaps onto a knob on the sled and can be connected to the rider's arm with a lanyard. There is also a second unit you can keep in your pocket so you don't have to connect the lanyard. If the unit on the sled senses the pocket unit moving away quickly, or moves away several yards, it will kill the engine.


I disagree with this. You are correct about attaching the lanyard. But you can walk as far away as you want with the lanyard attached and it will run and anyone can use the sled. There is no second unit in my pocket (thank god) I have enough stuff to carry. See the pic below, if attached anyone can take off with the sled. The lanyard is programmed for each machine and cannot be used on a different sled just like the key on you Spyder.

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I also have to disagree about the Slingshot! Big Hit in my opinion. The Spyder was out about 4 years until I had actually seen one on the road. I have seen 9 SS's on the road already in there first year and they were all not in my area. I have seen them randomly in the NE & Mid Atlantic states.

 

[IdahoMtnSpyder]

The one on their snowmobiles is a two piece unit. One part snaps onto a knob on the sled and can be connected to the rider's arm with a lanyard. There is also a second unit you can keep in your pocket so you don't have to connect the lanyard. If the unit on the sled senses the pocket unit moving away quickly, or moves away several yards, it will kill the engine.


I disagree with this. You are correct about attaching the lanyard. But you can walk as far away as you want with the lanyard attached and it will run and anyone can use the sled. There is no second unit in my pocket (thank god) I have enough stuff to carry. See the pic below, if attached anyone can take off with the sled. The lanyard is programmed for each machine and cannot be used on a different sled just like the key on you Spyder.

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I also have to disagree about the Slingshot! Big Hit in my opinion. The Spyder was out about 4 years until I had actually seen one on the road. I have seen 9 SS's on the road already in there first year and they were all not in my area. I have seen them randomly in the NE & Mid Atlantic states.

Is yours a Can Am? The fob I saw on the sled in the showroom was about 2" long, longer than the one in your pic. Maybe it's a change on the new machines, or maybe the two piece is coming. In any case, that is what I was told. And then there is the old adage about how can you tell when a salesman is lying! :dontknow:

 

[900Dave]

Is yours a Can Am? The fob I saw on the sled in the showroom was about 2" long, longer than the one in your pic. Maybe it's a change on the new machines, or maybe the two piece is coming. In any case, that is what I was told. And then there is the old adage about how can you tell when a salesman is lying! :dontknow:

Yes! That lanyard is from my 2014 Ski doo Renegade. The purpose of the lanyard is if you happen to come off of the sled the lanyard comes with you and shuts it down. Sure beats a spinning studded track ripping into you body.

It is also good security as the lanyard is programmed for your snowmobile just like the key on your Spyder and no one else with a Ski doo lanyard or without can start it.

2 piece? No need IMO.

 

[IdahoMtnSpyder]

Just remembered this tidbit.

One of the rumored changes coming to the Spyder that I didn't think to include earlier is front wheel drive. No idea if the concept is front wheel drive or all wheel drive.

That may be the next big change for the RT.

 

[Roadster Renovations]

I wish the power steering could be made effort-less under 3-5 MPH. When you are in a parking lot and need to turn the wheels and can't move, turning the wheels is a big job. I know I'm a wimp, and old to boot.
Stan

That would be a nice change. On most new cars they have progressive power steering. The faster you drive the more it dampens the power steering so that you don't overcorrect. BRP could do something like that with the steering on the Spyder.