New to Can Am...

[Delna]

Update: Picked up the Spyder Friday morning, loaded it on the trailer and made it back home late that night. Got up at sunrise and planned on joining some friends for Dee's first outing on her new ride. Our intent was to hang with them as long as she felt comfortable. It took us about an hour to get to the meet up point for our ride, mostly 35-45mph speed zones. I followed her and clinched my teeth as she made her first few curves but she handled them all without issue. By the time we met up with our friends she was well into the swing of things. The ride was scheduled to take us from the west coast of Florida (Clearwater) to the north east coast (St Augustine). We were all set up with Cardo systems so most of the morning consisted of the group, myself included razzing Dee about being a "third wheel". I told her to let me know when she was ready for us to break off from the group and head back home. To my surprise she just kept tooling along with everyone. We had a late lunch in St Augustine then the group headed back west. We arrived home after dark, so in total we were on the bikes over 11 hours and over 400 miles. Not bad for her first outing.

I have several questions but I'll address them in a separate post. Thanks in advance...

 

[AeroPilot]

+2 to IdahoMtn and Johnv50 on taking some time in the parking lot doing the figure 8s and cone drills and panic braking drills. I remember riding our first 11RT home from the dealer and the 25 miles of open road still was an adventure.. but a good one.

My wife spent several hours with little orange disks (Walmart) in a large parking lot a few miles from home -- she now has 180,000 Spyder Myles of Smyles!!

 

[Lin]

Good for her, (and you). It sounds like she has adapted very quickly. It is only going to get better from here. ENJOY!!!!!

 

[IdahoMtnSpyder]

she now has 180,000 Spyder Myles of Smyles!!

Wow! Has she ever been home in all those years and miles? :roflblack: :roflblack:

 

[bikerbillone]

Sounds like a successful ride. Wife Millie will be taking the course in Eustis in late March for her endorsement, we then share the driving duties on our new 2020 RTL, I think that's the way it's gonna work.